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Title: Gen. Charles Gordon, VSF
Post by: Governor General on 10 February 2014, 05:09:34 PM
28mm fig from Design 28 available through Black Pyramid Gaming. Like all the miniatures in this line Gen. Gordon was a treat to paint. The object on his back puzzles me. I can't tell if its a smokestack or a mortar supported by the shoulder and chest armour. Thoughts?
Title: Re: Gen. Charles Gordon, VSF
Post by: Justin Buck on 11 February 2014, 06:31:21 AM
Its a small engine that keeps his heart beating after it was run through with a fuzzy's spear.  :D
Figure looks great.  I'll have to check this company out.

Justin
Title: Re: Gen. Charles Gordon, VSF
Post by: The_Beast on 11 February 2014, 05:55:14 PM
Oh, good gosh, I'd completely forgotten about Lord Fecitt as well!

Thanks so much for the cranial nudge!!

Doug
Title: Re: Gen. Charles Gordon, VSF
Post by: XCIV on 15 February 2014, 03:48:44 PM
Its a small engine that keeps his heart beating after it was run through with a fuzzy's spear.  :D
Figure looks great.  I'll have to check this company out.

Justin

Now that gives me an idea for a Clive's Register article... anyone want to write one up on Gordon? The idea that he survived the Sudan thanks to a nick of time intervention (from Her Majesty's Skywalkers. perhaps?) and radical medical care... Sort of like Iron Man/Tony Stark's electromagnet. Kinda cool.
Title: Re: Gen. Charles Gordon, VSF
Post by: warburton on 18 February 2014, 11:12:57 AM
Its a small engine that keeps his heart beating after it was run through with a fuzzy's spear.  :D
Figure looks great.  I'll have to check this company out.

Justin

That would be my guess!

Great work.
Title: Re: Gen. Charles Gordon, VSF
Post by: Kitsune on 18 February 2014, 11:53:32 AM
General Gordon - thats my local boy! (Gravesend)
Title: Re: Gen. Charles Gordon, VSF
Post by: hunter-harrison01 on 28 February 2014, 03:42:14 PM
Justin is right. It is a small smokestack for the machine keeping him alive.

My original idea was he was kept alive and smuggled out by a secret agents in Khartoum. The agents then left a suitable replacement for the mahdi's men and even though he was given the opportunity to retire he decided to become a british agent instead.
The model originally had him holding the spear that had 'killed' him. But I used it on another Gordon I never got round to finishing.