Hammers thread of Ice and Fire

[Captain Blood]

Oooh lovely 

[Hupp n at em]

Those siege weapons are lovely. 

[Hammers]

The miniature is El Cid, sculpted by Mark Copplestone as a limited edition, releases with the El Cid Warhammer Historical supplement. I've had it in the pile for ages. When I picked it up it just said: "My name is Bolton. Roose Bolton'. But I think it is fashioned after Charlton Heston in the title role from 1961.

The mutts are a mixed bag of Citadel and Rackham.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

One thread more to follow

Very cool idea to use El Cid, Peder I stil haven't decided what to do with mine

[Dilettante Gamer]

I meant to add, I find your "King in the North" a fantastic conversion. Don't know why you're unhappy with it.

[Hammers]

Neither do I. I just aint.

[Charlie_]

Roose Bolton looks fantastic! You've also made the pink colour scheme work really well.

[Hammers]

[knight of unknown brand, possibly citadel, the charger is from eBob]

[Hammers]

[Claymore Scot, Perry First Crusader, Copplestone Henry V and eBob Scottish knight]

[Captain Blood]

Nice painting compadre. Who be they in Westerosi terms? 

[Hammers]

Stormlands. One of the kingsguard, Ser Meryn Trant is the pederast sadist asshole of the Kingsguard, who Arya Stark stabbed in the eyes in a Braavosi brothel. This fellow is not him, however, but some senior relative.

Their coat of arms is a corpse dangling from a gallowtree, sable on azure. Thier words are "So end our foes". They are supposed to fit with my sept project.

[tomrommel1]

Very nice indeed and another house again! I like it that you all choose so many different houses ! Wouldn't it be grand to have them all on one table at least for a photo session ?

[Hammers]

Picking House Trant of Grey Gallows in the Stormlands as my project I did not, from a heraldry position, make things easy for myself. They blaze their shield, according to 'semi-canon sources' (whatever that is') with 'azure, a hanged man, sable'. This means the profile of a man in black in a noose on a blue field. Black on blue... difficult.

This semi-canon source aside, there is a passage from 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdom', chapter 'The Mystery Knight' where one of the protagonists, Dunk, has re-equipped himself with a vintage shield emblazoned with the previous owners heraldry:

'Dunk had not had the time to have it painted with his elm and shooting star, so it still bore the arms of it's last owner: a hanged man swinging grey and grim beneath a gallows tree. It was not a sigil he would have chosen for himself, but the shield had come cheap.'

Well, I guess that is 'canon' enough...

So my attempt, as a rough starting point, is to do this in a much larger scale...



Any old how you interpret this, it is bloody hard to transfer to a 28mm shield or banner. Anyway, I thought it better to have a large scale template to transfer to something lesser...

[tomrommel1]

Thats exactly what I do when I design my freehand. Draw it up much larger as a template!

[Captain Blood]

They blaze their shield, according to 'semi-canon sources' (whatever that is')

That means a fanboy in some spin-off compendium / wiki has made it up, and George RR Martin has said 'hey, that sounds cool, I'm okay with that...'

Given that some of GRRMs own heraldic inventions in the books make little sense in terms of either basic colour theory or legibility / visibility (never mind historical heraldic practice), it's unsurprising that his acolytes come up with equally ineffective blazons. Anyone who thinks red on pink (the Boltons) makes for a good, recognisable battlefield device, probably isn't going to be fazed by the equally unlikely combo of a black motif on a dark blue field... 

I'd go for a very light 'Azure'.

Good luck with the freehand