Saturday 30 August 2014

Noggin character: the Ice Dragon - WIP

The character from a Noggin illustration (image of postcard - available from here)
I've been working on a Ral Partha dragon, modifying it to be more like the Ice Dragon as I can without doing to much alteration. I've made the body a bit larger and added more detail along the ridge of the back, in addition I've had to sculpt a replacement for a missing front claw.

Wednesday 27 August 2014

Ronf encounters a bear .....

A small adventure for the Noggin character Ronf (see here for conversion and info)

Ronf was out for a walk in the upper reaches of the hidden valley...
 he heard a russle in the undergrowth and the a large bear appeared on the path in front of him ....
 Ronf stood up as tall as he could and shouted "Shoo! ya great big furry lump. Off with ya !", the bear rather nonplussed turned and wandered off down another path ...
Ronf slightly ruffled by his encounter, continued on ...

Monday 25 August 2014

The Quest for a Bride. The beginnings

Hagrid Hagridson has sent out a call for men to go aviking, men flocked from the surrounding countryside to learn more, some left when the object of the raid was revealed, but 60 men, two boats crews agreed to follow him.
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Saturday 23 August 2014

Weary Warriors ...

Picked up a job lot of 15 dark age warrior figures of Ebay for a  snip at £5 plus postage; these are older figures but have a style of pose I liked. On arrival they looked rather weary ...

 After a bit of re-touching of paintwork, some new shields/spears and onto bases they certainly look ready for action now ....


Sunday 17 August 2014

Sven Eriksen and the Obelisk of Ninnius - part 2 (of 2)

Continued from the previous post. 

Sven Eriksen and his men are aiming to ransack the precincts of the temple round the obelisk of Ninnius.

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 Sven issues orders for his mean to move forward ...

 The local look-outs have spotted the vikings, some lightly armed men with slings and bows are positioned - hopefully to delay the vikings while their main force gets into position ...
 A runner warns the priests...
 The locals assemble their forces ....
 The vikings move inland slowly....
 Having made sure the ruined temple near the river is clear of any opposition, they move forward up the slope, coming under fire from archers.
As the local main force deploys to protect the obelisk precinct, the vikings continue to press forward and are getting to grips with the lighter armed defenders in their way ...
 The vikings have pushed the opposition back and prepare to attack ...
 They charge in - a stiff fight ensues ....
 The vikings are pushed back .....
 Seeing the numbers of the opposition and his right flank in danger of being turned, Sven orders his men to fall back and return to the ship ....
 They scramble aboard and put out into the estuary, exchanging arrows with locals on shore
 As they make way down the river, Sven discusses with Elfric what to do...
Thwarted by the defenders of obelisk,  Sven decides to return home. He'll have to come back with more men or maybe a stealthy approach is needed - maybe he could look for another clue to the whereabouts of Whorled Cup in the mean-time.

Tuesday 12 August 2014

Sven Eriksen and the Obelisk of Ninnius - part 1 (of 2)

Sven Eriksen continues his quest to obtain the clues to the location of the Whorled Cup and its treasures.

He has located the next item which contains the the third clue, and has journied to the the shores of the Offlandt and intends to ransack the precinct of the Obelisk of Ninnius.

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The temple complex of Ninnius....
 Early morning and the priests conduct rituals at the Obelisk of Ninnius ....
 The vikings arrived the night before and setup a small camp, now they are up and about and preparing to move in-land.

How will they fare ? .....

to be continued .....