Miniature Mojo: Another winter project that I have on the go, provisionally entitled Wild Winter. It's sort of a pulp-Arthurian re-imagination of late Dark Ages to Late Medieval history, set 'in the north'. It is otherwise a fantasy and magic-free zone! Some might see a cross over with GoT but bigger influences are actually the snow-based scenes and pulp-Vikings in movies such as Arthur and The Island At The Top Of The World.
I will have two factions. The pulp-Arthurians - the defenders of the wall and all that is decent (as they see it anyways). They will be derived from the forthcoming Perry 100 Years War plastics with a bit of WotR throne in. The snow-bound north is not home to them but is a place of duty. Their adversaries will be the Mathan Sluagh - which, if I have got it right, is Scottish Gaelic meaning Bear People. A nomadic, bear-hunting tribe that lives in the mountains to the north: they are tenacious, resilient, ferocious and clad in furs and skins. They have limited technical and agricultural resources (there's is a harsh environment) so they raid south for tools, cereals and other useful goods).
I am making the Mathan Sluagh myself, probably as two packs of male and one of female, each with four multipart figures. I've made headway with the first pack of males, which comprises:
- Legs & torso x 4
- Arm & weapon sets x 4
- Heads x 4
- Shields (optional) x 4
I still have quite a lot to do, though the next step will be to release the arms from the wires and re-jig them to ensure that all 4 sets work with the various bodies. Re-jigging the arms is likely to require padding out of the upper torsos.
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