Texas Renaissance Festival- weekend of 11/17/18
Okay, this is my fifth time trying to type this post out. Tumblr mobile keeps eating it so I moved the pictures to my desktop (which I literally just got up and running) so I could try to make this megapost happen.
We’re going back to TRF on the weekend of the 17th and I finally got some garb to go with the crappy leather armor I put together a few years ago.
Thai fisherman’s pants can be bought on amazon for like ten bucks and they’re perfect. The tunic was like...$18? It’s a tad short on the length and 2x is the largest size made so it’ll have to do. I can wear my pants at my actual waist and tuck them into my boots.
When I put this outfit together a few years ago I attempted to make a cosplay great club out of a dowel rod and some of that insulation foam. It....didn’t work out anywhere near as well as I would have liked so I trashed it. The....batlle skirt? posted below....I like it, but the back is alternating strips of red and black leather kind of like a gladiator’s outift and I’m now in love with it. I have some smaller sheets of chainmail a friend gave me forever ago that I’m thinking I might cut up and hang down on top of some of the leather; give it more of a “I pulled most of this off a dead guy and threw it together.” look.
I’d like to finish this costume out with a tetsubo/kabano like the Shugoki guy in “For Honor”...
...but I’ll either have to break down and make one (read:find a friend with a woodshop) orrrrrrrr.....I found a video online of a guy making one and he used these hammer drive screws as the rivets on the bashing end of the club and I already have the cudgel....so I might just hammer a bunch of metal heads into the cudgel. Just to give it a “nice armor, let me crumple it.” feel.
The last thing I had planned might get put on hold. I had set up to go to a friend’s shop last night but my daughter is sick and I opted to stay home and give the wife a break instead of the former. I’m going to attempt to make a Hank drum to have around the campfire and make everything feel more caravan-y. Basically, its a propane tank that you chop up, cut a bunch of tongues into one side (and then tune them for god knows how long) and then weld the two ends of the tank back together to make a UFO looking drum.
I have a week to get back out to his shop and It’s on my way home from work, I just have to make sure I can get it done. I might have access to all the tools to do the cutting and tuning etc and then just run by his place next week so he can teach me how to weld it back together. I’m pretty sure I’m going to try and tune it to a C# Celtic Minor scale. (see below, this one’s in D but the same scale)
Will keep the blog updated if I end up making the drum this week. If you happen to see this and have any pointers on the drum making process, I’m all ears.
