Ferndale Snart & Beli
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| As always there is a fox about town. |
Second one from my occasional (grand) plan to complete the Orcs Drift scenario with 80/90s figures. This time the druid Ferndale Snart and Beli (Dwarven patient suffering from shell shock). I have chosen the excellent Druid from the Talisman range. Again this is a figure I got as a birthday present back in the 80s , lost and rebought a couple of years ago (there seems to be a theme developing here...). The other connection is that this is a figure design based on a drawing by Gary Chalk.
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| Gary Chalk - Ferndale at Orcs Drift |
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| The original Gary Chalk Talisman Druid drawing |
Ferndale is a druid, hired to carry out medical duties for the army of the Grand Alliance but has a drink problem (this seemed Ok in the 80s). But this is probably a nod to the film Zulu with Jack Hawkins's character Otto Witt - the dunkard priest. He provides the heavy duty magical support for the beleaguered defenders of Orcs Drift but this comes with a price as he is trying to get his patients away to safety during the course of the scenario and is a pacifist. So only has defensive spells.
Rob
There's also a drunken druid in one of the Conan stories I recall (Shadows over Stygia?). Garrison miniatures did a figure of him clutching a sickle and wine cup. Strangely had a 17c song playing earlier called "Tomorrow the fox will come to town".
ReplyDeleteThe Talisman druid strikes me as very capable individual unlike Ferndale. But he a great mini.
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