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Title: Totem Poles
Post by: Eric the Shed on 01 November 2012, 10:01:37 AM
Can anybody point me in the right direction - looking for 28mm Totem Poles

Many thanks

Eric
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: Overlord on 01 November 2012, 10:23:08 AM
Grand Manner do a pair: http://www.grandmanner.co.uk/Totum_Poles--product--443.html

(http://www.grandmanner.co.uk/admin/images/Totum_Poles_38014.jpeg)
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: flags_of_war on 01 November 2012, 10:33:28 AM
Is this for your FIW project Eric?
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: matakishi on 01 November 2012, 11:00:56 AM
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-INDIAN-TOTEM-POLE-RE-RELEASED-PLASTIC-CHARBENS-TOY-SOLDIERS-ACCESSORIES-/380502167346?pt=UK_Toys_Games_ToySoldiers_EH&hash=item5897b24f32

Not the shortest link in the world :)
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: fergal on 01 November 2012, 11:47:45 AM
Hi Eric,

I've been watching and reading your blog with delight! It is a visual masterpiece and one that inspires me.

I just wanted to warn you against Totem poles in the FIW landscape, if that's what you had planned.  Totem Poles are a feature of the tribes in the Pacific North West of the the US.  If one were to find it's way into a FIW game, it would be akin to plopping an adobe Spanish tiled house down in your ECW game or a Mosque in your 100 Years War game table. 
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: flags_of_war on 01 November 2012, 12:42:35 PM
Hi Eric,

I've been watching and reading your blog with delight! It is a visual masterpiece and one that inspires me.

I just wanted to warn you against Totem poles in the FIW landscape, if that's what you had planned.  Totem Poles are a feature of the tribes in the Pacific North West of the the US.  If one were to find it's way into a FIW game, it would be akin to plopping an adobe Spanish tiled house down in your ECW game or a Mosque in your 100 Years War game table. 

This is what i was going to say. You post stealer   lol  lol  lol
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: Eric the Shed on 01 November 2012, 01:31:38 PM
Thanks for the update that Totem Poles only featured in the North West....

I'll save my money  ;)

Thank you Fergal for the vote of confidence  :D

Watch the blog in the next couple of weeks for the next project !
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: flags_of_war on 01 November 2012, 02:14:56 PM
Thanks for the update that Totem Poles only featured in the North West....

I'll save my money  ;)

Thank you Fergal for the vote of confidence  :D

Watch the blog in the next couple of weeks for the next project !

A Hide drying rack is something i have planned if you wanting to add more to Indian village.
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: fergal on 01 November 2012, 02:33:26 PM
Thanks for the update that Totem Poles only featured in the North West....

I'll save my money  ;)

Thank you Fergal for the vote of confidence  :D

Watch the blog in the next couple of weeks for the next project !

No worries.  Totems are one of those very iconic images of native America, it's easy to confuse the various cultures if you're not from the area.  I'm sure you'd speak up if I were to dress my South Essex Battalion in kilts.  :)
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: flags_of_war on 01 November 2012, 02:42:02 PM
No worries.  Totems are one of those very iconic images of native America, it's easy to confuse the various cultures if you're not from the area.  I'm sure you'd speak up if I were to dress my South Essex Battalion in kilts.  :)

Just having a South Essex Regiment at all will raise a few eyebrows :P
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: Galloping Major on 01 November 2012, 03:07:51 PM
Great stuff you chaps  :D


www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: scotty on 01 November 2012, 05:31:15 PM
Eric why not use scalping poles instead of totem poles. Easy enough to scratch build with skewers and cocktail sticks
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: mikedemana on 10 November 2012, 05:00:35 PM
Yep...scalping poles would be a good addition. Here are my scratch-built ones:

(http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww213/mikedemana/Native%20Americans/Ind_ScalpPole02.jpg)

and another look:

(http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww213/mikedemana/Native%20Americans/Ind_ScalpPole01.jpg)

and speaking of skin stretcher, I wasn't nearly as pleased with these:

(http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww213/mikedemana/Native%20Americans/Ind_SkinStretchers.jpg)

Mike Demana
Title: Re: Totem Poles
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 10 November 2012, 07:22:42 PM
those skins look fine to me... although when would the fur be scraped off? before or after?