Projects and a Scout

Going on scout tomorrow in Ranger kit and clothing. :) It is basically my hike on Mount Toby but in appropriate outfit with skill practices and whatnot. I will see about some pics. I do have one pic, taken with the timer, the first time I used it, and I look utterly horrible and not a little silly in it, but I will put it here as a base point from which to measure improvements.

As you can see, I am looking toward the camera as I did not have any notion of exactly where in the field I would be. You can clearly see the fat broad here, even though I am a lot less fat than I was three months ago.

Anyway, these are my baseline images. While it does not show well in the photos, the tunic is actually green and the pants are beige. The vague bow in my hand is my ash longbow with horn nocks, a traditional D section made for me some years ago.

Tomorrow I ought to be wearing either black pants or the beige ones again, a black tunic, and of course the black hood..unless I reverse it out for the green side, which I might do. Same quiver, different pouches, probably a different bow.

I am currently working on a new tunic, a green Norman style tunic with keyhole neck opening, short sleeved, and black hosen/pants...probably more like the footed Thorsberg sort than not. Not going for precise here, just for works.

A new quiver is under way as well, this one is being designed to go with the blanket roll and shoulder bags and/or pack. I am experimenting here and it will be documented here as I go along and as I have the time.

A new hood is also in the works; one without dags. ;)

Nai i-Valar tiralyë.

Eledhwen