Gen. Charles Gordon, VSF

[Governor General]

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?

[Justin Buck]

Its a small engine that keeps his heart beating after it was run through with a fuzzy's spear. 
Figure looks great.  I'll have to check this company out.

Justin

[The_Beast]

Oh, good gosh, I'd completely forgotten about Lord Fecitt as well!

Thanks so much for the cranial nudge!!

Doug

[XCIV]

Its a small engine that keeps his heart beating after it was run through with a fuzzy's spear. 
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.

[warburton]

Its a small engine that keeps his heart beating after it was run through with a fuzzy's spear. 
Figure looks great.  I'll have to check this company out.

Justin

That would be my guess!

Great work.

[Kitsune]

General Gordon - thats my local boy! (Gravesend)

[hunter-harrison01]

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.