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

[Col. Aubrey Bagshot]

Forgive the random post, but i've been following your tread with great interest and loving every post, as im working on a similar project and shamelessly stealing ideas...
I too use super glue to 'set' and make gamer friendly softer grade hobby materials, and in my search for cheaper CA glue i came across this stuff:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-x-50g-BondFix-Super-THIN-viscosity-Super-Glue-adhesive-High-Strength-Speed-/111834554183?hash=item1a09dbdf47:g:40kAAOSwAKxWWAy1

Got some last week and it works really well, comes in thin, medium and super thick and works out to be very economical when bought in larger quantities....

[Silent Invader]

Thanks for the tip. I've got enough at the moment but I'll certainly bear that brand in mind for the future. I suspect that it's a very similar consistency : soaks in, flows, easily wiped, etc.

[LordOdo]

Thanks guy! 

A question on the ASOIAF / GOT landscape and weather.

My part of the North is below The Wall in a presently snow-free (though very wet) location. In the TV series (3 I think) Wildlings raid a village (thus the village that will join my board idc) which is snow-free, letting one boy live to pass on the news of what has happened. A short while later that boy appears at The Wall, which is as frozen and snowbound as ever. It has always irritated me a tad (yes, I should get out more!) that there seemed to be a sudden switch in the weather. Maybe the village had had a pleasant bout of weather? Anyways, in the books is there a general sense of where the snow starts (altitude, longitude, etc) or does the TV series just gloss over a sudden overall worsening in the weather moving south? Or did I miss something? Probably the latter!

Well, in the books Winterfell, few days from the village and the wall, is covered with snow. And even in the series the snow appears to be more south sometimes.

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So I think it has just been a silly mistake to not put that village in snow..

[Silent Invader]

 

Obviously dodgy production values .....

 

[Elk101]

Weather can be weird though. Where I live can have snow yet ten minutes further toward the coast or down towards the river plain it's just wet (and no, I don't mean the sea or the river!).

[Silent Invader]

There speaks a man from The North! 

[Elk101]

There speaks a man from The North! 

Don't get me started on the rain!

[Charlie_]

Snow....

Well I feel that the show never made it quite clear that winter is not coming, WINTER IS HERE! Stannis' army gets snowed in... Then it thaws and he can move again. In the books, it is MUCH more bleak. Like, all their horses die, they eat the horses, and then a few men are even executed for cannibalism. Meanwhile, at Winterfell, the snow is BAD. Basically the entire castle is under snow and no one can see more than a few feet in front of them. Standing on the ramparts, there is nothing to see beyond the walls except white. It makes for a really great sense of paranoia, as in the books there is much more going on inside the walls of Winterfell than the show has. Basically, the Boltons are hosting lots of other Northern lords who are apparently loyal to them, plus a large contingent of Freys. Stannis' army is somewhere out there in the snow, but no one really wants to go out to fight him. And then there is the whole thing wih Wyman Manderly's pies....

Anyway, I digress. Prior to winter coming down hard, which happens in Book V I think, I'm not actually that certain how much snow there is in the north. I'll have to go back and look at the early Winterfell chapters when all the Stark children are together, but I don't think there is any snow. I don't EVEN think it's snowing immediately north of the wall when the night's watch first go there, near Craster's Keep, or at least not thick settled snow, but I might be wrong about that...

The point is, the north is cold, but I don't think it's exactly always snowing, not even close to the Wall. But once winter comes, the whole place is BURIED under snow, and things get hard. And that's where the books have left us....

[AdamTheGreat]

After reading countless topics on this forum and seeing dozens of terrain projects, I have reached the conclusion that you are all insane.

Looking good, I really like the building.

[Hupp n at em]

After reading countless topics on this forum and seeing dozens of terrain projects, I have reached the conclusion that you are all insane.

Looking good, I really like the building.

Trust me, that feeling doesn't really go away. They just keep on doing more crazy projects.   

[Silent Invader]

Insane? INSANE!!!! .... Just slightly ....

Thanks for the comments - all are appreciated 

Don't get me started on the rain!

Been a bit blowy of late Steve ?  Well, at least it hasn't snowed like in New York (and other related locales that recently got mega-dumped on, which nicely brings me to Charlie's post on snow....... 

That was most helpful Charlie - the distinction between winter is coming and winter is here is perhaps a little blurred in the TV series. I'm not intending to recreate the storylines as such,  so I will content myself that for this terrain board it is coming rather than here.

Much appreciated folks.  Btw, am about 1/2 way there with the board painting and should have more photos this weekend.

[Silent Invader]

It's Sunday night so time for an update  

Btw, the following pictures were taken in less than perfect lighting with spots either too light or too dark. Sorry.  

The whole board now painted .... The rocks in the bluff were a real pain as I struggled to match the colour of the castle, repainting three times. They're still a little off but the lighting makes it look far worse.





The river bed is darker than the ground as it will be peaty. I plan to add a layer of water with brown in it, then a top layer with a touch of grey, then some Valkejo water effect turbulence where necessary.

This is my first waterfall, and so its a bit of a 'suck it and see'. I decided to dry brush white to the tops of the rocks to suggest turbulence.....



.... though with the (uncured) clear silicone sealant its presently looking a bit glacial!





When I add the grey water to the main river I plan to introduce some into the waterfall, which hopefully will improve the colour. We shall see!  

[Mason]

This is gonna look the nuts when it is finished.
That waterfall in particular.
 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks for your confidence Paul  

The good news is that as the waterfall's silicone is curing, colour is starting to show through. Yay! Just hope it's not too much colour.....

Have done the first pour of the river. I don't use fancy products, just Evo-Stik Exterior Grade Wood Glue with drops of Valkejo Air (this pour has Mud Brown) mixed in for colour.

[Elk101]

It really does remind me of parts of Scotland.  Very nice work indeed Steve.