Nicely done!

(And *gosh* is 2" a wide belt. That's massive. )

VERY COOL - thank you for that other link! .... you mention rain. If rain comes while the burn is underway, does that affect things? Or since its all sealed up anyhow, does it not matter? Is there any rule of thumb for how long a burn takes - and how long does a mound after the fire's done for that ...

Particularly, the art of making charcoal from wood - basically the same thing we do with our little charring tins, but on a bonfire scale. I've read about it of course, and looked at videos as well: Tales from the Green Valley has a wonderful presentation of the process. 964WDzOyrks https://www.yout...

Cool! I'm seeing this one in an entirely new light after finding out about the Loch Glashan satchel.

Fun seeing how some solutions just keep coming up over the millennia.

Just found this little snippet in Tom Simon's "Writing Down the Dragon and other essays, On the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy" The people of Hador were of what we should describe as a Scandinavian type; they were nearly all tall, blue-eyed and fair haired... The people of Bëor .....

Cool! The pattern is very nicely rendered - I assume that's the laser machine you've talked about? I assume you do the design yourself in some kind of vector package? I'm curious about where the strap is riveted to the "panel" holding the scabbard. Is that rivet to allow for kind of freedo...

Really liking the Rus vibe.


SO SO SO much better than WETA's bizarre Holland approach.

Setting it in the Second Age certainly leaves a lot more room for the kind of "palace intrigue" plots that made GoT successful. On the one hand I can't say I'm particularly optimistic given what the Hobbit films and Shadow of Mordor seem to say for the priorities of those holding the IP an...

Last thing re: cast iron. I dug up the pictures of WETA's stab at Dwarven cast iron: merf-weta-dwarven-kettles.jpg It looks like the original sketches were pretty fleshed out, but in the end in production constraints meant they just customized some off-the-shelf cast iron. Hardly anything to complai...

Awesome - I LOVE LOVE LOVE the lines! :mrgreen: I've a couple thoughts, but there's so little information to go by that this is just my own vague aesthetic guesses, so please feel free to ignore it. I could be so wrong. Biggest thing - since you're redoing the trim on the wool tunic anyhow - do you ...

Oh! One last thing about waterskins. Ursus has a good post on overhauling those commercial botas to look more "rangery" here - http://middleearthrangers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3920 http://middleearthrangers.org/forum/download/file.php?id=2227 If you want to go whole hog traditi...

More thoughts about pots/kettles: Leaving aside unique eBay finds, antique store finds, etc - Since our version of "historical trekking" springs mostly from 18th century historical trekking hobby of a generation or so ago, we've sort of inherited the copper corn boiler as a default trekkin...

Cool! I think you have a fantastic start! Don't have time at the moment for a full review, but a few thoughts - Backpack: looks fantastically functional. IF it matters, we've found that backpacks/knapsacks don't tend to work well with back quivers, and for the most part have settled on some combinat...

Hunh.

Passing thought - do you think Laketown might have been inspired to some extent by crannog settlements?
Those might be worth mining for possible "looks kinda like the drawing" structures.

Happy birthday Ranger!!