[MR] Atlantia Digest, Vol 89, Issue 9

[Christopher J]

*UPDATE ON EMAIL*

I have been contacted by one of the Land folks at Pennsic. Looks like I had the right addy after all! Yay!!!

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To be honest, without this project working out, I can't. I have no other shelter. And besides....I can never seem to get stuff done without a hard deadline. And that's if I'm able to come at all. 

If it's not done in time, there's not much I can do there. I doubt it would even get there if it's not done enough to live in...lol.

Actually, Pennsic was sort of an after thought after I saw the class schedule. The wagon was already on the drawing board, just with a date further out. But if I can get it done in time for Pennsic, then so much the better. Instead of barely getting it done for the late summer/early fall events, I can be detailing it for those events. 

I work in odd ways. Must. have. pressure. to build....lol

As far as the period rules, it's not so much the rules of what constitutes period to me. It's what I think is acceptably period. If it looks awful, I won't use it. The rules were more the technical points of size, and are they allowed in general camps, or do they have their own area (period style, not modern style).

I would love to take you up on your offer of the tour if I can make it, tho. 

This design is more of a sleeper berth that anything else. I was a truck driver, so I can deal with a tiny little space like 7'4"x7'4" interior dimensions. Old hat for me. My main goal is fast up and down (a lesson from the rains last Friday setting up at Sapphire). So, for now, dry, easy up and down, and enough room to function when I have been drinking (to help me sleep, of course!) is all I'm after. 

Now for next year, I'd work on something more Pennsic specific. Maybe 
concentrate on a vehicle with real towing capacity, and do an 8x12 or 
something with a camp toilet room in it...lol. Maybe even a structure that totally breaks down. Infinitely expandable, in theory, anyway.

So it's only a a month or so more of a rush than I was planning on, anyway. And like I said, it at least ensures (I hope) completion for the late season.

Thanks!
Christopher

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The rules on what constitutes "period" are pretty fast and loose at Pennic. I have seen a vehicle diguised as an elephant and an Airstream painted with faux stone work. So the Period Police probably won't come for you if you are planning a structure of some sort. I don't think there is a list of rules anywhere per se. 

 

I think now is a bit late to start a project, though. It will take you longer than you think to complete it. 

 

You can work on it at War, but let me tell you that your disturbing the peace with constant hammering and construction noise will do nothing to endear you to your neigbors. A guy did that on our block last year and I am surprised he was not lynched. Not only was it inconsiderate on his part, but he spent his entire war building sometime that probably would have been better off being built at his own home and not down in a Swamp with no electricity and neighbors that don't want to wake up at the crack of dawn.

 

My own vardo is one that is put together on site, but it goes together with pre drilled wing bolts 

 

There are many structures at Pennsic, from vardos to various types of houses to ships. There is a huge Italian villa and an ginormous, absolutely georgeous castle complete with a stain glass rose window. Why don't you wait, come to Pennsic, and go around and talk to some of the structure builders and vardo builders before taking on a task like that right now? No point rushing this. Wait a year and do it right. 

 

If you want, we could take you on a tour, if you like. We live in Court of Miracles in (i think) X09. I'll go check on that for you. We have two vardos down there, and know a lot of other structure builders I can take you to. 

 

There is a vardo builders group on Yahoo, the Vardoshavora. I can hook you up with that, if you like. 

 

 

Dulcy

 

 

> 
> Is there still time to build or buy a wagon or mobile home before Pennsic?
> 
> Could you put fake half-timbering on a standard travel trailer and make it
> into a house? There are some groups that transport "dwellings" to Pennsic, and
> assemble them there.
> 
> I did a quick search on "vardo sca pennsic" and got a bunch of hits, some of
> which had links to pictures or plans, not just of vardos, but of earlier (more
> period) gypsy dwellings, and of non-gypsy conveyances or dwellings.
>