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Author Topic: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2  (Read 9517 times)

Offline Tarnegol

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BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« on: January 25, 2023, 08:56:12 PM »
“Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.”

 Another 15mm Biblical construction.
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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2023, 02:43:09 AM »
“Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.”

 Another 15mm Biblical construction.
This sounds very interesting. I was thinking of doing something in 15mm and western Asian as well but a bit later; perhaps a Zoroastarian fire temple.

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2023, 07:39:34 AM »
Good luck with this.
I look forward to seeing what you do.

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2023, 08:03:05 AM »
Yeah, good luck with the project. Definitely interested here!

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2023, 02:57:35 PM »
That should be interesting for sure! Two for the price of one; the Ark and the temple of Dagon.

Best of luck! :)
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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2023, 05:35:55 PM »
I have to see how Dagon and the Ark turn out, cool idea.

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2023, 05:40:57 PM »
Very cool idea!

But will Dagon be lying face down with his head and hands broken off?
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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2023, 06:26:09 PM »
But will Dagon be lying face down with his head and hands broken off?

Nah! That'd be 2 verses too late!

Actually I'm considering multiple Dagons. Partly because the expected 'fish god' is not Dagon, who was a grain god, so I'll  inevitably end up doing the historical, small grain god and the Hollywood/evangelical huge fish god (already got 2 versions, 'though both with head and hands intact!) I'm keen that the House of Dagon can serve as the House of *Insert Pagan Deity Here*, so eventually, if not as part of this competition, I'll end up with various mix-and-match deities.

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2023, 03:41:26 PM »
Good luck - will be interested to see this in 15mm

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2023, 09:52:10 AM »
Dagon be praised keen to see this one...

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2023, 08:06:57 AM »
Thanks, all, for your encouraging comments.

A bit of background:

This build will be very loosely based on the Philistine temple at Tell Qasile in Israel. It is unknown which deity or deities were worshipped in this temple, nor, other than the Bible itself, whether the Philistines really had anything to do with the Mesopotamian god Dagon. However the Tell Qasile temple had a roof supports by two pillars, as did the House of Dagon in Gath which Samson deconstructed, so that’s close enough for my purposes. I shall be adding some bits, subtracting others and reshaping and resizing a fair bit to make a model which fits on a 300mm Sarissa Precision terrain tile and can be used (although if it ever is…).
Below is a link to an ancient blog which nevertheless provides some useful background, and I attach the most useful picture of the layout I could find, the site’s sign liberated from Wikipedia.

https://ferrelljenkins.blog/2010/07/29/philistine-temple-found-at-tell-es-safigath/

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2023, 10:20:52 AM »
Interesting.

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2023, 10:48:41 AM »
I look forward to seeing your interpretation of this.

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2023, 03:01:57 PM »
Will the construction be collapsible via the two pillars?  ;)

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Re: BSC2023 Tarnegol I Samuel 5:2
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2023, 03:32:55 PM »
Will the construction be collapsible via the two pillars?  ;)

Only if this bloke turns up...

 

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