So my goal is to complete a Viking costume by Halloween. Not one of those store-bought, plastic helmet with horns costumes. No, a decent personally-sewn, wool and leather and bronze and steel, (reasonably) historically-accurate Viking costume. I'm willing to make some concessions. I might run out of resources for a mail hauberk or helmet by my deadline, but I'm pretty sure I can get the average daily-wear outfit together by then.
The trick is to make as much of it myself as I can. So to that end, I've already made a few orders for supplies and instructional material. From time-to-time, you should see some updates on various parts of the project. So watch this space. In the meantime, you can look back for posts on some parts I already have together, like my battle axe, my sax, and the shield I made a couple of years ago.
So does this make me a LARPing geek? Yeah, probably. So what? Everyone's got their thing; at least I'm not wasting the money on crack. When complete, this should be a pretty awesome arts-and-crafts project.
4 comments:
Just found your blog. Fantastic name!
Well, it's no Theidric the Obscure, but the name will do.
So what's the deal? Are you an SCA member, re-enactor, fanboy?
BTW, I haven't been as careful about updating my blog on a regular basis as I could/should be. One of the reasons I made this public vow to create a Viking kit was to establish a theme for this year. I will try to update my progress as I go.
Since you're a new reader, this is a good opportunity to explain that the blog is about whatever I happen to be interested in at the time. There are some themes that run throughout it, but I don't always stay on point.
You should create a Viking costume for your sifu. He'd probably love it.
Yes, my sifu probably would appreciate that. And doing so wouldn't be all that difficult.
But I would need his measurements. I guess I'll have to get him the checklist so he can provide them.
It'll be up to him, however, to supply the shoes and belts and weapons, etc. I can certainly point him in the right direction for those accessories.
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