With the visit to the Royal Armouries, the main thing I wanted to visit was the special exhibition for this year featuring the Mongolian Empire and Genghis Khan.
But, and I know any American people reading this will scoff, I wanted to make the visit a full day, being just under an hours drive up the motorway from home.
Also just having a day out with the Mrs was a bonus, so we were making the most of it.
The Royal Armouries at Leeds has five floors of arms and armour displayed, re-enactment zones, sword fighting and other displays in a full arena on the second floor, and around Easter Weekend every year they host a Jousting Tournament (I am hoping to get time off work next year for that).
Coming out of the Mongolian Exhibition, on the fourth floor is the African and Asian galleries...most interesting.
These are the photo's I took going round the Samurai gallery, before the Mrs had to pull me away so we could see other things...
But, and I know any American people reading this will scoff, I wanted to make the visit a full day, being just under an hours drive up the motorway from home.
Also just having a day out with the Mrs was a bonus, so we were making the most of it.
The Royal Armouries at Leeds has five floors of arms and armour displayed, re-enactment zones, sword fighting and other displays in a full arena on the second floor, and around Easter Weekend every year they host a Jousting Tournament (I am hoping to get time off work next year for that).
Coming out of the Mongolian Exhibition, on the fourth floor is the African and Asian galleries...most interesting.
These are the photo's I took going round the Samurai gallery, before the Mrs had to pull me away so we could see other things...
I've not got much to write about the various armour sets, as if you zoom in on the photo's you can read the various descriptions from the plaques in the displays.
I did however treat myself to some research material, as one of the projects I want to begin working on again soon is the Samurai project.
The last time I visited Element Games with the group, I was hoping to get a game of Dragon Rampant and took along two forces to enable this.
Unfortunately, no-one wanted to play, so I didn't get the game in.
Instead I grabbed some terrain from the shelves there and made an impromptu photo setup and grabbed the following:
So the aim is to work on finishing a unit of the World Eaters alongside a unit for the Samurai, clearing the table and adding to the forces.
I think I'll work on the foot Samurai I have first for this project and then see what we need from there.
I'm waiting for the MyMiniFactory money off sales before I purchase any more STLs from Kyoushuneko for this project, as they've released a lot more since I last bought some...they now have a Mounted Sohei unit!!!!!!!
I have one more post for the Royal Armouries to do yet, featuring the photos of the European and islamic arms and armour I saw, including the Armoured Elephant, always a big draw.
Until next time, have nice day...
