Well, that's a new one - Paladin on Flying Moose

[Chief Lackey Rich]

So Alternative Armies now sells a 28mm scale Canadian Paladin on Flying Moose:

https://alternative-armies.blogspot.com/2021/11/paladin-on-flying-moose-28mm-release-by.html



Not quite sure what you'd do with it but I'm sure someone will be glad to have a mini available.  It's pretty wintery-themed, maybe use it for Frostgrave, or as part of a Dragon Rampant "Great White North" army?  Perhaps he's taken a sacred vow to protect Santa's Workshop, that seems like the kind of thing a paladin would do.

I assume the technical term for the mount there would be Pegamoose, right?  Plural and singular forms.

[FramFramson]

Geez! She's a beaut, eh?

[Blackwolf]

I don't know about the rider,but that moose is brilliant 

[Mars Miniatures]

Im Amoosed.
But seriously... I want a couple of these to pull Logan Grimnir's sleigh for x-mas.

[Munindk]

The moose might be useful for Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game players that want an alternative to Forgeworlds Thranduil model, its almost half price!

And yes, its definitely a Pegamoose

[Chief Lackey Rich]

But seriously... I want a couple of these to pull Logan Grimnir's sleigh for x-mas.

That sounds like a fine plan.

[Hobgoblin]

There's at least one moose-monster in the Norse sagas, although - of course - the sagas use the European term elk. The example I'm thinking of is Elk-Frodi in Hrolf-Kraki's Saga, who is some kind of elk-centaur or elk-satyr and is also the brother of Bodvar Bjarki, who is the prototype for Tolkien's Beorn. (The saga also includes the battle on which Tolkien based the Battle of the Five Armies.)

So there's certainly precedent for including fantastical elk-creatures in games based on Norse tales - and this beastie might make a good starting point for one.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Slavic myth has myths around Golden Horns, an elk that's largely interchangeable with the Silver Deer in terms of story role.

My favorite moose-monster is the Pamola, which is a Penobscot thunder-deity that lives on top of the tallest mountain in what's currently called Maine.  Body of a man. head of a moose, wings and feet of an eagle, brings cold weather and thunderstorms, doesn't like mountain climbers.

[Metternich]

And as noted in the credits to In Search of the Holy Grail:  "Moose bites can be pretty nasty."

[punkrabbitt]

I'm not seeing what makes the rider particularly Canadian, except that he is mounted on a flying moose. But that could just as easily be from the northern USA as well.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

I'm not seeing what makes the rider particularly Canadian, except that he is mounted on a flying moose. But that could just as easily be from the northern USA as well.

Hell if I know, but you can't zoom to see the details on him very well even at max size.  Maybe the shield heraldry means something (it's not their maple leaf flag, for sure) or whatever musical instrument he has is particularly Canadian somehow?  If the internet is to be believed the accordian may have originated up there.  I can't pick whatever it is out of the rest of the detail on the sculpt.

[Pattus Magnus]

Apologies to the rest of the world if we did invent the accordion- not one of our better contributions, IMO. 

The shield device might be Canada’s coat of arms. It was on the old Red Ensign flag prior to adopting the current national flag, and is still used on some federal government documents and web pages. As others have pointed out, it’s hard to make out those details on the pics of the figure.

I’m oddly tempted to add this figure to my collection.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Apologies to the rest of the world if we did invent the accordion- not one of our better contributions, IMO. 

As a big fan of both Weird Al Yankovic and They Might Be Giants, I respectfully disagree with that contention.  Not all accordions are used for evil. 

I’m oddly tempted to add this figure to my collection.

It's definitely one of those "so weird I must own it" things, like the old Ral Partha "Three Stooges" troll or that conjoined twin zombie fig someone did a few decades ago.

[FramFramson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

[Blackwolf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

Shame the flag is not two dogs