Games of the North: 20/5 completed carts, commerce & captives (GoT)

[Silent Invader]

Thanks chaps, very much appreciated.

Cleganes? I shall have to go look them up!

Edit

Ah yes, Gregor Clegane = The Hound
Other than The Hound, I don't recall seeing much of the Cleganes in the TV series.........

[tyrionhalfman]

Sandor Clegane = the Hound, Gregor Clegane = the Mountain, the Hound's big brother, who caused the horrendous burns on the Hound by shoving his face into the fire as a child for playing with his toy.

The Mountain's men fought in the Riverlands, including terrorising the civilian population including Arya and the Nights Watch recruits. The Hound and Arya killed a group of them after running into them in an inn in the Riverlands and Arya reclaimed her short sword Needle which one of them had stolen earlier.

The Mountain fought and killed Prince Oberin as part of Tyrion's trial.

Their household colours were yellow I believe with a black hound sigil.

[Elk101]

Thanks chaps, very much appreciated.

Cleganes? I shall have to go look them up!

Edit

Ah yes, Gregor Clegane = The Hound
Other than The Hound, I don't recall seeing much of the Cleganes in the TV series.........

Gregor Clegane is a giant of a man towering above most men of Westeros.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks to you both for helping out there. Now I recall The Mountain as well as The Hound (and hopefully in future will not jumble their names!)

The Mountain's men fought in the Riverlands, including terrorising the civilian population including Arya and the Nights Watch recruits. The Hound and Arya killed a group of them after running into them in an inn in the Riverlands and Arya reclaimed her short sword Needle which one of them had stolen earlier.

I recall that now: the scene where afterwards The Hound says to Arya something like 'warn me next time you're going to kill someone'

[Vermis]

They look really good Steve. What about some Cleganes? I'd love to see you take on a Mountain conversion.

Oh yeah.

A GW Bretonnian should be about the correct size, right?

[**GS**]

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Their household colours were yellow I believe with a black hound sigil.

It's three dogs on a yellow field:

"The first knight of House Clegane was kennelmaster at Casterly Rock until one autumn year when he saved Lord Tytos Lannister from a lioness and lost a leg and three dogs in the effort. As a reward, Tytos gave him lands and a towerhouse and took his son as his squire. The three dogs on the Clegane sigil represent those that died saving Tytos" taken from http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/House_Clegane

Nice story for a horrible figure in the books.

btw: looking forward to the Boltons, That's the worst house of all the northern houses imho.

Cheers
GS

[Silent Invader]

Thanks  

Spur of the moment, I decided to start building the Boltons a derelict fort to mind.....



Edit: In this, I will be very influenced by the work of Jimbibbly!   

[Elk101]

Edit: In this, I will be very influenced by the work of Jimbibbly!   

Better start cutting out those bricks!

[Silent Invader]

Better start cutting out those bricks!

Good guess but not quite 

[OSHIROmodels]

Better start cutting those flaps 

 

cheers

James

[Constable Bertrand]

Will certainly need door flaps to get the wizard tower in and out mate    *

Another little project hey Steve, haha, To be executed with your excellent skill I presume. I shall watch with interest!

Cheers
Matt

*2 Bibbles references - I'm a little chuffed at that. Thanks mate

[Silent Invader]

No flaps required as it will be a ruin..... (And therefore significantly less work than full height walls!  )

Yes Matt, another project     Though this is one that eats into my lead pile rather than adds to it    It also helps me start to address how I will re-do the terrain for my WotR project without the daunting prospect of 'having' to do a full-size battlefield at the off.

[Constable Bertrand]

Reducing the mountain is a good prospect, and it gives you plenty of sculpting and terrain options so that should keep you entertained Steve

[Silent Invader]

Absolutely, Matt.  . And I shall do my best not to buy anything 'new' for this project.

Anyways, no time for sculpting this morning so I stacked a few more bits of cork onto the fort.



If anybody is wondering about the style I'm aiming for, it's along the lines of Orchardton Tower (a Scottish medieval round tower house) but built in the dry-stone wall manner of a much older Scottish broch. But it'll be falling down (if only they'd used mortar to build it!  )

Edit: have a few more bits of cork to add around the tower plinth to remove its roundness but I'm out of glue 

[Silent Invader]

I should be doing the sculpting but got a little side-tracked with the fort (outpost) that will be home for my detachment of Boltons. Still in very early stages, it is intended to have initially been constructed in earlier times, dry-walled and with most timber elements long since rotted or burned, a lot of the smaller stones have been robbed away.

Basically, I've done the bigger stones that are low down in each wall and am now working higher with increasingly smaller stuff. One section is already at its final height and so has been topped with very small stones.

The stone is slate chippings, further smashed and split, with a dab of exterior grade white glue. Gaps etc will need to be filled in due course. Plan is to have a circular staircase going up the interior of the inside wall that will reach a partial upper floor (Hmm, might have to put a couple of wooden beams in).