I am now in Argentina

Hi all we have all arrived safley in Argentina. the key board I am using is missing the symbols for many letters and it includes some I don´t have on my normal one. :-( like ñçº and ¿? :-D

More pics of the Tournament

Ok here are some more pics this time no figs but a backdrop :-D

Path goes off into the forest

same pic but different angle. Which angle is better?

what a poor person would see

what a poor person would see if he started a riot against the nobility 

some tents and the quintain

view from the campfire

the last few tents and another path leading off into the forest

Well hope you enjoyed this finnal post before I leave. This is the finnal one I promis. :-D I'll resist the urge to post more stuff

Tournament Project Finnished

Here it is long awaited by many here for your viewing. :-D

The not so grand grand stand in all it's grandure :-P

The quintain and some tents

I am trying out my new camera. It has 10 megapixels so this out of focus shot is my fault not it's

The foreground shows the rich peoples stands and in the distance an area behind the guard rail for the riff raff

Look at this knight isn't he moving fast

This one ain't

The herald

The trumpetures

ref and guard

a peasant rushing in trying not to miss the tournament

The loverly ladies and their poor old father

Banners

now onto the duels...

Knight A with huge spooky eyes

The man who has to break up the fights. i would not wan't his job

Knight B who is slightly scared by Knight A's eyes

The cleaner attending to his duties by his masters tent

The quintain

The whole Joust

The whole Tournament grounds

I hpoe you have enjoyed this project as much as I have. :-) I am off on the 14th of January on a school spanish trip to Argentina. I am gone for 14 days accompanied by 14 girls and my father a great leader of school trips, He famously (in Korea) co-lead the first European school trip to South Korea, also we have my very funny profesora de Espanol (female spanish teacher) who is actualy german, go figure. So I hope to have lots of pics to show you though they are a bit out of place here. :-D

See you all again soon....Gowan

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It is done...........All I need is to replace the batteries in the camera and tomorrow I shall post the pics of it

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Ok after much trial and error mostly error here is the first finnished tent

more tents on the way I hope that I can reach my Jan 13 deadline or else we will all have to wait another 2 weeks

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The Tents are going up :-D

Just to show scale for you

Pauls plans...My attempts

can you imagine what it will look like once done

Well it may not be much progress but it is a preview

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Ok nearly there I guess here we are then so close to the finnish line yet so far.

The grand stand with the shields of the nobels on top

Banners displaying the Heraldry of the great knights taking part

a campfire

The whole grounds from a birds or giants perspective

the small ruin

the not so small ruin

and an exit or entrance.

Hope you like this project as much as I do and I hope that it will be done soom. Next up I will add some knights tents using  Pauls tutorial on how to make Medieval tents. It is very good and I give my thanks to you paul for all those loverly tutorials you post on your blog :-D