Hammer's building thread

[gamer Mac]

Thats sounds like a great idea
I can think of loads of uses for that.

[Admiral Benbow]

I just dug up another idea among the potato sacks and rusty garden tools in the murky depths of my mind. When I did my silly DNKCM I at some point thought it'd be nice to do some gaming with them. It took me a while to come up with proper antagonists but figured the rather conservative club must clash with some rather uncouth characters. I came up with the idea of a loose gang of Irish pikies, Welsh gypsies and other modern nomads setting up camp in the Monimasket commons where the honourable club walk their dogs.

Having seen he second season of 'Carnivale'  I am thinking a mobile camp with Girly Show, paris wheel platform, gypsy fortune teller caravan, a bare-knuckled-fisticuffmanship-ring-onna-truck, a truck with stolen church copper plate roofing...

It's not NWF, but I feel the stakes has been raisen by JB so I am considering it. Whadda you say, Overlord? Is a Carnival caravan transportation?

That's an absolute gorgeous idea, Hammers! 

[Hammers]

Agains't my better judgement I've just gone'n donnit. I ordered two flatbed trucks from Blue Moon, a Ford AA from Sloppy Jalopy and a Tamiya Light Utility Vehicle from Moduni ( and,  hrm-hm, a Trumpeter 1/48 FW 200 Condor just to, you know make the order worthwhile... ). They will be used as platforms for the carnival. I already have all the miniatures, all the horses, all plastic sheet, brass wire I think I need.

I need some advice.
The Welsh gypsies should have a dancing bear. Which one should I get?

Where does one buy cart wheels? I need them for a couple of horse drawn gypsy caravans.

Irish travellers, so they traditionally trade horses and race dogs? EDIT aparently they do.

[Thunderchicken]

Where does one buy cart wheels? I need them for a couple of horse drawn gypsy caravans.

Check out lego cart wheels on E-bay. Once you get past the stigma some of them aren't bad at all and paint up well.

Good to see you're going ahead with this project. 

[Hammers]

... paris wheel platform...

It's Ferris Wheel in English, innit? 'Pariserhjul' is what we call it in here in the pagan north.

[Svennn]

Dancing bear - if no better suggestions arise how about the one (Cyril?) in the original Dwarf Kings Court box set from Citadel? I think I know someone with a spare one in the attic too

[Hammers]

Hell, Svennn. You've become my main Lead Pimp!

[marianas_gamer]

Hammers,
Glad to see you running with this idea.  It gives you a better chance to exercise your particular *style* of humor 

[marianas_gamer]

Oh God Silent Invader, now you have me thinking of that horribly great clown on a toilet mini that was up on TMP last week!  My eyes, my eyes 

[Overlord]

Will there be a freak show?

Probably a LAF member inspired one. 

[Hammers]

No clowns. That's circus.

Freakshow is a good idea, if I can the miniatures I like. (WW is just to out there and I don't like plastic).

I will start with a gypsy varod drawn by a Shire horse. I just a Ebob one, hooves like soup plates, just the thing. It will obviously be inhabited by a fortune telling crone.

I think I'll use the Thornycroft as a platform for a Ferris wheel. Problem is that I will most likely get bogged down in details like "how do you *really* transport a Ferris wheel".

[Thunderchicken]

"how do you *really* transport a Ferris wheel".

Give it a push and hope everyone gets out the way?

[Sinewgrab]

I think I'll use the Thornycroft as a platform for a Ferris wheel. Problem is that I will most likely get bogged down in details like "how do you *really* transport a Ferris wheel".

Ogres?

[Hammers]

So heere's my first WIP, Mother Zoogla's Vardo. Mother Zoogla is a Welsh gypsy of an obscure clan rumoured to have mix blood with elfkin back in the 18th century. She vehemently scornes at these old wives tales, which only makes to fortify them in peoples minds. She is the carneval palmist, fortune teller and purveyor of general curses and love potions.



The vardo so far. Mostly made from styrene sheet, strips and architecural pieces plus some items from the bit box. Springs, axles and and that forky bit, I don't know the English name for it, which is attachhed to the horse are soldered brass wire of various shapes and dimensions.

I wish I had made the vardo more narrow. That would make the Ebob Rebellion charger look bigger and more like a gypsy horse or Shire horse. As it is it looks very roomy and comfy. Had it it had more narrow proportions it could have appeared more gaunt and awkward, which would have fitted its witch-like proprietress. I tried to amend this a little by putting the wheel axles quite close together. There's still a bit of detailing that will go into this.

Next up, I think, will be Toby "Green" Knight's Hootchie Kootchie Burlesque.

[alone_withmyaxe]

Very cool looking,

Like the gypsy cursing all who look upon her