Dragon*Con 2006 Sept. 1-4
POSTED BY: monkeytail
UPDATED: Saturday, May 20, 2006 15:30
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Ooh, that reminds me, I must email Kelly!
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Right! no masks. booze and fruit will be plenty. you could do well with leather working. Selling at renn faires and well, other types of places, You can study the bracers and flogger to see how they're made, and I plan to pick up a few more toys before D*C.
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Ah, self taught. Now I feel really bad.
The major obsticles i'm (oh lets face it, using as an excuse) finding, are -
Space - I seem to barely have enough room to sew, not having enough money to move out and get a place where I can get fabric spread out for cutting and my machine set up without dog/cats/brothers and small children threatening to maim it and themselves, and make the necessary mess with out my mother looking at me like I just plunged a knife in her heart is getting to be a real serious pain in the ass. At the moment, the only space I i'm allowed to inhabit freely is 'my' bedroom, in the almost 4m sq room I have so much furniture struggling inadequetly to contain stuff that used to be spread over my entire home, that I literally have to climb into the room and use a set path to be able to get into bed. If I want to use the work table, I have to move everything off it and put it on the bed, If I want to get to my store cupboard, I have to move the work table. We don't even have an outside space I could use without everything I own being stolen.
Money - believe it or not, I wouldn't have the faintest idea where I could buy stuff like leather, I knew in london, but not up north, I can't even locate a decent source for braiding in this area. Car bonnets are easy, but the tools and transport are not.
Information - I've scoured libraries, even thought there are plenty of book on armour, no one stocks any practical guides, Amazon I gave up on. All of the groups I can hear of and get information on are southern, I've heard of one leather craftsman in the area, but no matter how many leads I get, no answer.
and probably most importantly.
Nerve - I'm scared of starting and it all going swiftly down the crapper. I want to learn from someone who can teach me where I'm going wrong, even if it involves being sniggered at. I can't learn from books, i can't process the information. You could write me an essay on a flat fell stitch, and i'd never get it. Someone actually puts a seam in front of me and I've got it instantly.
But it is something to bear in mind. I think its just going to get to the point where I go crazy in that dead job and either become a screaming vagabond and not care anymore, or runaway and just find something worthwile to do.
When I say that I need to find someone to marry for their money, most of the time i'm not kidding.
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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ok, sorry, I said iwasn't going to moan, and I did.
What ithink I meant to say before the whinging started was If you could actually build a foot high candy flinging trebuchet, then we'd be coming to find you!
that would be so cool.
And yes, signs, maybe even sign posts, are going to be a necesary thing.
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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Hi Tristan
We'll be looking forward to meeting you. You can tell Browncoats by their Browncoat support ribbon pin or their badge holder lanyards that say Firefly Browncoat Serenity. It's a dead giveaway. Don't forget to bring them Browncoats! But I will have more for sale if you happen to forget 
Does anyone know if there will be a Firefly Fan table? There's no movie to tout (yet) and all the swag is gone from 'Versal.
I aim to misbehave!
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Originally posted by fireflygal:
Does anyone know if there will be a Firefly Fan table? There's no movie to tout (yet) and all the swag is gone from 'Versal.
I have no doubt there will be. The Southeast Browncoats have a meeting this Saturday to discuss plans for Dragon Con.
I'll provide details as I hear about them on their site.
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...London...north of London...."bonnet", not car hood...Seryn, I am going to go out on a limb here and guess you do not live in the Continental United States. That is going to make it difficult to apprentice you...as I live in Alabama. Oh, well, there is always the internet.
I started out leather work in college, in an apartment about the same size as a postage stamp. The entire apartment consisted of a bed, a bathroom, a very tiny kitchen, and my hobby. Once a month, I would save money and travel to Birmingham to Tandy leather to buy scraps and tools to learn with. Being a Drama major, and a costumer, I eventually earned the right to use their workshops and Costume shop. That is when I really began to teach myself and learn from the Costume professor. This was also back when not everyone had access to the internet, but we did have a twelve-story library that happened to have quite a selection of books on arms and armor. That is where the metal-working came in. My parents lived close enough to the college that I was able to go home on weekends to work with all the power tools there (and completely took over the garage in the process). I am also lucky enough to have developed a working friendship with a local iron works, and get my sheet steel at their cost. As for technique, that sort of developed along the way. I would see pictures of pieces I wanted to make, and then just hammered the steel until it looked like I wanted it to. My early stuff is VERY rough, but I am getting better at finishing them off.
All I can say to begin with for leather work is get what scraps you can and play. Are you interested in the construction part, the decoration (carving, etc), or a little of both? There are always articles to be found on leather armor construction and decoration, and many of these techniques can be translated into other types of leatherwork.
Yes, they both require time and money, but the payoff, in a beautiful, practical piece, is worth the effort. 
If you are interested, I will dig through my bookmarks and see what I still have for links.
As far as the trebuchet goes...maybe a foot-high catapult would be a little more practical. I will see if I can squezze it into the insane build schedule I have set for myself before DragonCon!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
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fireflygal, I am going to have to get my hands on one of those lanyards...I don't think I will be able to put a pin through the armor...I am going to guess that one of the links at the bottom of your post will lead me to them, right?
I look forward to seeing all of you there as well, and meeting my new "extended" family!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
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Originally posted by Tristan:
fireflygal, I am going to have to get my hands on one of those lanyards...I don't think I will be able to put a pin through the armor...I am going to guess that one of the links at the bottom of your post will lead me to them, right?
I look forward to seeing all of you there as well, and meeting my new "extended" family!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
You bet Tristan, OutToTheBlack is the best place to go, although if you love Our Captain, check out the fillies site :)
I aim to misbehave!
Firefly items:
For lapel pins and badge holder lanyards
e-mail FireflyGal1@hotmail.com
www.outtotheblack.com
www.cafepress.com/fillies
www.cafepress.com/fireflyflan
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:Quote:
Originally posted by fireflygal:
Does anyone know if there will be a Firefly Fan table? There's no movie to tout (yet) and all the swag is gone from 'Versal.
I have no doubt there will be. The Southeast Browncoats have a meeting this Saturday to discuss plans for Dragon Con.
I'll provide details as I hear about them on their site.
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Excellent BC1, a place to congregate! How'd Autumn do in her contest?
I aim to misbehave!
Firefly items:
For lapel pins and badge holder lanyards
e-mail FireflyGal1@hotmail.com
www.outtotheblack.com
www.cafepress.com/fillies
www.cafepress.com/fireflyflan
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