tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84592315403245581692024-03-15T09:33:13.245+01:00First Point of AriesF P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-85395677361855216902016-07-29T14:40:00.001+02:002016-07-29T21:04:12.122+02:00The Pilgrym!<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Green Man Cometh... </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On</span> J<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uly</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">19th</span> 2016<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pilgrym Game</span> took place <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in Warhammer World<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> after more than half a year<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of collec<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tive </span>preparation and development of <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a shared narrative </span>over on </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://ironsleet.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Iron <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">leet</span></span></span></i></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From top left to ri<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ght: PDH, FPOA, Jeff <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vader, JRN, Mig<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sula, Ms.<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Tears of Envy<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From bottom left to right: The <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wier Brothers<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Toni, Thistle, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Iron Sleeter Kari</span> and<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mr. Tears of <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Isstvan</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was a tr<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">u</span>ly hu<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mbling experience, <i>a pilgr<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y</span>mmage in itself</i>, to <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be part of <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e</span> incredible group of artists and 40K <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">connoisseurs from <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">around</span> the world </span>that make <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">up the<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Pilgrym Collective. The amount of talent and inspiration that has been the Pilgrym during the last six months and on the day<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> itself in Nottingham </span>was overwhel<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ming<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A big thank you<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to Mi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gsula</span>, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thistle the Elder One <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and P<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">DH</span> for making this happen<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I partic<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ipated with a Bio-Pilgrymmage of Green Mechanicvm and Bio-Explorers, which can be read about on Iron Sleet <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">these seven posts</span></span>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ironsleet.com/2016/06/19/the-bio-pilgrymme-part-iii-enter-arch-magos-biologis-sverre-arrheniuss/" target="_blank"><i>Bio-Pilgrymme, Part III: Enter Arch Mag<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">os Biologis Sverre Arrheniusse</span></i></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ironsleet.com/2016/06/23/the-bio-pilgrymme-part-iv-the-linnaeanne-brotherhood/" target="_blank"><i>Bio-Pilgrymme, Part IV: The Linnæanne Brotherhood</i></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ironsleet.com/2016/07/06/the-bio-pilgrymme-interlude-the-crataegus-lament/" target="_blank"><i>Bio-Pilgrymme, Interlude: The Crataegus Lament </i></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">re will be a full battle report on </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ironsleet.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Iron <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">leet</span></span></span></i></b></span></span></span></span></a> in due time<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Un<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">til then I have attached a<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> small hand<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ful of images here - and</span></span> please do check Instagram for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/pilgrym/" target="_blank"><i>#pilgrym</i></a> for more images of the game unfolding.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The Pilgrym Seal is broken and cards are dealt.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> A secret alliance is forged deep in the darkness of the Botanicarium!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Sverre Arrheniusse is only a very short move from reaching the Pilgrym - the key to the Green Room...was it not for Lazaros the Kinder Fetcher!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Post Pilgrym #1: As it turns out this is a very fitting summer reading for a devoted disciple of the Green Mechanicvm...</i></span></div>
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Haggwers and the Daerwynne Palimpsest I urge you to visit Iron Sleet
(via the links above). Make sure to check back often and see all the other madness going on there during the spring and summer of 2016.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here I will just quickly add to what is being said on Iron Sleet that </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">my work on the Lost Mechanicvm is a thorough exploration of 'uncanny doublings and weird
morphologies' in the weathered worlds of 40K in the 42nd Millennium. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inspired by <i><a href="http://darlan.dk/" target="_blank">my work on forests at AAA</a></i>, forest myths,
Johns wickedly fine <i><a href="http://ironsleet.com/2015/01/18/john-blanche-the-voodoo-forest/" target="_blank">Voodoo-stuff</a></i>, an incredible sketch by the ever
talented <i><a href="http://miniatextures.blogspot.dk/" target="_blank">Jakob Rune Nielsen</a></i> (watch this space!!), Johan Egerkrans idea
of <i><a href="http://convertorum.blogspot.dk/2015/08/the-hunter.html" target="_blank">Thorn Moons</a></i>, <i><a href="http://firstpointofaries.blogspot.dk/2015/01/melancholia-iii-part-i-on-holloways-and.html" target="_blank">holloways</a></i> and a lot more! </span></span><br />
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it being the harrowed streets of Queen Mab or the century old holloways of
central Britain, are linear only in a simple sense. The latter is rather, maybe
more than anything, <i>wooden enclosures shaped by man over centuries in which rifts
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relationship Robert Pogue Harrison beautifully elaborates in his <i>Forests – the Shadow of Civilization </i>(1992)
in which he unfolds how forests have played a major role throughout history in
shaping us – as much as we have shaped them. </span><span lang="EN-GB">From Ovid’s <i>Metamorphoses</i>,
in which the goddess Artemis transforms Actaeon into a stag while he is hunting
in the forest transforming him into the hunted, to Michelangelo Frammartino’s
amazingly beautiful and highly recommendable cinematographic work <i>Alberi</i>, a visual tour de force of sight
and sound depicting a strange annual tradition in Southern Italy of celebrating
’tree men’ of a local forest, it is, <i>fundamentally</i>,
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III</b> </i></span>has in itself changed and transformed into a project of another scale and
timespan</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">including collaborative terrain building with an old friend and a pilgrimage to the heart of the Imperium. Both share the same </span></span></span></span>DNA drawn from this relationship and the plethora of ‘weird morphologies and uncanny
doublings’ that have emerged from it</span><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">In short, it<i><b> </b></i>has turned into <i>a pilgrimage</i> in itself fuelled by a profound
fascination of the weathered worlds of the 41<sup>st</sup> and </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">42<sup>nd</sup></span></span></span></span> Millennium and humanity’s
relationship with the concept of ‘nature’ in a galaxy of untold worlds torn by war
and strife.</span></span></span></span></div>
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F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-41705558757203567792015-12-22T00:37:00.002+01:002015-12-22T08:40:21.646+01:00Intermezzo: Hinodian Bounty Huntress<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> am working slowly but <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">focused (!) </span>on my Melancholia III-project but </span>have recently finished <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">building <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span></span> <i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Hi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nodian </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bount<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y Hunt<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ress</span></span></span></b></span></i> and she is <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">now ready for p<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aint.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hails from</span></span> the hive world of Meiji Prime<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>placed in the Hinode System on the fringes of the Dalthus Sector...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hinode System is named after the red giant Hinode, which is a star</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
in its later phases of stellar evolution: Its outer atmosphere being
inflated and tenuous, making its radius immense and its surface temperature
low. </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hinode</span>
is placed in an area of space where sun worshipping seemingly is on the
rise. This is particularly the case in the neighbouring <b><i><a href="http://www.exprofundis.com/blog-3/" target="_blank">Profundis System</a></i></b>, which falls under the protection of the reclusive Sun Titans who also <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">appear</span> - albeit sporadically - in the sacred <i>Liber Chronicarum of Hinode </i>where they are referred to as sun gods of legend. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hinodians </span>on M<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eiji Prime </span>celebrate the deeply orange and slowly fading light of
Hinode as a pure embodiment of the God Emperor and the distant Sol
System. Especially the horizon spanning sunset during the almost
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The</span> <i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hinodian Bounty Huntress</span></b></span></i> is based on the incredibl<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e</span> Nurgle Chaos Lord.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inspired heavily by John Blanches excellent Femme Militant! </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is blind from sun gazing. </span>Apart from an integrated firethrower and <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">solblade</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">she wields </span>a <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">H</span>inodian shield<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her vol<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">upt<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uousness and bare scalp is a homage to Hinode. She </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is covered in sacred symbols and relics also <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in homage</span> to <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the red giant..</span>. </span><br />
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<br />F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-42096805190198715052015-03-29T00:58:00.001+01:002015-03-29T00:58:33.627+01:00An Equinoxe, a Solar Eclipse and two wolvesI will be venturing into the Norwegian boreal for some time to celebrate the coming spring and returning daylight on the Northern Hemisphere. A celebration also relevant here, inspired as FPOA is by equal amounts of day and night, sun and moon.<br />
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On March 20th, the day of the spring equinox itself, the sun was eclipsed by the moon on the Northern Hemisphere, marking the astronomical spring with an amazing celestial occurence.<br />
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My travels to the north means that I will be running out of time to finish my Wulfen in time for the Invitational deadline. But he will be travelling with me in crates of paint together with his two finished wolves, one black and one pale white (of course!) and my daylight lamp, so that the threesome can be uploaded when I return from the fells of the north in the second week of April.<br />
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Until then I am very honoured to be able to show you two other Space Wolves: First and foremost a recent gift from a very good friend. Ragnar Blackmane in all his ferocious glory. Painted in style by Jakob Rune Nielsen. Secondly my own version painted in the mid-1990es with handpainted banners and a slightly (only slightly) different colourscheme than Mcveys original Blackmane paintjob from the same period.<br />
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Jakobs version is amazing and I will try to achieve a similar scheme on the Wulfen: Dark grey, deep gold and red.<br />
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<br />F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-80721361847025268472015-03-03T23:30:00.000+01:002015-03-03T23:30:22.961+01:0013th returnedThe <b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">13th Wulfen Lord Modi</span></i></b> has rerturned from the unfathomable perils of the Æther with his two Fenrisian wolves! A huntsman
loyal beyond measure who has searched for his beloved Primarch in the
Eye of Terror for millennia and now, <i>to heed a special calling</i>, returned through the eye to wage war on the foes of his Northern brethren.<br />
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The threesome belong to a body of work more than a decade old and it is my contribution to the <i><b><a href="http://ironsleet.com/2015/02/26/invitational-the-end-of-the-first-half-is-in-sight/" target="_blank">1st Invitational over at</a><a href="http://ironsleet.com/2015/02/26/invitational-the-end-of-the-first-half-is-in-sight/" target="_blank"> Iron Sleet.</a></b></i><br />
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They take as their point of departure my deep fascination of Nordic mythology
grounded as it is in Nordic landscapes and weather. This, I think, makes it a fitting entry in the Invitational - <b><i>Iron Sleet</i> </b>itself initiated by a group of mad Norsemen working with weather and atmosphere more than anything else.<br />
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I began working on the Wulfen Lord and his wolves after returning home from Golden Demon UK 2003. He was intended for the UK Golden Demon in 2004 but I never got around to finish him. Since then he has been lost for almost a decade, probably in the Warp. But a recent spark of imagination and new inspiration from the extremely talented hands of Migsula, who is working on <b><i><a href="http://ironsleet.com/tag/vlka-fenryka/" target="_blank">his mindblowingly beautiful Vlka Fenryka</a></i></b>, have resulted in the Wulfen Lord and his two Fenrisian wolves going from early WIPs to being finally done and ready for paint.<br />
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In 2003 I had built my Space Wolf Lord Odin and his personal entourage of Space Wolf Valkyries in true scale, dwarfing the normal size of standard marines. For the Wulfen Lord I decided to go all in on scale.<br />
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As such, <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><i>13th Wulfen Lord Modi</i></b></span> has been built around a Demon Prince sculpted by Juan Diaz at the turn of the millenium. It has been
heavily converted by changing the pose of the original model and adding a large variety of sculpted elements like jewellery, totems, banners, cables,
chains and drilled-out skulls. The areas where armour and fur have merged together were
all sculpted to show that he, marked as he is by a flaw in his gene-seed and exposed to
the perils of the warp for thousands of years, has mutated into a
giant wolfman fused with his Astartes armour.<br />
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Apart from the remnants of his personal belongings like backpack, shields (the round shield with two interlocking wolves was originally intended for a major Valkyrian Shieldbearer), family
emblems and a selection of important battle trophies he is also covered in wolf totems, tributes and
seals marking him as the true warrior god he has become. One of the few who have fought alongside Russ himself.<br />
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With the wolves I wanted to utilise the idea behind the Invitational in order to emphasize the size of the Wulfen Lord. While the first of his two wolves has been outfitted with a
longrange weapon (inspired in part by Neil101s excellent new <b><i><a href="http://opusmaius.blogspot.dk/2015/02/envoys-of-russ.html" target="_blank">Envoys of Russ over at Opus Maius</a></i></b>) all that remains of the second wolf is a handcrafted
Servo Skull still heeding the call of its master. <br />
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In his right hand <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><i>13th Wulfen Lord Modi</i></b></span> still holds aloof - after aeons in the Æther - the family staff of his Primarch adorned with pledges, wows and seals
of faith honouring the Alfather (to be added after painting the staff). In his left hand he wields a Lightning Claw, which has merged with his body being one of the few parts of his original Astartes armour
still fully recognisable.<br />
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<i>The result is a behemoth of man, Astartes and wolf! </i>F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-14746580295416622692015-02-05T09:35:00.001+01:002015-02-17T19:05:12.800+01:00The InvitationalIn my imagination <i>Iron Sleet is weather</i>.<br />
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Numbing weather thundering across the burdened worlds of the 40K galaxy, mesmerising and all-encompassing. More than snow, rain and storm combined. Much more.<br />
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<i>It is 40K weather in its rawest form.</i><br />
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A fitting image for the work that is emerging from the warp through the hands - and minds - of Kari, Mikko and Migs over at Iron Sleet, which is very fast becoming a beacon of creativity, artistry and inspiration in the Æther world of 40K.<br />
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Apart from Migs mindblowingly beautiful <i>Vlka Fenryka</i>, Fenrisian weather reincarnate, Mikkos excellent <i>Brotherhood of Steal</i> and Karis amazing <i>Hounds of Valon</i>, they have managed to gather together some of the most talented individuals in the hobby in a very short time.<br />
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<i><b><a href="http://ironsleet.com/2015/02/01/iron-sleet-invitational-all-your-bases-are-belong-to-us/" target="_blank">Also, they have just announced the first Iron Sleet Invitational here! </a></b></i><br />
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Standing in my Cabinets of Wonders are three very early WIP's of my entries-to-be. If I manage to get them done in time for April 1st they will be in an amazingly good company, so for that alone...</div>
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<br />F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-60811550294098719472015-01-16T19:32:00.000+01:002015-12-12T12:57:16.368+01:00Melancholia III, part I: On Holloways and Harrowed Paths<div class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been re-reading Dan Abnett’s excellent <b><a href="http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/pariah-ebook.html" target="_blank"><i>Pariah</i></a></b> and was once again struck by one of the great concepts appearing in the book. A concept, which in turn have inspired me to begin my third Melancholia project and a further exploration into the ‘anatomy of melancholy’: <br /><br />In <i>Pariah</i> the city of Queen Mab is criss-crossed with an irregular scheme of holloways and harrowed paths, which, according to Abnett, are sacred ways, streets of the vast city that are distinguished because they felt the actual step of Saint Orphaeus when he trod upon its world during his pilgrimage of grace many centuries before the story unfolds (Abnett, 2012).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The concept may have been inspired by Abnett’s own surroundings in Kent. Here long distance pathways like the <i>North Downs Way</i> and the <i>Pilgrims Way</i> between Winchester and Canterbury run along the chalk ridgeways of the high hills. In some places the ridgeways are linked to the lower levels of the river valleys by sunken lanes and holloways that are routes where footsteps over thousands of years of pilgrimage have worn a passage into the soft chalk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the words of Abnett’s peer Robert Macfarlane in his beautiful book <i>Holloway</i>, which coincidentally was published in 2012 – the same year as Abnett’s <i>Pariah</i> – a holloway is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>A sunken path, a deep & shady lane. A route
that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll & rain-run have harrowed
into the land. A track worn down by the traffic of ages & the fretting of
water […] They are landmarks that speak of habit rather than suddenness. Like
creases in the hand, or the wear of the stone sill of a doorstep or stair, they
are the result of repeated human actions.</i></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: DA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b> </b> </span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In Queen Mab the holloways are silent and dusty, almost all colour gone and flaked, sanded down by centuries of weather. <i>They are home to the destitute and the warblind</i> (Abnett, 2012). Macfarlane echoes this description when he in <i>Holloway</i> describe some holloways also as ‘fearways, danger-ways, coffin-paths, corpse-ways and ghostways.’ (Macfarlane, 2012) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many of those that have walked <span style="font-family: inherit;">such</span> old ways have experienced them as places within which one might slip back out of the ordinary world and within which ghosts softly flock. For some, walking them is a wordless conversation <i>between ghosts and ghosts-to-be</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><i>Melancholia III</i></b></span> I will try to convey this - and that some certain old paths are linear only in a simple sense. That some paths are <i>echospaces</i> where past and present - like trees - have branches and - like rivers - have tributaries. That some paths, in the strikingly beautiful words of Macfarlane, are: </span><br />
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surface, prone to recapitulation & rhyme, weird morphologies, uncanny
doublings.</span></i></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">(Macfarlane, 2012) </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where <i>Melancholia I</i> and <i>Melancholia II </i>were about sight and sound respectively <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><i>Melancholia III</i></b></span> will be all about warblindness and otherworldly, treecovered silence!</span>F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-41177633901390934602015-01-04T11:18:00.003+01:002015-01-04T11:18:42.510+01:00The Sanctioned One<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was inten<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ded as a last post of 2014 has become the first post of 2015<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My</span> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">third<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>project <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the year</span>, which was initiated </span></span></span>w</span>hile </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">preparing for a Golden Demon many moons ago<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back then </span></span>I was struck by the
amazingly vibrant and atmospheric sketches by John Blanche of inquisitor
characters roaming the dystopian worlds of the Imperium of Man. In his sketches these characters became weathered in the truest sense of the word - depicting not only the characters but also, and maybe even more so, the worlds they inhabit.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together with Dan Abnett's ongoing series of Eisenhorn<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span>Ravenor and Bequin, which I truly enjoy reading, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Inquisitor Sketchbook</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by John Blanche has been and still is one of the most important and inspirational publications in my small collection of Games Workshop/Black Library Publications. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only does it give shape to </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ressurectionists</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adeptus Mechanicus Cultists</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rogue Traders</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whip Mistresses</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Witch Seekers</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidith Priests</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fire Redemptionists</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chrono Gladiators</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lex Mechanics</i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but it also sparked my imagination and in turn the initiation of my two recently finished <i>Melancholia projects</i> as well as<i> Melancholia III</i>, which is on its way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During my ongoing process of rediscovery in 2014 I decided to finish the important works I never got around to finish before disappearing into the boreal many moons ago. Many of them have been well hidden for almost a decade but have now resurfaced and are seeing final work done to them. My Cabinet of Wonders is slowly expanding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My recently finished version of a <i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Sanctioned Bounty Hunter</b></span> </i>was inspired by a Blanche sketch depicting a <i>Sanctioned Alien Bounty Hunter </i>appearing in his sketchbook. It was intended to be part of a Golden Demon entry a decade ago. This made 2014 a ten year jubilee of sorts and a good year to finish it and in the process give homage to the great and creative artist that was the inspiration behind it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, it is a proper first post of 2015 as it fits very well into the theme of FPOA by showing that the divine light of the Emperor works in truly mysterious ways; </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this case making a hunter of the hunted.</span>..</i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His chains of enslavement are broken and he is standing aloof some shattered remains of his foes. Apart from a lot of added small details like the inquisition seal of sanctioned enlistement</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, personal totems and various Imperial insignia showing <i>The Sanctioned One's</i> devotion to the cause, he is wielding two slightly altered hunting rifles from his home world, various types of purity seals and handcrafted Xeno bullets. Also he is being assisted by a specially crafted Servo Skull intented to search out the aliens he is sanctioned to hunt...</span><br />
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F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-60101127584916475842014-12-26T11:58:00.004+01:002014-12-29T13:03:02.819+01:00An Imperial Knight and inspirational reads<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the end of 2014 I will post my third completed miniature of 2014: An Imperial relic from the past originally built as part of a Golden Demon entry in 2004 and now, <i>a decade later</i>, found and finished - and part of my (luckily) growing Cabinet of Wonders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First of all one of my favourite treats of this December has been the Christmas Countdown over at <b><i><a href="http://miniatextures.blogspot.dk/" target="_blank">Miniatextures</a></i></b> by the ever-so-talented Jakob Rune Nielsen. It was a pleasure to follow his journey of finishing an Imperial Knight in 24 days - and even though the result is a true beauty it is the experimentation and testing of new colours and techniques, which I really want to compliment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly I have been re-reading Dan Abnett's <a href="http://he experimentation and testing of new colours and techniques, which I really want to compliment." target="_blank"><i><b></b></i></a><i><b><a href="http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/pariah-ebook.html" target="_blank">brilliant Pariah</a> </b></i>and <b><i><a href="http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/perihelion-ebook.html" target="_blank">Perihelion</a></i></b> on the recommendable Alizabeth Bequin and the continued journeys of Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor: A re-reading which has inspired me to begin <i>a third Melancholia</i> piece, which I look forward to share with you in 2015!</span><br />
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F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-90428013252754057962014-10-05T19:36:00.000+02:002014-12-29T13:03:49.843+01:00Ravens gathering!<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a year of wandering, in solitude, tired and weary, among rooks and ravens in the shadows of dark Northern forests, I have found my way home to the dimly lit hallways of FPOA...at least for a while as I will most likely loose myself in the boreal once again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">From craggy and pinecovered fells I have brought with me a small but precious - for me at least - collection of relics, which have been lost for many moons. The first two, <i>Melancholia I and II</i>, are in many ways thought of as a pair. They are <i>beacons of sight and sound</i>, now found and finished:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Together they make up a small entourage fitting the theme of FPOA eloquently balancing as they are between the visible and invisible worlds of the darkness of the Warp and the light of the God Emperor. And as I have hinted at in earlier FPOA posts there may - literally - be more than what initially meets <i>the eye</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">A hunchbacked servant of the Ecclesiarchy preaching the echoes of a millionstrong choir of dying God Emperor devotees. Echoes which can still be heard as a musical discord, an ambient resonance of prayers past, in <b><i><a href="https://soundcloud.com/dreambient/echo-priest" target="_blank">the vast soundclouds of the Imperium here</a></i></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As my painting skills are rusty to say the least the painting process has been trial and error - experimenting mainly with inks and glazes in order to paint more quickly than I used to in the past. So <i>Melancholia I and II </i>represent my point zero. From here onwards I intend to progress and get both better and faster.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But these relics of the past are not all I bring back with me to FPOA from the cold north: </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Secondly</i>, one dreary night while stumbling my way back to FPOA through the boreal I caught glimpses of what appeared to be weathered figures twice the size of ordinary men. Soaring among the craggy pines of the fells. Their distant voices were coarse, rasping and leathery. Like archaic drones they bore through the dimly lit forests with a deep and resonant sound of dry parchment, which, like a palimpsest, had several layers of tones intertwined in each other.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Echo Priest was to be a beacon of holy</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, hissing, analogue, mechanical, vox-com sound</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> in a silent and forgotten corner of the vast Imperium - the drifting dark hulk of the Arkke.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sadly I didnt manage to finish the miniature before the event took place in April. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instead, as I really wanted to have at least <i>the idea of the Echo Priest</i> present in the Arkke during the game, I managed to pursuade | D R E A M B I E N T | to compose a fitting soundpiece, which PDH played at a certain moment during the game:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">| D R E A M B I E N T | is electronic sound making by composer Martin Darlan Boris, who among other things collaborates with astronomers in the US and Europe. A collaboration I thought was fitting for a game of Warhammer 40K, set as it was, in a dark corner of the galaxy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I look forward to share with you the finished Echo Priest...until then please do check out some of the other compositions at </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">| D R E A M B I E N T | :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/dreambient" target="_blank">| D R E A M B I E N T | </a> </span><br />
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<br />F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-34869623085244124752013-03-17T09:26:00.002+01:002014-12-29T12:59:28.195+01:00Remember the future!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since my 2013 New Years Eve post on rooks and walking I have been away from most hobby stuff. I have had to concentrate mostly on family and my work at the Aarhus School of Architecture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But during the short life span of FPOA it has become an important place for me to share not only hobby stuff but also the stuff that inspires me as a hobbyist. I get immensely inspired by reading and recently fell upon a beautiful text on Mexican novellist Carlos Fuentes who, in his </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>La gran novela latinoamericana / The Great Latin American Novel</i> (2011), wrote something worth remembering - the future:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The future of FPOA is uncertain, but I imagine that some of the past pieces already shown will be finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Until then I would love to direct you to a couple of sites that have also been a great source of inspiration for me during the first months of 2013 (you guys probably know them already, but as the guys behind the sites are such great talents they can easily bear repeating):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today, on the last day of the year, I went walking in a local wood with my family. At some point we came to a gathering of 13 empty rooks nests in some tall trees. A very fitting number, which reminded me of a book I am reading at the moment, <i>Wildwood - A Journey Through Trees</i> by late Roger Deakin. He writes of rooks that they in the gaity of their hearts attempt to sing, but with no great success:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take care and all the best for the coming evening. See you next year.</span><br />
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F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-35863219803769920542012-11-28T19:06:00.001+01:002014-12-29T12:58:36.559+01:00I see not!The Ecclesiarchy Echo Priest is well underway but some days ago I coincidentally stumbled upon a perfect addition to my <a href="http://firstpointofaries.blogspot.dk/2012/10/melancholia-i.html" target="_blank">Melancholia Project</a> while rumaging through my precious metals.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A blindfolded Cherub from a SoB cape, which fits perfectly into the theme of the Melancholia Project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the Melancholia Project there is now three minis (excluding a servo skull). Paradoxically the only one capable (or allowed) to see "properly" is the blind Navigator who <i>kindly</i> has assisted in blindfolding his servants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It reminds me somewhat of Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities</i> and the city of Zemrude where<i> </i>ones<i> "gaze will be held on the ground, in the gutters, the manhole covers, the fish scales, wastepaper,"</i> and further that:</span><i><br /></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Added some more flowing robes in order to really capture the sense of him flying. I am working on a single servo skull which will assist him. </span><br />
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F P O Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794613288553530077noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459231540324558169.post-10885214916895893522012-11-18T22:08:00.000+01:002014-12-29T12:58:12.309+01:00=][= Ecclesiarchy Echo Priest Part I<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In between painting my Melancholia Project - where I am now almost done with the blindfolded servant - I do other stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The current project being an <i><b>=][= Ecclesiarchy Echo Priest</b></i>. A concept of my own devising inspired by Migsulas wonderful <i><a href="http://legionofplastic.blogspot.dk/2012/11/chaide-mirror-master-and-solar-cultist_14.html" target="_blank">Mirror Master</a></i> as well as referencing the title of my blog, which in turn is inspired by a wonderful <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_BA-YpI-E" target="_blank"><i>Echospace</i></a> track.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I imagine <i>Ecclesiarchy Echo Priests</i> as part of a million strong choir spanning star systems echoing the dying voices of uncountable God Emperor devotees. Where the Navigator of my Melancholia I project is a beacon of sight, an <i>Ecclesiarchy Echo Priest</i> is a beacon of sound!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hissing, analogue, mechanical, vox-com sound echoing a thousand dying souls each. In the words of Michel Serres (read it while thinking of Migs Mirror Master too):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">But I have more or less finished one third of my <i>Melancholia I</i> project. The Navigator is as good as done. Next up are the two other parts of the project; servant and base. When all three parts are done I will go over the Navigator again to touch up on seals (highlights), reds and probably some more layers of glazing on the robe/skin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">As he is the main character of the project (maybe!) I wanted him to be very white-ish and pale so that he really stands out from the servant as well as the dark base I am building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although almost hunchbacked I like the tall slim shape of the main character together with the hunched, almost crawling, one-legged, ball-carrying servant. I also like how both are using a staff/crutch as a reference to C.D. Friedriechs <i>Wanderer above the Sea of Fogs</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Inspired by JRNs post on <a href="http://miniatextures.blogspot.dk/2012/11/stuff-to-read-pariah-and-white-dwarf.html" target="_blank">reads</a> I have added a picture of two of my current reads (Ravenor the Omnibus was at the bed table when I took the shot): <i>Gardens</i> by Robert Pogue Harrison and <i>=I= Sketchbook</i> by Blanche...the latter serves as a perfect backdrop for photo-shoots, the first is just a beautiful take on gardens and the vocation of care.</span><br />
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done with the paintjob of the Imperial Navigator himself and will continue with the
small servant. I will share the first series of pictures in my next post. Before I
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I really liked Melancholia. Not only because of the extraordinarily beautiful images
but also because of the paradoxes of melancholy hinted at by
Trier. Being both a mental as well as bodily state. Both life envigorating and
life destroying. Both capable of being harnessed and uncontrollable.<br /><br />As I believe I am a practising
melancholic at times I thought that kickstarting with Triers Melancholia would be a fitting first post on FPOA. It really
intruigues me. I guess there is a fine line between
romantiscism and melancholy and in a brilliantly twisted way both play an important role in the artwork of the dystopian and beautiful worlds of Warhammer - as it does for Trier in Melancholia:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I read Triers statement as a hint towards melancholy as a physical state of the body being able to be incorporated as a key element in miniatures. Balancing ugliness and the edge of plastic. I come to think of the book <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Anatomy of Melancholy</span></span>
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reference to Triers Melancholia, The Anatomy of Melancholy as well as
some important artworks by Blanche and Casper David Friedrich I am
working on a 40K Inquisitor Navigator (based on a converted sculpt
by the talented hands of Danish sculptor Tue Kaa) and a blindfolded
servant (based on a converted Mordheim Dreg).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">This piece is my first FPOA Project: <i>Melancholia I</i>. I look forward to it!</span><br />
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