How do you all feel about our hobby? Who thinks that reenacting and vehicle collecting/ restoring are all part of the same thing.
Recent posts indicate a feeling among many that the two are linked and that is the way the hobby has developed. Others feel, myself amongst them, that they are two distinct but mutually compatable hobbies.
This is not an attempt to create a them and us argument, I have no problem with either viewpoint or indeed interest but I have been surprised at some of the comments.
I suppose as my vehicle collecting/restoring goes back to the early 1980s, a time when reenactors were seen by most to be playing at soldiers and indeed, many of their vehicles were obviously just another prop for the battle. I know they have moved on a great deal since then and strive to have everything right but I don't see them as MV collectors in the main.
I still think it's a little odd to want to live out a weekend or whatever in a living history display and the Germans in the woods at Beltring always leave me shaking my head a little but that's just my view! Not because they portray Germans but just that they want to do it in the first place.
As I have said before and indeed photos on here will show, I am quite prepared to wear an appropriate style of dress in a parade or arena but that's as far as it goes for me. I have worked with groups who take great efforts to 'do it right' and I respect them for it.
Am I a dinosaur?
Your thoughts please.