A Fantasy Cottage for Warhammer "The Old World" Scratch Build

Seeing is believing. This project is amazing.

Two Sprue Come Out of Hiding

Sometime ago, when I was searching for sprue I came across three horses and a dire wolf, which I recently dug out of storage. However two of the four "kits" were built a while ago, which leaves me two more of horse to build. I built one these last night.

I seem to have gotten the heads for these two mixed up and attached the head for the Empire horse on the High Elf body, or something like that. I need to add some paint.

Here are links to the other two miniatures

Bretonnian-horse

& the Dire wolf

Tolkin's Definition of Fairies

"Fairies are supernatural beings of diminutive size, in popular belief supposed to possess magical powers and to have great influences for good or evel over the affairs of man."

J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm, On Fairy Stories.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel

My first post on this text was in 2017 and the last was in 2021. Whether I added this link to any of these posts is unknown. Having made 50 or so posts I am not keen on poking through these posst to find whether I had or hadn't added this link. If I have not, I should have:

"Please vist this link: www.jonathanstrange.com to read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel's reactions to Susanna Clarke's novel among other magical things..."

Fascinated with Monoliths

I had wanted to add another screenshot of a monolith to this post. However, In this case a manmade fountain carved from stone will serve as an introduction to this new label and series.

Screenshot from Conan the Barbarian/

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10 of the Largest Monoliths in the World

Bits of Parchment and Map

Bits of parchment and map.

Map depicting ancient territories during the Hyborian Age.

Steal must be tempered with fire and ice.

Screenshots from Conan the Barbarian: Born on the Battlefield

A Series Of Unfortunate Events Explained

After watching Lemony Shicket's "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" I had a lot of questions. This source helped to answer a few of my questions as it will for you.

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A link to "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" was added on 10.18.24 @ 10:26 PM.

Judah Low's Time Golem

"New Crobuzon, and crude, vigorous, ineluctable, the precision of that parcelled-up time reshaped time, was an argument in time.

    reshaped the time itself, and made it

          a golem

                 a time golem

which stood into its life, a golem of sound and time, stood and did what it was instructed to do, its instruction became it, its instruction, its exsistance, its command just to be, and so it was. This animate figure carved out of time itself, the rough hew-markes of its making the unshaped seconds and crushed moments at its edges, the split instances where its timelimbs joined its timebody. It was the shape of a figure in dimensions insensibe even to its maker, unseen by any there."

Iron Council, China Mieville

The Lost World of Dragons Exhibit

The Lost World of Dragons is an interactive exhibit currently running at the Reading Public Museum

The Red Dragoan. These specimens move and roar.

The White Dragon. Did dragons actually exsist? Some believe they actually did.

"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them."
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

The Dragon in Ancient China

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."― J.R.R. Tolkien

The FReeMade

"FReemade. A little tribe. Escapes from a man, without arms, with useless ornamental beetle wings. There is a man with rubberised pincers, a man who wears a crocdile's snout, a hugh cur with the head of a pretty woman. The dog's is a male body. By the skins they wear the jewellery of holed stones on sinews, by the complexities like wood and tea."

Iron Council, China Mieville

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Updated on 7.25.24 @ 1:25 PM: Corrected two spelling errors.

Strange Animals and Predators

"There had been deaths or course, to the foothold lost, to viruses and bacteria of the hinterland, and to the depredations of the inland preditors, animals that unfold in claws, teeth, cirri, and killed. Drogon went hunting with the Council's forces and came back with heads of strange predators, with new wounds and stories...

...The Iron Council papsed over foorprints, the stiletto holds of an echinoerd rex, the strange track of an inchman, pounded earth in clumps of four or five yards apart."

Iron Council, China Mieville

The Cacotopos

"Even there in hte outskirts of the cacotopos¹ the land was liminal, half worldy geography half some bad-dream set. It was merciless, stone horns and trees that looked like stone horns, forests of head-high mushrooms, and ferns that dwarfed prunt pines and in between two-tall extrusions.

The Cacotopos also included mountains with new shapes, with snow on their tops a color snow, a color that should not be, but instead something alive and tenebrous."

Iron Council, China Mieville

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¹"An imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be."

Remade Horrors

"A Remade sutured to steam-and-piston legs like spread-out fingers that run with tremendous shuddering up slods of rock, his man-torso afail like an unwilling passenger. Another Remade, was a muscled man made into a strange six limbed thing: he is joined below his abdomen to the neck."

Iron Council, China Mieville

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Routledge Companion to Science Fiction: China Meiville

I just found this article (a downloadable PDF) while researching China Meiville. It makes for some good reading. If you click here it will deliver you to some good resources on the horror genre, if you so inclined.

Remades are Made Impossible

"A Remade with limbs becoming pistons and jackhammer, where he becomes deafened through his own labors. One was a man whose arms were replaced with the outsized spalyed claws of a mole."

Iron Council, China Miéville¹

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^1. Iron Council (2004) is a weird fantasy novel by China Miéville, his third in the Bas-Lag universe.

Remades are Always Varied

"The Remades are always varied. Their bodies made impossible. On the roadbed there is a man whose front pulsates with scrany arms, each from a corpse or an ambulation. Chained to him a taller man, his face stotic. A fox stitched embedded in his chest from where it snarls and bites at him, keeping the man in permanent terror.

Here a crawling man spiral-shelled in iron and venting smoke. Here a woman working. There are plenty of woman Remades working amoung the others. A woman became a guttered pillar, with her organic parts like a after thoughts. A man, or is it a woman? Whose flesh moves with the tides, with eructations like an octopus. People with their face relocated, bodies made of iron and rubber cables, and steam-engine arms, and animal arms, and arms that are body length pistons that reach out below their waists."

Iron Council, China Miéville

Remnants of a Highwaymen's or a Pirates Life

"Money. In rolls and tight wraps. A hugh haul of coins and notes, in scores of currencies. Shekels, nobles, and guineas, yes, the newest decades old, but there were ducats too, dollars, and rupees and sandnotes and arcane bawbees, square coins, little ingots from maritime provinces, from Shankell, from Perrick Nigh and from cities Ori was not sure he believed in.

A 'contribution', said the note enclosed. 'To hep with a Good Plan. In Jack's memory'."

Iron Council, China Mieville

New Crobuzon's Bonetown

"They were in Bonetown. They watched evening come in livid shades through the silhouettes of the Bonetown Claws and Ribs. The ancient bones that gave the area its name curved more than two hundred feet into the air, cracking, yellowed, mouldering at a geological pace, dwarfing the houses around them."

Iron Council, China Mieville

The Revelers at Fallybeggers Hall

"Up close to the orchestra by the stage it was a cramped clot of men and women, polyglot and many-raced. A slick of vagabonds, petty thieves. and their bosses, discharged foreign soldiers, discharged jailbirds, dissolute rich and tinkers, beggers, pimps and their charges, chancers, knife-grinders, poets, and police agents. Humans, and here and there catus-heads poking over the crowd (allowed in only if their thorns were plucked), the Cactacae,¹ and the scarab-heads of the khepri.

Cigarillas hung form mouths, and people banged their glasse or cutery in time while waiters went between them, on the sawdusted floor..."

Iron Council, China Mieville

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¹The Cactacae are enormous humanoid plant people, often towering over human beings.

The New Crobuzon Fallybeggers Hall

"Fallybeggers Hall was huge and was perminated and clogged with smoke and certain aroma's of drugs. In the boxes and raised circle were the big men and their hangers-on, and sometimes the big woman too."

Iron Council, China Mieville

The Deliriousness of the Adams Family

I believe I have seen all of the rendictions of the Adams Family. However, this edition takes place in an alternate reality. The screenshot depicts the Adams Family motor home cruising into the state of Texas. I am not sure what the purple exhaust represents? No really it is great film.