*coming up for air*

Pledge: Continue through current army projects

Have I bought new minis this year? Decidedly not. I’m going to hold off atleast until June. That should be enough time to get through my current armies, paint the commission army I will receive this weekend (SAGA is getting attention *hoots happily*) and then consider Giftmas. I…[Read more]

Beware the Dire Turducken from Reaper. I don’t know if it would go well with Lembas. I don’t think these are an endangered species since people seem to talk about frying them a lot

As far as the baking process I think that the simple science in Good Eats explains to me how difficult the combination of nutrition versus fluff. The best I can think…[Read more]

You’re right Elves are fair , but in todays Hollywood that’s flexible . Just like the variety of peoples in  rural villages in the Witcher , you would think for the time period they would be a single ethnic / tribal group , you would find diversity in major / capital cities ( Enoys , Merchants , Diplomats and there households ) or port cities…[Read more]

Reminds me of this story from the casting rooms of the LoTR films from Brett McKenzie:

Spanish cobbles?

That’s dwarves you’re thinking of. Elves were always described as being fair.

It would be easy to find people to portray Elves today , as they would be short , chunky and of swarthy complexion . Modern day casting of historical / fantasy properties sucks

So… the ongoing saga of a base for the tower I built a few weeks ago continues.

This time I tried some Daz air drying clay with the cobblestone roller I have.

Not perfect, but it’s ok. Obviously needs painting as terracota cobbles is wrong.

Agreed, Finnish people were the inspiration. The Kalevala highly inspired Tolkien, and it’s Finnish.

@sundancer I would think it would be more like a big greasy bird, duck or goose maybe? Although, I don’t know anyone who’s tried one. Can’t shoot them.

Exactly, what I should have got, what I actually got.

Oh, that makes sense now. I’m not sure I would have trusted that seller if thats the quality of their photos

I’m guessing the top photo is what the seller put on ebay and the bottom one is what he actually received in the mail?

The ones in the top photo look like Pestigor command to me @grantinvanman