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This is a terrible picture, with terrible lighting, in a /hotel room/, and my makeup isn't done right, and my hair needs fluffing, and I should have adjusted my shoulder-sash, and a billion other things that no-one cares about, but I FINALLY FINISHED THE BREECHES, HELL YEAH.

Okay, so it was... in the high 90s (Fahrenheit) to low 100s all day long, with 50% humidity, though I wasn't looking at the temperature too closely, but I was easily the most at-risk person for heat stroke at the Con, methinks. To list off my layers:

*Compression shirt - synthetic, one layer in back, two layers in front, sleeveless. Extremely necessary, as it shrinks my chest about 8 inches. Also the Only Thing I Didn't Make aside from the boots.
*18th century men's military shirt - cotton (white, thin), one layer all over, save for the shoulders, which are double-padded (three layers in all) for about ten inches over the shoulder to prevent wear-and-tear from shouldering a musket, long sleeves buttoned at the wrist, high collar, buttoned at the front of the throat
*stock - leather (black), you can't see it very well, but it's kinda like a leather collar that protected the throat (somewhat), laced in the back with leather
*late-18th century waistcoat - cotton (white), two layers (I decided not to do the pockets)
*The Coat (HRM 50th Regiment of Foot, not actually in the Revolutionary War, but the closest to what Hetalia's artist had England wearing, so that's what I went with) - linen lining (white), wool (red, 24-weight (aka 24 oz/sq. yard, the actual historical weight) (black, for the facings, collar, and cuffs) and also 'buttonhole lace' which isn't really lace as we now would think of it, and it is the white-with-red-stripe rectangular thingys that you see around the buttonholes and buttons
*18th century men's breeches - linen (white) and cotton (white, muslin, lining), and the only reason I lined it was because I couldn't find linen thick enough to be /completely/ opaque
*boots - Not At All Historical In The Slightest, and the Only Thing I Didn't Make; I got them online. I thought about going for buckle-shoes and gaiters, but in the end went with the boots. *shrugs*

The musket, nicknamed Sexy, is made from a pine 2-by-6 (liberally applied with mahogany stain), an aluminum broom handle (with gunmetal-grey acrylic paint), trigger and hammer parts that I scrounged from a toy a third of its size (also with gunmetal-grey acrylic paint), and brass plate (cut with a jeweler's saw and holed/countersunk by drill press).

Sexy got its name because I walked back into my college apartment after finishing all the work save for the brass at home, and immediately announced to my flatmates, "LOOK WHO JUST BROUGHT SEXY BACK!" And so forevermore, the musket's name is Sexy.

Description
This is a terrible picture, with terrible lighting, in a /hotel room/, and my makeup isn't done right, and my hair needs fluffing, and I should have adjusted my shoulder-sash, and a billion other things that no-one cares about, but I FINALLY FINISHED THE BREECHES, HELL YEAH.

Okay, so it was... in the high 90s (Fahrenheit) to low 100s all day long, with 50% humidity, though I wasn't looking at the temperature too closely, but I was easily the most at-risk person for heat stroke at the Con, methinks. To list off my layers:

*Compression shirt - synthetic, one layer in back, two layers in front, sleeveless. Extremely necessary, as it shrinks my chest about 8 inches. Also the Only Thing I Didn't Make aside from the boots.
*18th century men's military shirt - cotton (white, thin), one layer all over, save for the shoulders, which are double-padded (three layers in all) for about ten inches over the shoulder to prevent wear-and-tear from shouldering a musket, long sleeves buttoned at the wrist, high collar, buttoned at the front of the throat
*stock - leather (black), you can't see it very well, but it's kinda like a leather collar that protected the throat (somewhat), laced in the back with leather
*late-18th century waistcoat - cotton (white), two layers (I decided not to do the pockets)
*The Coat (HRM 50th Regiment of Foot, not actually in the Revolutionary War, but the closest to what Hetalia's artist had England wearing, so that's what I went with) - linen lining (white), wool (red, 24-weight (aka 24 oz/sq. yard, the actual historical weight) (black, for the facings, collar, and cuffs) and also 'buttonhole lace' which isn't really lace as we now would think of it, and it is the white-with-red-stripe rectangular thingys that you see around the buttonholes and buttons
*18th century men's breeches - linen (white) and cotton (white, muslin, lining), and the only reason I lined it was because I couldn't find linen thick enough to be /completely/ opaque
*boots - Not At All Historical In The Slightest, and the Only Thing I Didn't Make; I got them online. I thought about going for buckle-shoes and gaiters, but in the end went with the boots. *shrugs*

The musket, nicknamed Sexy, is made from a pine 2-by-6 (liberally applied with mahogany stain), an aluminum broom handle (with gunmetal-grey acrylic paint), trigger and hammer parts that I scrounged from a toy a third of its size (also with gunmetal-grey acrylic paint), and brass plate (cut with a jeweler's saw and holed/countersunk by drill press).

Sexy got its name because I walked back into my college apartment after finishing all the work save for the brass at home, and immediately announced to my flatmates, "LOOK WHO JUST BROUGHT SEXY BACK!" And so forevermore, the musket's name is Sexy.