My cooler was one such item and I tried using other decanters but could not keep the "Dragonsblood" cold through the whole archery practice.
Now this project is not as much a reenactment grade project as it is a more SCA/LARP project, I am not making an historical Ice Box, but I am trying to get rid of a needed eyesore.
I took my small Igloo thermos that needs to be filled with gatorade and covered it with blue camp matt. Then using an old Larp technique scored the bluefoam with a scissor and then covered it with brown duct tape. once that is done you use a black ballpoint pen to draw in the detail of the woodgrain.
I did not get to do this in these pictures but if you then give the whole thing a once over with brown and or black shoe polish and give it a shine it will look even better.
On this one I used craft foam for the banding and you can use a ball peen hammer and pound the snot out of it to give a hammered effect, or you can cover it with the dark grey or black duct tape. (I did this later on after the pics)
Oh make sure you take the handle off the cooler, you can't see it, but I cut a bit around the spiggot to increase and clarify the flow. The seperate woodgrain blue foam lid can be used without the cooler top to keep the suction down (I did not want to put a valve in to the cooler)
It did a nice job and I got a lot of comments about it at the event (when they noticed it at all and that was even better!)
