Tuesday 31 March 2015

From the mud

In the beginning was mud. The mud was without time and without end, and the creatures who dwelled in the mud lived in peace.

The gods came and divided the mud into the wet and the dry. The wet they called "sea" and the dry they called "land". Mud remained only at the forgotten edges of the earth.

The gods created creatures to dwell in the sea and creatures to dwell on the land.
The gods said to the creatures of the sea, "go forth and multiply". The gods said to the creatures of the land, "go forth and multiply".

The creatures of the mud were forgotten. The creatures of the mud cowered together at the edges of the earth. They had not been told to go forth. They had not been told to multiply. They cursed the gods who had forgotten them. They cursed the creatures the gods had favoured.

Again and again they cried at the skies with curse after curse and profanity after profanity. And they waited and listened for the wrath of the gods who they had cursed. They heard nothing. Nothing but the silence of the mud, and the screaming desire to do that which the gods had denied them:

Go forth and multiply.



So near and yet so far! I made a good start on these fimir and hoped to have them ready for the end of the month of Marsh, but frustratingly it looks like I'm not quite going to finish. Above is as far as I got. It's particularly frustrating given that all around me in the oldhammer community, people are successfully completing one hour painting challenges, and I can't get these done within a month... but the thing is, I think without the dangling carrot of a wargame coming up, it's really hard for me to paint to a deadline. Anyway, I'm up to Liverpool tomorrow so the detail work on these will wait until I get back.

In the meantime, here's a couple of team photos of the whole of Clan Slea so far. Turning into quite the horde.

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  1. That is a gribbly looking bunch. If I ever get round to finishing an army i'll have to give you a game.

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    1. Surely you have an army of Brets? I remember seeing them in battle array! But yes, the fimir are always up for a fight

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  2. Bring them along to the Oldhammerer weekender, I think that'll be my next gaming opportunity and if you're not fully booked up with games then I'll happily give you a game.

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    1. I may or may not bring them this Oldhammer weekend - it depends on the games that I sign up for really. They're good fun but the weekend is a good excuse to get working on other projects...

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  3. I'm bringing at least one Black Longship for the Oldhammer Ahoy game. Clan Slea are welcome to borrow it from Clan Myeri. Let's see if they fare better afloat than in tunnels!

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    1. Though the thought of seeing my fimm aflot on the ocean waves is an intriguing one, I think for the Oldhammer Ahoy game I'm going to be focussing on my Sea Elves

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