Reproduction Roman leather military tents?

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Think of this, It's an 8 man tent.

thats 400 or so bux per man to sleep in a 100% authentic tent,
for the rest of your reenactment life.

[size=150xmbps0l]A[/size]las, having invested in a bunker in WWI, not only in money, but also time, sweat and blood... then to have the unit explode and I find it was a waste of my time. I got my money back, but cetainly not any of my time or anything... to me, if I am going to invest in something, I want to make sure it's not "vapor-ware."

My WW2 unit has yearly Dues, and with this money we have bought two fantastic tents that sleep the whole platoon, At events, other units beg to come in and change their clothes by the heat of the stove.

[size=150xmbps0l]E[/size]veryone has different ideas of what is correct or important... some like vehicles or in this case, perhaps Roman artillery...

I reenact 3 periods, Now that im going into Roman, (and I will be kitting out freinds and bringing them to events), Getting an accurate tent is the FIRST thing im going to do.
Just my 2 cents
-Gordak

[size=150xmbps0l]M[/size]y priorities are more to get people outfitted and in the right frame of mind... that and things like first-person personas... use of NFS <[size=75xmbps0l][urlxmbps0l]http://www.reenactor.net/Ancient/nfs/[/url][/size]> ([size=75xmbps0l]needle felt sword[/size]) and other things like that. IF I get a canvas tent, I still feel perhaps it would be better [size=75xmbps0l](until a real leather tent can be made)[/size] to perhaps paint it to look like leather... I know many are against this and perhaps rightly, but everything is a trade-off.
Best, DMV