I made a halter for my Chex resin. He may be naked, but he looks nice in a halter. And it even has his name on it! 🙂
My next project is scaling my saddle patterns. So draw…draw…paper…paper…snip…snip…snip.
A Halter For A Naked Resin
Running The Ring
After the introduction, one of the ‘games’ the knights did was running the ring.
The riders rode down the line with a lance.
A ‘squire’ held the ring in his hand.
The goal of the run was to end up with a ring on the lance.
Interesting stuff when looking up info:
The Medieval Tournament by R. Coltman Clephan said the lance was 10 ft 7 inches. That’d be fun to scale down. Also according to the book, Running The Ring was a later form of the quintain.
The RoundTable Productions website said the quintain was a training tool for a jousting knight.
I Unicorn
Another part of the opening part of the jousting that I liked was the grey unicorn.
While I really liked the queen’s dress( I love gold and purple combinations) and her ability to do an awesome job as being a queen, the horse she rode caught my attention too.
The bridle was very interesting.
But who wouldn’t want to ride a unicorn? Even if it wasn’t a real one. 🙂
At Dawn, The Ladies Ride
One of my favorite things last night was watching the jousting by Round Table Productions. But before the jousting started, the ladies took the stage (err–arena).
The Queen entered first.
Then her ladies followed. At the end of the jousting they rode around again.
They all rode side saddle, so that was a cool effect.
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| The Queen said something along the line that side saddles don’t hinder the ability for them to ride any less than an astride person. She was right and wasn’t messing around in showing so. |
One lady did not ride, but instead led her horse around so everyone could see the saddle, which was an English Side Saddle.
Kristian Beverly 