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Hi Guys.
Not being very, very keen to spent huge wads of cash on a historic or Army marquee, I was wondering if any of you guys had created reasonable room-sized indoor spaces that weren't white-PVC nightmares!
I can get hold of a cheap (£200ish) 4 x 8 metre marquee of the white-PVC nightmare variety & so was wondering of good ways to make it look generically from the past, perhaps replace the walls cheaply...
Just throwing this one open for ideas really!
Cheers!
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The best thing to do would probably be to pick apart the PVC nightmare and use it as a pattern for making a much nicer thing out of canvas... painting the poles to look vaguely like wood would help too.
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| Yeah, that's on the list as a possibility. I think it's a go-er as far as getting the basic shape in place, and I've already located the canvas at http://www.whaleys-bradford.ltd.uk!
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You do have to remember though that the frames of tehse things are designed to hold the weight of Poly panels, not canvas, and some of them won't take it, and fail (normally rather catastrophically) which whilst fun to watch from a distance, is not actually a *good thing*.
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You do have to remember though that the frames of tehse things are designed to hold the weight of Poly panels, not canvas, and some of them won't take it, and fail (normally rather catastrophically) which whilst fun to watch from a distance, is not actually a *good thing*.
Hmmm... good point... I was thinking that keeping the roof poly & replacing some/all the walls was the way to go already. Now I'm sure! 
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If you are really looking for period and can handle the canvas yourself why not aim to build an Oseburg? Those industrious viking chaps made them as large as 5.3m x 4.5m (maybe even bigger just no one has found the remains yet!)
There is a fairly decent pdf plan here:
http://www.vikingagevessels.org/documents/F_tents.pdf.
Although that link isn't working for me at the moment unless I google it and view it as HTML, that means you don't get the useful illustrations!
If you are interested in a copy of the pdf and the link doesn't work then pm me your email and I'll send it that way.
Given a couple of weeks free time I'll be trying to knock one of these together for GLC's "Vikings" in March next year.
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Nice one Nick -- the link is working now (you may need to remove the full stop after pdf).
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Malak (10/18/2006)
Yeah, that's on the list as a possibility. I think it's a go-er as far as getting the basic shape in place, and I've already located the canvas at http://www.whaleys-bradford.ltd.uk! Just to warn you, I was looking into this myself earlier this year and my company has an account with Whaleys (it's great being a theatre technician). They do warn that the canvas they sell has not been pre-shrunk and will shrink between 10% and 15% the first time it gets wet. If you have access to a big industrial sized washer, you can do this in advance, if not, then you can preshrink the individual pieces by scaling up at least 15% and then washing them individually in a normal washer. This will take forever though. Just thought you might like the warning that put me off making my own.
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Just thought you might like the warning that put me off making my own.
Cheers for the heads up.
Presumably I could just hose the stuff down & then dry it on the line...
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