finished '05
posted for June 17, 2007
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These
fine fellows are about half of the tiny contingent of Swallows warriors I
will be owning when I am done collecting (that'll take a while). Tolkien
divided his army into houses, each led by a different noble. The noble of
the Swallows is Duilin, and he's not in this picture. He's in another picture.
In fact, this is actually half of half of the Swallows. THE THING ON THE
BANNER IS
AN ARROWHEAD. This half of the Swallows have black and purple,
just like he says in the book, though I took liberties with them as I'm not
really convinced by either the Warhammer or the GW LotR miniatures, and Tolkien
just gave the colours and never mind about the details; it's detailed enough,
isn't it? For reading, yes, it is. He was not thinking about people trying
to make little realistic, historically accurate models of them, so we can't
make realistic, historically accurate models of them, so my guys are good
enough. For their job. Which is shooting up everything that gets close to
my lines. Which they are quite good at.There are still some closeups from all these minis that I haven't put up; perhaps I will put up an extra page called "Close-ups" after I finish putting up the actual pictures of the models.
Full speed ahead on model assembling! Link is ready to go, the Fountain Knights' horses are ready to go, the Bolt Thrower 2 is almost ready to go, and an orc chariot is fine, but I'm waiting on the orcs themselves and the boars because the chariot will be easier to paint disassembled and so I don't know how they will fit in. The boars need green stuff and I don't feel like doing that right now. I had enough with Link's (now supercool) hair.
I hung something on my wall that makes me happy - I made a cut out shadow-caster thing of Raven - you know, where the holes make a picture - and now Raven is cast on my wall when I turn the light on.
Now is the first chapter of Link's Awakening, or the fifth chapter of MoDttIoD. Kevin's idea was the plot device by which Link gets an Ocarina (which promptly will play almost no part in the plot; certainly not in the way you need it to beat the game... well, he'll use it for the final scene but before that it's useless except for serenading Marin). Hooray for him, although he seems to have lost his motor control today and keeps knocking into stuff.