So, how are the preparations going for everyone?
I've done a really good job of ignoring it, with the "I still have a couple of months to prepare" mentality. Well, those months are down to weeks now.
I haven't built any furniture yet. I'm thinking I may try to quickly make a simple table and weapon rack.
I bought some chests earlier in the year, but I think they need some internal reinforcing. This may take some work. We'll see if I get to it in time. Otherwise I just have to be really careful with them (these are the same ones I took to VARF this spring).
I need to finish painting the Teutonic shield, and hopefully the kettle helm too (which I have to start over).
I ordered a few more accessories to flesh out my feast gear some more. Over the course of the year I got a few more garb accessories too, in the form of more period-looking pouches, the viking leathercrafts shoes, some belts, etc.
I'm OK on the tent itself, and its parts. I haven't been able to put it up to test this, but my hope is to use the walls to section it in half, and make one end of it the internal, closed-off sleeping and storage area, and the other open for display. So far I really only have my chairs, chests, and weapons/armor to show off.
I'm still not 100% certain which kits are going. I figured c.1250 for sure, but I haven't circled back on fitting the mail. I think it'll work as-is, it just could be better. c.1300 can still work with the same mail, and c.1350 can now work as well. Plus my 15th. plate could go. Heck, I could throw it all in the truck and mix-and-match. But lugging three or four kits worth of armor could be a pain.
For camping accommodations in the tent, I have a couple of folding cots. I figure a cot and a sleeping bag is probably good enough. I'm not going to make my camping supplies part of the display, I don't have time or space to build anything better for that.
What else should we be thinking about?
And I figure we can coordinate and cooperate a bit too, especially if our tents are co-located.