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134. Our EXCLUSIVE sculpts for LegionsCon 2025. · The Euro Legions Podcast

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  My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
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  I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
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  It turns out that Attila the arrogant so and so he's got a
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  fake hammer. Oh.
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  A fake? Yeah.
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  Whoa. As I say, Dick.
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  Welcome to episode 134 of the Allegiance Podcast.
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  And this week we're going to talk about our exclusive scopes
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  for Allegiance Can 2025. A lot of them this year because
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  eh, Rich went crazy and eh, we get to there.
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  And then we're also going to eh as a kind of parallel to that
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  and talk about Rich's dog faction.
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  What are they called? Rich the dogs.
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  Eh, the the actual factions called the Lichen leagues, but
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  they're the canine companies within that.
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  OK, so I'll change on my fine names now.
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  I just had those, those bloody dogs.pdf and stuff.
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  No, they are very cool. As you, as everyone.
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  We'll see. And man, how are you?
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  I'm good, I'm good. Yeah.
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  Yep. Man, you win a match recently or
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  at the weekend? Yeah.
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  But by the time this has gone out, we probably lost again.
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  I mean, I mean, yeah, it was a great result for the weekend.
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  And you had a little hand in designing our big exclusive or
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  our large exclusive items? I did something I'll talk about
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  a bit later, but yeah, I mean, it is very similar to some art
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  that he's out there already, but.
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  We don't need to worry about that.
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  You know it's the. Concept.
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  Yeah, well, yeah, it's different.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. And eh, I didn't have much hand
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  in any of these, although I did have some feedback on the big
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  item eh in relation to its arse. So I just leave it with that.
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  The big. Thing that makes.
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  The unique selling. Point is the.
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  Arse. We should say that reveal right
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  to the very end of the show, so everybody has to listen all the
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  way through it to find out what the ass is, Yeah.
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  Even through all your dog bullshit.
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  Even through all my dog stories, yeah.
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  Right, right, radio. And we had all the excitement
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  last week, so that was fun. So we're going to take you back
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  down to Earth with the a little bit of a.
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  No, our stuff we can. We're going to raise the
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  excitement even. Further into order our.
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  Yeah, further into order is. Getting available allegiance
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  con. Only getting.
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  John Sound. Exciting.
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  And we're going to do a couple a couple more episodes, eh,
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  related to allegiance Con in the run up.
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  I mean, that's obvious enough for our show.
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  Hopefully a guide to legions Con kind of beginner's guide.
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  And we're going to have some first timers on as well.
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  Another episode to talk about their excitement for the first
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  time and we're going to try and, I don't know, pop their balloons
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  in terms of excitement or ramp it up even further.
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  I don't know. What do you think, Rich?
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  Uh, I met up with the said people a couple of weeks back in
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  person and I think I did both of those things.
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  So yeah. You should.
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  Probably. How did you how did you pop the
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  balloon? Sorry.
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  Umm, we don't need to discuss it here, OK?
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  So you told them about smell in A room?
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  Yeah, no, but Mal snoring did come up in conversation.
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  Oh, that is, that is classic. Because I'm the only one who
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  snores obviously out of US 3. You were just first to bed that
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  night. You were trying to come in there
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  but rudely cut you off. But have we?
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  Have we ruined it now? I said you were trying to come
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  in there. Oh, I don't.
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  Know I was going to say if anyone came into that room and
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  hurt us all they'd wonder what was they think it was the end of
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  the world or something wouldn't they they.
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  Would think they would think there's a plastic avalanche
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  happening in the room. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  That's the last day, isn't it? Be like during the during the
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  crime at night with all the snoring and then the next
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  morning was just the the remnants of the crime and
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  there's plastic. Everywhere.
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  Like what were they doing here? What were they doing here?
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  I recently got my Cosmic legions ox cruise.
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  Of course they did. The only right thing was to put
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  a bride fighter's head on the Thraxian.
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  So. Absolutely defiled that figure.
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  And then? Bride fighters.
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  Yeah, I know. It's terrible.
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  I find it shouldn't be in Cosmic really.
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  This little guy is a fun as heck as well.
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  Yeah, I still need to open him, I think.
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  Of ours, so good and I didn't think I'd ordered any extras.
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  And then I got an e-mail from a retailer that I normally don't
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  use and it obviously had the best prices, so I have six more
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  than I have to pay for. Wow, which ones?
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  Did you get? I got an over 2 traxions and I
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  got Kern Ray twice I guess for the parts and the soft goods.
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  And did I get 2 overs then? No, I got another What?
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  What other one did I get one more Caloria?
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  No, wasn't those oh another OK, because he's so unique.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. So and probably what I would
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  have still got so I'm happy with that, but I've.
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  Got I've got a Kern Ray and athraxian and I thinking of the
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  skate back pre-ordered and I was getting after I was going to
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  leap on and buy more. I was like they'll have them at
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  legions con. I'll wait till then and pick up,
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  you know, and that's. What I would have said to my
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  past self, yeah, considering I have dollars, you know, in my
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  safe that, you know, could be spent instead of the money in my
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  bank account that's now going to have to be spent. 12 to get
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  dollars yeah I'm. Going to be both.
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  So I ordered, I've told you guys, I ordered three more from
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  Emporium 2 veil locks and an over just because we weighed
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  them, didn't we? And they were like twice the
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  weight of a normal figure. It's like, well, that's going to
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  take up suitcase space or wait. So I've got to, I've got to get
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  these in advance. So nerdy.
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  Yeah, it's a fine thing. You've got to like Chris
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  everything, you know? Yeah, like shows where they've
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  got like, you know, the genius and there's just lights going
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  off in his head and he's doing all that.
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  That's me basically with suitcase organising and packing
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  stuff. Yeah, I mean, but it wasn't that
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  We're going to talk grammes now. So as apologies to anyone that
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  uses the much more logical answers and and and pounds and
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  stuff. And it was 170 grammes, I think
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  a standard Fisher Rise figure by weight and over was nearly 400
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  grammes. Yeah, I think it's 9060.
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  Or 370 or something. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah. And Veloc was, Veloc was very
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  similar, maybe, maybe the same. So yeah.
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  And then you have all the accessories and stuff.
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  I mean, you know, some of them come with a lot of accessories.
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  So I think that is a good way to save weight in the in the
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  luggage, you know, and that's, I weighed a box as well.
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  It's a half a kilo as a box. So you know.
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  But yeah, that's getting heavier then.
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  If you consider, you know the suitcase limit is what, 23
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  kilos? 23 kilos, yeah.
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  That's a you're. Gonna get 46 home.
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  It's ridiculous. Plus your clothes and all that.
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  Like, you know, clothes, even if clothes can you lack even if you
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  unbox them, you would never get like you'd think you'd think you
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  could fit 1015 figures in your bag wouldn't make much weight
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  difference. You know it's going to push your
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  way over the left there unless you're going with an empty bag
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  basically and you stink for the whole weekend.
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  See ya look OK, I'm listeners guys that are rinsing after
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  underpants in the sink. I don't ask what they're doing
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  in between waiting for it to dry right.
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  We get on to the main event because otherwise they'll get
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  very deep red. So EUR legions legions con 2025
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  exclusive scopes. We had two last year.
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  We were we thought we were Billy big balls with our two awesome
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  head scopes. You know, I did one, worked with
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  from prop masters and Mal did one and yeah, it's all good.
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  And then eh Rich came along this year and said hold my beer.
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  Yeah, I've got a problem. No yet say that.
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  Yeah. That's basically what it is
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  though, Mal. Yeah.
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  It's like, you know, I could do 2 or and hear me out here.
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  Well, we still were, you know, a couple of months ago, we were
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  still at the OK, let's do that big piece and we'll do an
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  alternate version of it and then we're good.
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  And then we said, I have an idea for some head sculpts maybe, you
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  know, and we. Started off with six and then
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  all of a sudden the dog bug bit me so that we had another 6 so.
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  What happens if you don't get them muted?
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  So all sculpted by Gianluca Cicarello, Italian sculptor and
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  and commissioned by us. So one or the other of us worked
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  with Gianluca to get these. And at Legions Con, all of the
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  prints will be done by our friend Anthony Hassil from Toy
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  Forge. I think you all know me.
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  If you're familiar with Legions Con, Legions community.
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  Anthony is a great customizer and printer as well.
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  Does loads of 3D printers, printing stuff.
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  So it's great that he's able to do that for us because that
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  saves us transporting all this stuff.
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  So you're minimising the breakage, you know, of the
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  Anthony still has to bring it from home, but you know, it's a
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  couple hours drive as opposed to airports and all that kind of
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  stuff. Hearing sharing baggage
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  handlers. Absolutely.
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  And some of the ones here are printed and painted by Mark
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  Calvo because Rich kind of got him to do them so he could have
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  some painted versions to show and yes, the his own collection.
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  Yeah, so the 12 head sculpts are all printed and painted by Mark.
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  So Mark has been busy boy. And so let's get on with it.
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  We're going to start with the dogs, which have been recently
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  posted by you in the Cabal and all the different places, Rich.
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  So we're just going to talk about the sculpt here and then
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  get a circle back around at the end and do the whole dog faction
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  story. So the first up, it's one of my
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  favourites is the pug. So where did this come from,
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  Rich? What was the inspiration behind
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  this? This one was inspired by
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  something I saw online actually ages ago.
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  And it was a somebody done a handful of drawings about dog
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  soldiers of various types, And one of them was a pug wearing a
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  hood. I think he was meant to be an
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  Archer. And I was like, oh, that's quite
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  a good idea. And I always just sat in the
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  back of my mind for ages. And then when I finally decided
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  to do some dog sculpts that ping back forward again, it was like,
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  yeah, here we go. But I love the fact, you know,
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  just the massive, bulging eyes, a little tongue sticking out.
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  It's, you know, it's a sweet character.
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  He's very cute. I mean, I definitely want this
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  one. You know, I'm definitely going
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  to get one of these even for myself, not just to paint and,
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  you know, said left the next convention or whatever.
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  So I really like a man with your Yeah, we use juice to both
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  cuteness. I help us.
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  This is this is joint favourite of the of the whole Yeah.
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  And I will be picking one of these up as well.
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  Yes, I think I might have to get a few a few more of these
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  printed and the other ones potentially had a lot of a lot
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  of positive feedback about the pug.
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  That's brilliant. That's brilliant.
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  And just to say, yeah, just to say in these pictures here and
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  these are your own custom versions, so you're not selling
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  these. Yeah, no, these on sale, these,
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  these are just the ones in my own collection.
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  Yeah. They'll be mostly unpainted.
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  I'm trying to get a couple printed locally just to paint,
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  but it'll be one or two and maximum of anyone and and that's
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  even if I get the time, but I'm going to try and not all of them
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  just to go a couple of select ones.
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  So and otherwise, yeah, it'll be unpainted versions.
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  And if you're a painter, brilliant.
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  And if not, you can find someone nearby to paint it or someone in
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  any legions con. If you like, Yeah.
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  So, John, I'm just going to say, if you really like the sculpts,
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  just buy them and painted from us.
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  Wander up to mark Caldo's table, hand in the sculpt and some
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  cash, and I'm sure we'll paint them up for you.
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  Yeah, it's in demand. Or, you know, that's and that's
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  what lots of people do. They have their favourite maybe
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  customizer painter and they buy a couple of unpainted ones and
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  bring them over and say, you know, after legions gone, when
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  you're back at home, can you paint them in your time and send
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  them on to me, you know, pay either pay legions gone or pay
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  afterwards. But it makes it easier.
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  Yeah, I should say as well with all the dog pictures, they've
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  got some really cool tab odds. These aren't ours.
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  These are ones that Joseph Connors, who's the same Smith on
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  Instagram made for me. So he, he often has sales in the
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  cabal. And then I bought a few and then
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  contacted him and said can you put some sigil, Yeah, tabard
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  sigil things on them if I send you the ideas sort of thing.
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  So yeah, that's where a lot came from.
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  So did he? Did he make the shapes?
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  I sent. I found the shapes online.
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  OK. Send them through to him and
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  then he did whatever magic he does.
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  Cut them out and I suppose, I suppose it's like they do
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  T-shirts. Isn't it a bit like that?
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  I think some. Sort of heat, heat up.
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  Transfer very cool so umm yeah so we didn't get into tablets.
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  Maybe next year we'll have some only.
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  Only four of us starts, you know, habitatry course or
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  something like that ourselves. Yeah, Chow chow then.
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  This is a cool one as well. Yeah, so I was, I was the idea
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  behind this was there was one particular dog breed, which
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  we'll get to later, which I or two really that I really wanted.
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  And then the others, it was like, what's a cool looking dog?
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  And if we do any more of these in the future, I might, I might
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  Chuck a couple of what's a popular breed in, you know, to,
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  to get people, you know, keen and exciting.
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  Outdoor red setter I've. Already had somebody mentioned
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  me. And have you got a Labrador in
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  the series? Like I don't.
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  I'm sorry, no. No, I'm done.
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  Sorry. No, yeah, the ironic thing, that
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  was another house seal. So, you know, one house seals
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  very happy printing these out. One house seals not happy
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  because there's no Labrador. Yeah.
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  So the the chow chows are just amazing dog for anyone who
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  hasn't seen him pull up some pictures online.
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  They're just huge. I mean, the big dogs anyway.
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  And the fur balls, just massive furballs.
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  So it's like, OK, yeah, that's really cool.
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  And there's like, but what else can I do to make him?
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  Oh, sorry. Well.
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  I was just going to say they look like dog shaped bare heads
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  don't they? Cuddly toy based on shaped?
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  Yeah. And I was like, what can I do,
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  though? I don't want him to cuddly
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  because he's a warrior. What can I, you know, what can I
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  do to make him a bit bit more hardcore?
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  So he's got an eye patch. He'd lost an eye in battle, but
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  it's still, you know, fighting on and slaying people left,
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  right, centre. Yeah, I think the eye patch
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  definitely gives some interest to him because that's the only
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  thing about this type of a sculpt in in 3D printing, it's,
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  it's hard, especially unpainted to see the the detail with the
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  fur, You know, it just looks like a big lump of fur.
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  So having something like the eye patch really breaks it up.
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  It's nice. Just almost to highlight where
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  the other eye is as well sort of thing because they are so furry.
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  If you look in a facial like I see a nose, but where the Hell's
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  his eyes? And painters are always happy
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  they only have to paint one eye instead of two minutes.
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  It's always a bonus, isn't it? But no I love this guy.
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  I should say with the tab arts too, it's the the dog sigil on
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  the tab arts is the same as the breed on each one.
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  Hopefully that's obvious to people, but if in case it's not
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  sort of thing so. And the colours?
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  Anything specific with the colours for you or just?
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  No, again, I just see, I Google image searched Chow Chows and
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  you know, they're all brownish, you know, orangey brown,
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  generic. But there was a particular one
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  that stood out as like, that's a cool colour scheme.
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  So yeah. OK, and the tabard colours.
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  Tabard Colours was it was based on what Joseph had for sale.
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  But I, I upset my 13 year old child by sitting it down and
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  going right which colour Tabards would work well best with a chow
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  chow and with a pug and with her and she's just like, Oh my God.
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  So we went through and we came up with ideas about which ones
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  we thought would work well. Brilliant father and daughter
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  activity. Why not?
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  Yeah, she was cursing me, but she took, you know, took full
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  part, bless her. Then she helped with the
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  colours, the colour of the sigil to go on the tabard as well.
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  So she was fully involved in this and then she named them.
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  So all the names in the stories that I'm going to read later are
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  all her work. Oh brilliant.
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  Nice. OK.
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  My favourite I think after the pug is the Saint Bernard St.
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  Bernard Yeah, it's I had, I had to get one of these guys.
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  They're, they're such an iconic dog, particularly with a little
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  barrel under their chins. So anyone that doesn't know
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  they're they're rescue dogs, like Alpine rescue dog dogs.
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  And quite often having sort of liquid, often alcoholic in the
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  barrel underneath their chin is like a, you know, we found you
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  here, let Brandy or something warming up a bit and then the
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  dog will drag you back out of the snow.
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  So, so I had to go for that sort of pic, that sort of look.
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  And some Bernards are lovely dogs, really lovely dogs.
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  Yeah, yeah. And the paint job here by Mark.
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  Marks I didn't realise until I asked him to paint these.
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  Mark's a dog trainer. That's what he does for a
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  living. Right.
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  Which I had no idea at all until he.
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  Mentioned it, he was like I knew.
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  You live in. I was like, no.
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  I knew he worked with animals in some capacity.
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  I didn't know exactly what, but I knew he worked with animals
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  because we talked about it briefly.
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  Legions gone, but it was, you know, in the one of those
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  scenarios where was late at night and drink involved and you
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  know, it was loud. That's my excuse.
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  I. Particularly like doing the
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  story for this guy because he's a drunk in the story and he's
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  got a battle around his neck and that sort of thing.
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  So it's like, you know, just just just go with it.
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  Yeah, I perhaps you didn't read your stories because I knew you
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  were going to do them on the show tonight.
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  And so I wanted to be surprised myself.
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  Excellent, so you might stay awake from then John as well,
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  rather than not enough. Yeah, well, as I said to you, I
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  have. I have my little chocolate here
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  that I didn't get to eat earlier because I was so busy.
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  So I'm waiting for your stories to kick off so I can put my
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  volume off and eat on camera. So Saint Bernard 10 out 10
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  Basset Hound Basset Hound Welsh colours on the on the table.
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  Yes, that wasn't accidental, even though the Basset Hound is
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  a French dog. Yeah, when I saw the green and
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  white is like, well I've got to go for red as the tabard as the
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  sigil colour rather on the tabard.
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  That's a no brainer. Also, the the helmet that he's
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  wearing is based on a French military helmet as well.
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  So I was trying to give them something that was, you know,
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  vaguely similar to where they came from.
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  Because it also works with the IT works with the height, the
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  length of the dogs. The dog is quite a long and
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  especially with the ears it gives it an elongated head and
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  that kind of helmet just seems to fit with that style head.
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  Yeah, umm, again, I picked the Basset Hand A, because they're
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  awesome dogs and B, just because they're cool looking with those
• 21:04
  giant ears. So it's like, what can I do
• 21:05
  That's that's a bit different. I don't know, someone could buy
• 21:08
  one of these and paint it like a Bloodhound if they wanted to,
• 21:10
  or, you know, other similar breeds you can do that with,
• 21:13
  with these sculpts sort of things.
• 21:14
  So yeah, I love him. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:20
  I mean, no, I'm not. I'm not a big Basset Hound fan,
• 21:24
  dog wise anyway, so it's cool. Rich's, he's Rich's custom is
• 21:29
  very good and Mark's paint is incredible.
• 21:32
  Yeah. But I don't mean John.
• 21:33
  It's not just a standing straight up pose either.
• 21:35
  He's got a. Little bit of.
• 21:37
  Little bit of action, Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 21:40
  Yeah. Are these barky dogs?
• 21:44
  I've never owned 1, so I don't know.
• 21:46
  Whenever I've seen Mountain about, they've always been
• 21:47
  quiet. It's weird that they're really
• 21:51
  chunky dogs, but they've got tiny little legs.
• 21:54
  So yeah, it's like a walking, you know, walk cleaner sort of
• 21:58
  thing. Yeah.
• 22:02
  Was it? I think it started off as a
• 22:03
  comic strip, but it was also a cartoon at one point called Fred
• 22:07
  Bassett, which was about a Bassett hound.
• 22:09
  I remember that as a kid. I.
• 22:11
  Recognise the name? Yeah, I don't remember the the
• 22:13
  strip, but. Same.
• 22:16
  Yeah, I'm a cat person, but I do like dogs.
• 22:20
  As long as they're not the yappy, yappy barky ones.
• 22:23
  Then then I like. Borrow those type of dogs, yeah.
• 22:27
  Yeah, yeah. I don't see you get what people
• 22:29
  see in them. It's it's more the shape and I
• 22:32
  can imagine the barking gets annoying, but it's more, Oh
• 22:34
  yeah, the way they look. Yeah, a lot of them are quite
• 22:36
  short furred as well. They're usually smaller as well,
• 22:39
  of course. Yeah.
• 22:40
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like. Lumps.
• 22:43
  Although we have two cats, I'm very, very much a dog person.
• 22:46
  Sorry, cats, wherever you are. Yeah, I remember.
• 22:49
  That from when you were. Young, yeah, I've been
• 22:50
  desperate, desperate to have some dog scorps and there's a,
• 22:53
  you know, there's a couple and one of those will be shown later
• 22:56
  on, but. OK, last.
• 23:02
  No, second. Last.
• 23:03
  Second. Last.
• 23:04
  So this is my joint favourite and this is the one that started
• 23:08
  all really. So it's a Rottweiler.
• 23:11
  So all the way through childhood, from about 12
• 23:13
  onwards, my parents had dropped violence.
• 23:14
  They've had four different ones in total.
• 23:18
  Gorgeous dogs, like really lovely dogs.
• 23:21
  I'd happily ever write by myself.
• 23:23
  We won't get one because my wife's only 5 foot ones.
• 23:25
  The dog could be as tall as her, but fabulous dogs.
• 23:29
  So it's like, right, OK, I want to write Viola but I want him
• 23:31
  wearing a military helmet. And then that sparked everything
• 23:33
  else. So again, German breeds.
• 23:36
  So I googled German, ancient German military helmet sort of
• 23:41
  thing, and this is the sort of look that a couple came up as.
• 23:43
  So it's like, yeah, that works. And Mark did AI mean Mark did a
• 23:47
  fabulous job on all the paint, all the paints.
• 23:49
  But this is absolutely spot on. And when I said to Mark I was
• 23:52
  getting some dogs, then he was like, Oh yeah, maybe I have to
• 23:55
  do a rot by the one event. She was like, dude, there's one
• 23:56
  of those, don't worry. And he was just like.
• 24:01
  I love the ears sticking out of the helmet.
• 24:03
  Yeah, that's yeah, it's a bit like the poggery with his ears
• 24:06
  sticking out of the the hood sort of thing.
• 24:08
  It's just that a little extra element.
• 24:09
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I love this one.
• 24:13
  You know, he's a he's a no nonsense guy, This fella, he.
• 24:16
  He got a good reaction as well from the posts.
• 24:19
  Yeah, they've all had good reactions actually.
• 24:22
  Possibly had the most. Chow had the least reactions I
• 24:24
  think so far and the Pogue's definitely been the the biggest
• 24:28
  reaction drive, but they've all had really good positive
• 24:30
  responses. Probably, probably the Chow.
• 24:32
  Chow is the least but even then somebody said they're going to
• 24:34
  buy one and paint up as like their next door neighbours Chow
• 24:36
  Chow and give it to them so. And.
• 24:43
  Then my other joint favourite, So yeah.
• 24:46
  So I love Dashens. My wife and daughter curse me
• 24:52
  because whenever we see one, wherever we are, I'll point to
• 24:54
  it and shout Dash Sausage Dog really quite loudly.
• 24:58
  If we're in a shop, if we're out walking, wherever sort of thing.
• 25:01
  And they're like, Oh my God, he's so embarrassing.
• 25:04
  If I'm by myself, I do it and then I'll message you and go
• 25:06
  have you shout a sausage dog and they're like, we don't care.
• 25:09
  Do the owners ever react to no? They haven't actually.
• 25:14
  Yes, I wanted, I wanted a dachshund.
• 25:17
  These are my favourite types of the the the sort of short haired
• 25:19
  dachshund and you know, it's similar colours to Rob Bila.
• 25:23
  So again that that works well for me.
• 25:26
  But I was like, I can't, I can't have him just as little dash and
• 25:29
  he's got to be give me something different about him.
• 25:31
  So it's like big hat, big hat for a little dog.
• 25:34
  What can I do? And then it was like a witch
• 25:36
  finder's hat. Yes, here we go.
• 25:39
  So yeah, I had a little think about that some Googling fun
• 25:43
  sort of look that worked for it. Excuse me.
• 25:46
  And there he is, a little witch Finder and he is tiny because
• 25:50
  I'm like, when people see this, the story we're going up, but
• 25:53
  it's not going up yet. But it's using the Wolfkin
• 25:56
  customs, hands and feet, the gnome hands and feet.
• 25:59
  So it's just the normal thing about taking off at the knees
• 26:02
  and the elbow basically. And then those put on, I'm
• 26:04
  painted by me. I did some painting.
• 26:07
  What did you paint? The feet, hands and feet.
• 26:09
  Oh, did you good man? It's extremely.
• 26:11
  Basic. It's just basic Brown but.
• 26:13
  It works. That was my lunch break today.
• 26:16
  Wow, good job. And I love your custom,
• 26:21
  especially here. This this would have sold me on
• 26:23
  the skull, the sculpt. You know, if I was kind of oh, I
• 26:26
  can get maybe two or three of these, but not them all.
• 26:30
  I would I wouldn't have picked this guy until they see the
• 26:32
  customer. Now I'm like, oh, that's so
• 26:34
  cool. And imagine with the so well,
• 26:36
  the the Burris build now the the gnome.
• 26:40
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
• 26:42
  Yeah, so the so I did the poke on a dwarf body so it was a
• 26:46
  little bit bigger just because I wanted that sort of chunky look
• 26:48
  to it. But for the dashing they had to
• 26:50
  be tiny. So yeah, Wolf King customs hands
• 26:52
  and feet that you swap on to make it Diddy and then it's it's
• 26:57
  partly a swig base then had a cloak that was done for a dwarf.
• 27:01
  So you can probably see in the bottom corner there have folded
• 27:04
  over a little bit because it was too long.
• 27:06
  He's such a short character. Even a dwarf cloak was too long
• 27:08
  for him. And then the the chest piece is
• 27:12
  from Lord of the Rings. A toy goes Lord of the Rings
• 27:14
  figure. Oh, OK, I just cut that off and
• 27:17
  with a bit heat and a bit stretching it goes round.
• 27:20
  That's also nicely. Excellent.
• 27:24
  Yeah, maybe, maybe the next step with these is to make over scale
• 27:29
  versions of a couple of them. What sausage dog?
• 27:33
  An ogre scale sausage. Dog.
• 27:35
  Yeah, or a nightmare. Be amazing.
• 27:39
  Rottweiler might work, you know. It might work.
• 27:42
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:44
  But I love, I love this guy and the story.
• 27:45
  I'm really happy with the story for him, too.
• 27:47
  So we'll enjoy it later. We're back.
• 27:49
  Around to the dog's stories soon, but I'm just going to say
• 27:53
  this. Is my joint favourite with the
• 27:54
  pug and from the minute Rich showed us the sculpt originally
• 27:59
  with the the witch Finder hat I was like that's brilliant.
• 28:02
  I love the little witch Finder hat.
• 28:04
  The witch Finder idea is so cool.
• 28:06
  I think it really helps Customs. Awesome.
• 28:09
  Thank you. Yeah, but I think it really
• 28:10
  helps it just like it's, you know, it's not just a little
• 28:12
  dog, it's a little dog. The back story.
• 28:14
  Yeah, it's cool. Very cool.
• 28:17
  Yeah, this these past the my wife test, which is basically,
• 28:23
  she's not a collector, you know, she she thinks finds it cool but
• 28:28
  isn't really into it as such, except for Dragons.
• 28:31
  But she saw these and instantly went well.
• 28:33
  They're awesome, you know? Yeah, although she did tell me
• 28:35
  often I'm in a greyhound, so I'll bear that in mind for next
• 28:39
  year. Right Next Hammerhead.
• 28:45
  So yeah, so that was the end of the end of the dogs.
• 28:48
  So these next six were the first six I did before the dog.
• 28:50
  I did. It's popped into my head.
• 28:52
  So we've shown this on the show a couple of times before, but
• 28:54
  the, the the the two sharks are based on prehistoric sharks
• 28:58
  because there's quite a few shark sculpts out there.
• 28:59
  So I wanted to do some a bit different.
• 29:03
  So this one, I can't remember the shark species it's called
• 29:05
  that's annoying, but it's, it's a shark that had at the dorsal
• 29:10
  fin. So halfway down the back, it had
• 29:12
  a flat top with a couple of ridges on it, but basically a
• 29:15
  flat top, which is just really weird and nothing.
• 29:18
  You don't see anything like that nowadays.
• 29:19
  So I moved that forward to the top of his head and that
• 29:23
  together with a tonnes of very sharp teeth.
• 29:26
  I think it looks really good. And on this picture, if anyone
• 29:29
  were looking it's it's it's on an azar.
• 29:31
  Well the flesh is an Azar yellow sort of thing, but obviously you
• 29:34
  know, paint it grey like a normal shark and it look amazing
• 29:36
  as well. Yeah.
• 29:40
  Yeah, I think you can either go this way, you know, kind of
• 29:43
  funky colours, whatever colours you want I suppose, or the
• 29:47
  xenothon body is also great for doing, you know, kind of more
• 29:51
  realistic sharks. As you know, John haven't
• 29:54
  painted a Yeah me recently. I've done, I think I've done 3
• 30:00
  or 4 heads for the Xenothon paid match.
• 30:03
  I don't think I've done it the same way each time because the
• 30:11
  sculpture different see and there's weird shading on that's
• 30:14
  anything body that that you have to try and have tried it a few
• 30:18
  different ways and still not 100% on which is the best, but
• 30:24
  they all look OK. So yeah, shark then.
• 30:29
  But this is a this is a very particular type of shark.
• 30:32
  I mean, we have talked about these two on the show before, I
• 30:35
  think. But we have, yes.
• 30:36
  So this is a species called an Edestus shark, another
• 30:39
  prehistoric 1. And what makes this one really
• 30:42
  cool and really interesting is that rather than have the teeth
• 30:44
  go around the outside of them, you know, around the edges of
• 30:46
  the mouth, like all animals do, it's got its teeth just go down
• 30:49
  the middle of its mouth. So right down the middle of the
• 30:53
  tongue. Yeah.
• 30:54
  So right down the middle on the top and the bottom.
• 30:57
  And there's the row of teeth that way, sort of thing.
• 30:59
  So this sculpt with his mouth open and roaring really shows
• 31:02
  that off really well. And then it's got some like
• 31:05
  scars, like down the side of his head as well.
• 31:07
  I totally can't help thinking that when they found this fossil
• 31:10
  that like, the lower jaws had just been squished together, you
• 31:15
  know, you see, like the artist's rendition, you're like, there's
• 31:17
  no way that works. There's no way that thing can
• 31:20
  eat. Are you arguing with science,
• 31:24
  man? Come on.
• 31:26
  There's actually a weirder looking one again than these two
• 31:29
  and that will be, I'll get that one done next year.
• 31:32
  Maybe not just be for me, but yeah, there is a weird 1 again.
• 31:37
  Well, I mean, if anyone ever has weird and wonderful ideas and
• 31:40
  you don't think anyone's ever gone to Commission them, you
• 31:42
  know, like run them past. Rich, you never know your luck.
• 31:47
  No, there's so much money I can spend.
• 31:50
  Yeah. I mean people, I think anyone
• 31:52
  that's listening to the show knows the sort of stuff I like,
• 31:54
  so they wouldn't be surprised by a the dogs, the sharks, the
• 31:58
  stuff we're going to see in a little bit sort of thing.
• 32:00
  You know, I've said they're the sort of ideas I like to see lots
• 32:04
  randomly, no lizard people, which is not like me.
• 32:06
  But everything else I talk about basically.
• 32:09
  Isn't they're relying on you horsemen?
• 32:11
  Yeah, no pressure. And there we go, the little what
• 32:16
  is in track scene. Yeah, it's great little that's
• 32:20
  good Rock Pharaoh. Yes.
• 32:23
  So this is, I was, I was looking for, I think he was, yeah.
• 32:30
  It was like Egyptian skeleton tomb king like, well, I'm a tomb
• 32:33
  king sort of thing. A couple of years ago, the prop
• 32:36
  masters are going to do me a couple of scopes and they did
• 32:38
  some lovely ones. And I came across this
• 32:41
  particular website, I think it was Croc minis or something like
• 32:43
  that, it's called, where they had just bonkers ideas and they
• 32:47
  had like a range of like four or five different designs of rock
• 32:50
  people, but in Egyptian outfits. So, so this this isn't like
• 32:55
  directly lifted from that, but it was inspired by that.
• 32:58
  So basically it's a rock man with, you know, a big like
• 33:03
  pointy pharaoh style beard, proper pharaoh headdress and
• 33:08
  then a giant sort of towering thing coming out the top of his,
• 33:12
  his head headdress sort of thing.
• 33:17
  It's awesome. I absolutely love it.
• 33:19
  So John Lucca did a fabulous job on this, the way the way the
• 33:24
  rock patterning is like, I left that to him.
• 33:25
  And it also almost looks a bit like the thing sort of thing as
• 33:27
  well, the way it's the way it's done and.
• 33:32
  Remembering, remembering Game Game of Thrones, there was this
• 33:35
  disease called grayscale that they could get.
• 33:39
  Yes. I think Jorah Mormont at some
• 33:43
  point, and the young, Was it Stannis's young daughter at it?
• 33:50
  Yeah. And then I just stop it.
• 33:52
  This. This is what they end up looking
• 33:54
  like, I think, once it kind of fully breaks out.
• 33:58
  So that's what it reminded me of, anyway.
• 34:01
  So I put this one, I'm not showing this on the cabal yet,
• 34:04
  but I might have done when this comes out because they're all
• 34:07
  prepped and ready to go. But I just use Zenith and body
• 34:10
  and then some Anubis parts as well sort of thing and I think
• 34:14
  it works really well. Looks great.
• 34:15
  So it looks really good. And I finally got a chance to
• 34:18
  use my Egyptian dio back piece as well for.
• 34:21
  The last I've had that for about 12.
• 34:23
  Months and I'm not add anything to take a picture on it with SO
• 34:25
  finally. Got it's going to say who took
• 34:27
  this picture because I've never seen you with that dio.
• 34:30
  But no, it's I was, well, I was sorting out the display room for
• 34:34
  the umpteenth time the other week and I was cursing to wife
• 34:36
  going, I've got this, I've got this Strawberry castle thing and
• 34:38
  I always use this, but these are like Egyptian.
• 34:40
  And then I turned around and was like, and I've got an Egyptian
• 34:42
  one over there. I completely forgot about it.
• 34:44
  It's been in the corner for 12 months.
• 34:48
  Rich rich byes Dios forgets about them.
• 34:54
  Yeah, basically I've got another one I commissioned to be made
• 34:56
  that I've not shown yet, which is amazing.
• 34:58
  It's like a church. It's fabulous.
• 35:01
  But I'm just terrible at showing these things.
• 35:02
  So, yeah, but no, this is this is I love this.
• 35:05
  You know, it's, it's a fun sculpt.
• 35:07
  You like your Egyptian stuff. You can do some of them with it
• 35:09
  if you like rock people. You can do some of them with it
• 35:11
  if you like both Happy days. Yeah, ancient warrior then kind
• 35:18
  of along the same theme a little bit A.
• 35:20
  Little bit, yeah. So I I love my ancient history.
• 35:23
  I think I've said before that's what I studied.
• 35:24
  That's what my degrees in study at university.
• 35:29
  And there's a race that we're in what's modern day like Syria,
• 35:33
  Iraq, Iran, like 600 BC called the Assyrians really powerful
• 35:41
  culture for 5-6 hundred years and then they disappeared pretty
• 35:43
  much overnight. But they've got a lot of their
• 35:46
  artefacts that were some people would say looted, some people
• 35:49
  would say collected by British people while in the area 100
• 35:53
  years ago. And there's a big display, yeah,
• 35:57
  in the local museum here in Bristol.
• 35:58
  They've got some big displays and like the statues have got
• 36:02
  these sort of heads sort of thing.
• 36:05
  So it's like, so I've been wanting to do something around
• 36:07
  this sort of Syrian culture for a long while.
• 36:11
  And then again, so the way it's painted by Mark on the left
• 36:13
  here, incredible job again. There was a statue that had that
• 36:17
  sort of mossy colour to it and and that's all bronzy type look
• 36:23
  to it sort of thing. So I wanted on painted like that
• 36:26
  for a set of figures that I've got.
• 36:27
  But obviously you just paint it a normal human colour and normal
• 36:29
  bearded colour and you've got, yeah, you've got a normal sort
• 36:34
  of Middle Eastern themed warrior stuff with.
• 36:38
  Yeah, this, this paint job, it's, it's not patina, but it's
• 36:41
  the kind of it's, it's what patina is to a different type of
• 36:45
  material. So if you know what I mean.
• 36:47
  So this thing was obviously not metal, maybe it was clay or
• 36:50
  something. And this is the kind of
• 36:53
  weathered way that that that that material ends up.
• 36:56
  It's kind of more greenish brown mussy and he said.
• 37:00
  I should say at this point too, and I forgot to say at the
• 37:02
  start, that if anyone buys any of the unpainted ones from from
• 37:05
  US Allegiance Con, there is a Richard Jones drawing of each of
• 37:11
  these that will and you'll get the drawing of which I've had
• 37:13
  you buy 3 as part of the purchase.
• 37:16
  Like a really crap certificate of authenticity, isn't it?
• 37:19
  Yeah, Basically, yeah. My drawing of this one is
• 37:22
  particularly bad, like really quite bad.
• 37:26
  So that will be a good one for someone to have in their
• 37:28
  collection. It's like because awesome
• 37:29
  sculpt. And then there's this
• 37:30
  horrifically badly drawn next to it.
• 37:35
  Are you are you printing these all at home or are you getting
• 37:37
  them professionally? Printed.
• 37:38
  Oh no, I just, I got some card. I shove that in the printer and
• 37:41
  do it at home. This might take your your
• 37:45
  luggage way over. Well, hopefully I'll get rid of
• 37:48
  more while I'm there. So coming back it'd be fine.
• 37:51
  I did last year, then I was with some some big good John.
• 37:54
  He's yeah. Look out for Look out for a pile
• 37:59
  of of these that have been near you and the Hanover Married Agps
• 38:05
  track. Tag each one of them so I can
• 38:07
  follow people like. That's by the bin, but you
• 38:09
  should be in the bin. What the So what happened to
• 38:14
  these Assyrians that they got to just wiped out pretty much
• 38:17
  overnighter? They just, it was bad, bad
• 38:21
  management, I think it's fair to say.
• 38:23
  And then the powers started rising, and then, yeah, they
• 38:27
  just didn't last. Like Man United.
• 38:29
  What was that for? I didn't even, I didn't even do
• 38:37
  that up. That just happened.
• 38:39
  There's no need, I'm sorry. It'll.
• 38:42
  Give some, it'll give Thomas play a laugh.
• 38:44
  You know, such a nice guy Island Warrior then so.
• 38:50
  Yes, So this is very cool. This is the one where Mark
• 38:53
  messaged me, You know, he's like, it's an amazing sculpt,
• 38:58
  but the way you've asked for it to be painted, that's lots of
• 38:59
  little colours. Yeah, FU Rich is basically what
• 39:03
  isn't. It.
• 39:04
  Yeah. Yeah, he could have done a much
• 39:06
  plainer paint job and he looked amazing still.
• 39:09
  But no, me being me, I was like, can I have this really complex
• 39:12
  paint job? I hope he chose you more for it.
• 39:15
  He didn't bless him because he's a lovely man.
• 39:17
  Wow, Beers for America allegiance, Yeah.
• 39:21
  So this is based on a Sri Lankan tribal mask from a long, long,
• 39:27
  long time ago. But I've called it Island
• 39:30
  Warrior because, I mean, a Sri Lanka is an island.
• 39:32
  It's a very Big Island, but it's an island.
• 39:33
  But I could sort of see this being one of the Pacific islands
• 39:36
  that have this sort of thing as well or, you know, that sort of
• 39:39
  stuff. So it's it's the typical sort of
• 39:42
  like shouting face that you might see Maori culture or
• 39:46
  something like that with a tongue sticking out, lots of
• 39:48
  pointed teeth like horns coming out of the side, big bulging
• 39:53
  eyes. And then this one, as you can
• 39:55
  tell, the part of the world it's from has then got 3 Cobras
• 39:57
  coming out the top of this as well.
• 40:00
  Yeah. It's really, and this would have
• 40:02
  been like a wooden mask they'd have worn in the day sort of
• 40:06
  thing. So you could have just said my
• 40:07
  painted up like wood. You know, I could have done, but
• 40:13
  you know, I thought, give me a challenge.
• 40:15
  He likes his painting. He does.
• 40:17
  Yeah. Well, he did.
• 40:19
  He rolls to the challenge and it's great.
• 40:21
  So the snakes almost look realistic here.
• 40:23
  Or, I mean, they do look realistic, yeah.
• 40:25
  They're amazing, aren't they? My drawing of this one's quite
• 40:27
  bad as well, actually thinking about it, and it took me about
• 40:29
  an hour to do last night. It was ridiculous.
• 40:32
  It's not so many little lines. It's like, oh God, yeah.
• 40:36
  And. Saying to my.
• 40:37
  Wife, it's like this is the this is the first and last year that
• 40:39
  I gave out drawings of each of these things.
• 40:43
  And Gianluca? Did an incredible job here.
• 40:47
  Fabulous. All the scopes are brilliant.
• 40:49
  Yeah, credit to John Luke, he's did such a good job on on all
• 40:52
  and he's really open to feedback.
• 40:53
  So, you know, most people get really annoyed if I kept saying
• 40:55
  to them, can you make the Rottweilers, you know, speak,
• 40:58
  just drop a little bit, did a little bit further.
• 41:01
  But he was great about it all so.
• 41:04
  And thanks for letting me know that this was a wooden mask,
• 41:07
  because I think I'm going to get one of these printed and
• 41:10
  painted. So that's a much easier paint
• 41:12
  job than you do something like this Zombie Pharaoh.
• 41:20
  Yes. So this again, anyone that's
• 41:22
  listening to me talk about any of this sort of stuff.
• 41:24
  I talk about masks, I talk about Egyptian stuff, I talk about
• 41:27
  undead stuff. So a zombie pharaoh had to be
• 41:29
  done. Again, this is one of these
• 41:32
  things I sent, I sent John Lucas three different pictures of
• 41:36
  zombie Pharaohs going right. Can I have the headdress from
• 41:38
  that one and the face and the beard from that one?
• 41:41
  But can the side of it be from this one?
• 41:44
  And he's just like, OK, yeah, that's fine.
• 41:47
  We did a great job. So, yeah.
• 41:48
  So basically it's like a proper zombie face.
• 41:51
  The the nose is gone, his mouth open screaming.
• 41:55
  He's got your little pharaoh beardy thing going on there.
• 41:58
  A fairly plain headdress on the side.
• 42:02
  This one is I've had painted red because I'm going to use a red
• 42:05
  cloak with it. I just can't find my mask of the
• 42:07
  Red death at the moment to use that cloak, but that's what be
• 42:10
  on it. And then again, the way the it's
• 42:14
  an ornate headdress because it's got big jewel in the middle and
• 42:17
  like diamond shapes and that sort of stuff.
• 42:18
  But I deliberately went for it to be painted in a fairly down
• 42:22
  tone colour because and you wanted to use it with scaphoid
• 42:24
  parts. So it's got like tarnished gold
• 42:27
  look and then the blacks as well.
• 42:30
  There's a couple of cool ideas I saw whether it was gold and
• 42:33
  black for the sort of undead ferro look as well.
• 42:35
  So I love this one that absolutely love it.
• 42:39
  It's so good. Very cool and those are zombie
• 42:44
  parts then from they. Are they're then they'd build a
• 42:46
  pack, yeah, stuff with a scaphoid armour and then
• 42:50
  Anubis's longcloth. So a fairly easy build, but I
• 42:54
  think it looks. Really good.
• 42:55
  Yeah. It's effective for sure.
• 42:58
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 42:59
  So this is another cool one and a lot of detail and.
• 43:03
  If you like this early in the new year, I'll be putting a few
• 43:06
  more of these sort of things that I've already got, I just
• 43:09
  haven't photographed and nothing with.
• 43:12
  Right now we're at the the big one for us, so.
• 43:17
  Yeah, yeah, that was Rich's stuff.
• 43:22
  Now for the big pressure. So that was 12 head scopes, but
• 43:28
  what about this guy? Yeah.
• 43:31
  It's the dire haggis, so yeah, so think direwolf.
• 43:37
  What a haggis. Yes.
• 43:38
  So I can't remember how it was start.
• 43:41
  I feel like we discussed the idea of doing a companion type
• 43:45
  character this year for our exclusive piece and I think very
• 43:50
  quickly I was like, well, there's so haggis is actually a
• 43:56
  food, isn't it? It's a Scottish food for anyone
• 43:58
  who doesn't know. I'm sure there's a fair few of
• 44:01
  the American friends who are listening who are aware of that.
• 44:04
  But there is also a gag in Scotland that haggis is a little
• 44:09
  creature that you don't see very often.
• 44:12
  So of course if we were going to make a companion piece that was
• 44:14
  a haggis, it was going to be tiny.
• 44:18
  So I think that's where dire haggis came to mind.
• 44:20
  I was like, well, a dire haggis, like a dire wolf would be bigger
• 44:24
  and I think I googled that as an out of interest to see what what
• 44:28
  was about and I was through it. There's a picture that appeared
• 44:32
  that is was like that is awesome.
• 44:35
  That's a cool idea. And.
• 44:38
  My fault wasn't anything. This is very similar.
• 44:41
  However, we got a piece done, didn't we, that was fully furred
• 44:47
  and you guys were like, oh, how would he look like with so he's
• 44:51
  got because the haggis as well. He's basically a, a, a it's a
• 44:57
  sheep's. It's like interesting.
• 44:59
  And it's, yeah, it's stuff, but wrapped in a sheep's stomach.
• 45:03
  So you know everything anyone thinks about the UK and and
• 45:07
  British. Food, land food and that sort of
• 45:10
  stuff. Although it's not bland, it's
• 45:11
  actually. This is not bland, no, but it's
• 45:14
  but. It's, you know, grey sort of
• 45:17
  just awful. He's a haggis and it's often
• 45:21
  eaten and Burns not well, he's eaten all the time in Scotland.
• 45:24
  But on Burns Night is particularly, and I think it
• 45:26
  might even have been around Burns Night that this all came
• 45:29
  about, which is why I was like, oh, haggis.
• 45:31
  And but then yes, I showed you the designs that with the full
• 45:36
  fair and I think it was you John, wasn't it?
• 45:38
  And Rich, to be fair, was well. What would he look like if he
• 45:41
  was more haggisy at the back? Yeah, I think my, I think my
• 45:46
  point was, and I was, I felt bad, bad.
• 45:50
  After all the work he's saying was like, how can we tell he's a
• 45:53
  haggis? You know, other than you just
• 45:55
  tell me he's a haggis. I wanted people to be able to
• 45:58
  say. Oh, what makes that say what?
• 46:00
  Is that? Yeah, that's a haggis, Yeah.
• 46:02
  Yeah, which which is yeah. And and I must admit I wasn't
• 46:05
  sure what I was a bit like, oh, not sure about that.
• 46:09
  But we were a democracy out we. So I went back to General
• 46:12
  because like good guys want to try this and he came back with
• 46:15
  this and he's like, actually, that's freaking awesome.
• 46:20
  And Jan Luke has actually said he this is his favourite of the
• 46:23
  two as well. He's really pleased with this
• 46:25
  one. And the 3D printers are much
• 46:28
  more in favour of this one as well.
• 46:31
  Easier. Print less texture here, but
• 46:34
  yeah, so this is what we came up with and this will be and he's
• 46:39
  I'm really pleased with it. I'm really pleased with the
• 46:41
  other version. I think it's just a fun
• 46:45
  companion character based on a bit of a daft story.
• 46:49
  And then yes. So we show we we'll get you here
• 46:51
  at the end that shows the scale and yes, in relation to 1.2
• 46:55
  figure. And here is the furry one.
• 47:00
  Yes. And full fur.
• 47:02
  Yeah, we're doing this as it says on on the top here.
• 47:04
  We're going to limit this one, aren't we?
• 47:06
  And it's probably a good idea because, as I say, it's quite
• 47:08
  similar to the picture that and yeah, but this will be giveaway
• 47:17
  for various things. We'll work out what we're doing,
• 47:19
  won't we, nearer the time. And and yeah, very cool, but
• 47:25
  it'll be unpainted. They'll all be unpainted, won't
• 47:26
  they give away 1? So whoever might win them in for
• 47:30
  whatever we make them do just to make it sound obvious can paint
• 47:35
  it themselves however they want. Yeah, exactly.
• 47:38
  Whatever. We make you do won't be as dark
• 47:40
  as when Mal made it sound. No, that's what I say.
• 47:43
  That's what I said about it sounding ominous.
• 47:45
  It won't be. It'll be more fun than anything.
• 47:48
  Yeah. So to be clear, this one, the
• 47:51
  Haggisi looking once the sale, that's the one that's going to
• 47:54
  be for sale. I mean it's still limited like
• 47:56
  because we don't have haggis unlimited supply of this, yes,
• 47:59
  yeah. And then this is very limited
• 48:01
  only in giveaways. So either on the show or
• 48:04
  allegiance gone, Yeah, giving away a couple and that's the
• 48:08
  only way that we're going to be given that one out.
• 48:11
  So if this one's your favourite, sorry, but you might be.
• 48:14
  OK, folks, Yeah. You never know.
• 48:18
  Yeah, we should say that with all the sculpts, Well, you know,
• 48:20
  there is limited stock obviously because.
• 48:22
  Yes. You know, we're not a 3D
• 48:24
  printing company, so yeah, you know, if you want any of these,
• 48:27
  come to us early. Absolutely.
• 48:29
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 48:30
  To guarantee it at least. Yeah, right.
• 48:34
  And then a couple more. So Anthony actually painted up a
• 48:37
  couple of these for us so that we could show them off painted.
• 48:40
  So that was really awesome of them.
• 48:41
  I think he did a great job here. He did fantastic.
• 48:45
  The Haggisi looking 1 you can see the little bits of texture.
• 48:47
  It even looks like a. Yeah, it does show somewhat,
• 48:51
  yeah. Just in the sculpt and obviously
• 48:54
  Anthony has painted it the same way.
• 48:56
  So awesome. The fur one.
• 48:58
  Of course, painting fur like that is great fun as well.
• 49:01
  You know you can. You can really put down a nice
• 49:04
  base cotton, do a bit of dry brushing and a wash and stuff
• 49:07
  and it looks fantastic. Well, and I think just to
• 49:10
  further the decision to go with the the nudie stressed haggis
• 49:15
  look, Anthony said that was his favourite of the two as well.
• 49:19
  So here we get a rear view so you can see.
• 49:21
  Such a it's a weird looking thing from the back.
• 49:25
  Weird looking thing in the back isn't it?
• 49:26
  I think I'd appreciate. Quite a weird that keep.
• 49:29
  Travis away. From it well, maybe Travis fits
• 49:35
  in there, but this is the scale so that's a mythic legions dwarf
• 49:39
  you see there perfect. And it basically goes up to just
• 49:43
  above the knee on the dwarf and yeah substantial size all the
• 49:50
  same. I think Borderland Horde had
• 49:52
  like A to add like a frog with a backpack similar size I think to
• 49:57
  this, and they've had a couple of other companions like this.
• 50:02
  So I think that's the kind of scale and I think that works
• 50:06
  great as a companion to figure. The little companions are
• 50:10
  definitely the key to it, yeah. Yeah, We didn't want to do a
• 50:13
  ride on one because it would cost so much to print and and to
• 50:18
  sell and we wouldn't, you know, people, not as many people would
• 50:22
  be able to get it if they want to do it.
• 50:23
  And we're just being messy. Well enough Best.
• 50:27
  Yeah. And then going with like, yeah,
• 50:29
  what we've got with the haggis idea and the dire haggis is a
• 50:32
  bit of an even bigger joke about it all, is it?
• 50:36
  You know, it's such a silly, weird creature and it would
• 50:40
  almost be like a little angry brat of a creature.
• 50:45
  So this would be terrifying if you saw it.
• 50:48
  It's got. I mean, I can't work with a
• 50:50
  dwarf, wouldn't it just like a little?
• 50:52
  Ice. Yeah, just like.
• 50:53
  Well, I can't wait to see all the terrifying ways that people
• 50:56
  might paint it up in the future. Fingers crossed people like it,
• 51:00
  yeah. So in summary class, here's what
• 51:08
  we got. We post this, we post this
• 51:10
  around in the run up to Legions Khan.
• 51:13
  You can see all the stuff that you can get there and they look
• 51:17
  good together. Crazy team of stuff, yeah.
• 51:21
  It all looks great. Yeah, Jan.
• 51:23
  Again, John Luca did an incredible job with all of it.
• 51:26
  Absolutely. Really fabulous.
• 51:29
  I think there's a bit for everybody as well.
• 51:30
  I mean, the dogs, yeah, hopefully will be popular and
• 51:32
  people will like those sort of things that, you know, you like
• 51:34
  your shark men, it's options, Egyptian stuff, options.
• 51:37
  And Dad, there's option, you know, it's just there's
• 51:39
  something for everybody there. Sounds like your ideal
• 51:43
  situation. Basically yes.
• 51:45
  But you created it for yourself, yeah.
• 51:49
  The irony being it won't save him any money at Legions con.
• 51:54
  Oh no, no, just no. Still going out and buying them.
• 51:57
  Yeah, very good. So that's that.
• 52:02
  No, my bar of chocolates coming much closer to being that's a
• 52:11
  going to swap out the tea for a glass of water might need.
• 52:13
  It people will be, no pun intended, jonesing for you,
• 52:16
  Rich. Yeah, I think I've.
• 52:18
  Had you for a couple of weeks, Well, I think not last week, but
• 52:21
  week before I think as well. I think the the people like you
• 52:26
  reading your own stuff. I think it sounds best coming
• 52:29
  from You've Got the Horse's Mouth as well, so And yes, I
• 52:34
  love listening to Read so Rich. Got a voice?
• 52:38
  So, so there's there's a few pages of this settling everybody
• 52:42
  get yourself a nice Scotch or something like that.
• 52:44
  Or. Hope you've enjoyed the show,
• 52:46
  see you next week. There are 10 characters I think
• 52:53
  in this story, so there's four that aren't using our exclusive
• 52:56
  sculpts, but they're called characters nonetheless.
• 52:59
  So there'll be John you showing all the pictures to go with this
• 53:01
  as well. Yeah, that was my plan.
• 53:03
  So I was just waiting for you to tell me which one to put up
• 53:05
  first, OK? There's a bit of a back story
• 53:08
  first, so we'll we'll wind through that and then we'll get
• 53:11
  I'll give you the nod when you start showing it.
• 53:14
  So which this is the first one, is it?
• 53:16
  Yes, it is. OK, perfect.
• 53:18
  Spoiler let. Spoiler let So So these sculpts
• 53:25
  in my stories all represent the wider world as we know now know
• 53:27
  the continent Mythos is just one part of a much bigger world.
• 53:31
  So then let me set the scene a little bit with the story behind
• 53:36
  all this sort of stuff. Some of you will have heard this
• 53:38
  before, I apologise. The rest of it will be fresh
• 53:40
  just this bit. After the Second Great War, the
• 53:44
  continent of Mythos was in a desperate state, with many areas
• 53:47
  devastated by the war and great battles fought throughout it.
• 53:50
  Nowhere was this more keenly felt than in the southern
• 53:53
  coastal communities. These small fishing villages and
• 53:56
  large ports alike had borne the initial brunt of the attacks
• 53:59
  from Necronominus and Poxus's forces.
• 54:02
  Wave after wave of undead horrors and pestilence swept
• 54:05
  ashore and through their lands. Entire villages were obliterated
• 54:08
  by dark magics, with a fallen then rising to become the undead
• 54:12
  horde and fight for the dark gods.
• 54:14
  In Ephidium, the resistance to these invasions was led by the
• 54:17
  mages of the Convocation of Basilia.
• 54:19
  Although knowing they would be unable to withstand the vast
• 54:21
  forces Epoxus, they nevertheless stood their ground in these
• 54:24
  communities and did all they could.
• 54:27
  It is said barely a single mage from these areas survived, but
• 54:30
  through their bravery they managed to save thousands of
• 54:32
  people across Phidian. Some mages sent entire villages
• 54:36
  to temporary dimensions where they were safe, others healed as
• 54:39
  much of the pestilence as Poxus spread before they themselves
• 54:42
  were cut down. In Ethos, the large port cities
• 54:45
  put up a fierce resistance but were doomed against the
• 54:48
  uncountable hordes of undead creatures that attacked them.
• 54:51
  Trading vessels of all sizes fled and took as many people as
• 54:54
  they could, but they still left hundreds of thousands in the
• 54:57
  port cities. It was here the Templar Order
• 55:00
  established themselves once more as one of the greatest forces
• 55:03
  for good in Mythos. Commands were sent by Sir
• 55:06
  Godfrey via the Templar Emissaries for each temple to
• 55:09
  hold firm no matter the costs. Each temple master swore to
• 55:13
  uphold this order and they and their men fought with a bravery
• 55:16
  that unless seen, would have been thought as mythical
• 55:20
  through. Through the Templar actions, the
• 55:22
  hordes of undead were slowed up for weeks, allowing 10s of
• 55:25
  thousands of civilians to escape.
• 55:28
  Their actions also allow the armies of Ethos to assemble in
• 55:31
  full readiness for the Great War to come.
• 55:34
  The greatest rearguard action of this campaign was by the temple
• 55:37
  within the port city of Brooke Pharos.
• 55:39
  Their story is for another time, but even the mortally wounded
• 55:42
  Thoracis, the first born himself, spoke of their valour
• 55:45
  and military might before his existence was ended by Gwendolyn
• 55:48
  Heavens Brand. After the final great battle,
• 55:52
  the surviving populations returned to their destroyed
• 55:54
  cities and villages, but there was so little left that they
• 55:57
  realised they would struggle to survive here and now decided to
• 56:00
  roam further afield with the rest of the continent, mythos
• 56:03
  and ruins as well. They saw no other option but to
• 56:06
  set sail to see what are the land, if any, might be found
• 56:10
  across the vast oceans. One group of survivors fleeing
• 56:14
  Mythos were from one of the great port cities and led by
• 56:17
  Knights and their retinues, this group sailed forth in a large
• 56:20
  trading vessel filled with all the items they felt they needed
• 56:23
  to start a new community wherever they landed.
• 56:26
  After weeks at sea and having survived a couple of terrible
• 56:28
  storms, the battered ship and crew finally sighted land.
• 56:33
  There was great excitement amongst all on board and the
• 56:35
  children were jubilant as they hoped to make new friends in
• 56:37
  this new land. As the ship got closer to land
• 56:40
  the expedition leader Sir Nandor was wary that Southern Lands was
• 56:44
  where the undead horde had come from.
• 56:47
  He ordered the ships captain to sail close to shore to enable
• 56:49
  them to survey the land more closely before disembarking.
• 56:53
  They saw no one at first, but when they rounded a headland
• 56:56
  they finally saw movement and a small village.
• 56:59
  To the relief of everyone on board, the figures in the
• 57:01
  distance did not move in the shambling way of the undead.
• 57:04
  Looking through a telescope, the captain affirmed that although
• 57:06
  the races he saw were unknown to him, they were not undead
• 57:09
  creatures. The ship anchored further down
• 57:13
  the coast and the passengers excitedly disembarked to this
• 57:16
  new world that appeared untouched by the wars of mythos.
• 57:20
  The scouting parties revealed that the land appeared fertile
• 57:23
  and more importantly, unoccupied other than the small village
• 57:25
  they had spotted. So Nandor confidently and
• 57:28
  proudly proclaimed the land as New Etheros and planted the flag
• 57:32
  of the Great Eagle. They built a small settlement as
• 57:34
  a first stage and lived there happily for a few weeks.
• 57:38
  One day a hunting party which had gone 10s of miles inland
• 57:41
  returned to say that they had seen what appeared to be a
• 57:44
  ruined castle off in the distance.
• 57:46
  It didn't appeared occupied from what they saw, but so Nandor
• 57:49
  wanted to investigate nonetheless.
• 57:51
  His thinking was if there was a substantial old building further
• 57:54
  inland, he could occupy those and rebuild them to fortify new
• 57:57
  ethos. He sent a group comprising
• 57:59
  Knights and builders to look at the ruins and see what they
• 58:02
  could be done with them. While carrying out their work,
• 58:04
  they were approached by a rider on horseback.
• 58:07
  The knight was clad in head to toe red armour, the like of
• 58:10
  which the group had not seen before.
• 58:12
  As he got closer, the rider removed his helmet to reveal
• 58:15
  that he was a wolf. Seeing the rider closer, seeing
• 58:19
  the rider was a wolf rather, they relaxed as the wolf clans
• 58:22
  of Mythos were sworn allies to the Order of Etheron.
• 58:25
  However, when he reached them, it quickly became clear this
• 58:28
  wolf was no friend. So that's the back story set up
• 58:35
  so you know. Yeah, and you got a bit of you.
• 58:39
  You even got a mention of Sir Godfrey in there.
• 58:41
  I salute you. Oh yeah.
• 58:43
  Yeah, I'll drop, I'll drop, you know, real stuff.
• 58:44
  In Thoracus Dies, Gwendolyn was mentioned.
• 58:46
  Yeah, but Godfrey is such a, you know, he's just a Templar
• 58:49
  knight, really. He's a figure.
• 58:52
  Great. Great to get a bit of character
• 58:54
  in there. OK, so, OK, so let's.
• 58:57
  Go on with the. Yeah.
• 58:59
  There he is. So this is the rider on
• 59:01
  horseback, is it? This is indeed.
• 59:04
  The wolf wore a tabard with a sigil of a howling wolf on it.
• 59:08
  None of the Knights recognised the sigil and neither had they
• 59:10
  seen wolves wear red before. Who are you Sir?
• 59:13
  Asked Sir Gambon, the leader of the party.
• 59:16
  The wolf Lut Gambon up and down with disdain before replying.
• 59:19
  You are unwelcome here. Leave now while you still can.
• 59:23
  There will be no further warning.
• 59:26
  How dare you speak to a knight of ethos like that?
• 59:29
  Exclaimed Sir Gambon. We are not your enemies or mere
• 59:32
  peasants. The builders in the group
• 59:34
  shuffled in easily at the term peasants being thrown around.
• 59:37
  They knew some of the nights, and Sir Gambon in particular
• 59:39
  looked down on most members of the expedition, but to hear it
• 59:42
  spoken aloud like that was disconcerting.
• 59:45
  The wolf looked down at night, trying to work out what race he
• 59:47
  was. You are human, he said finally.
• 59:51
  Humans are weak. They were food for our
• 59:53
  ancestors, he stated. You will leave now or you'll be
• 59:57
  food once more. Sir Gambon went to reply but was
• 1:00:01
  cut off by the wolf. You're in the lands of the
• 1:00:03
  Lichen Leagues. We do not tolerate outsiders.
• 1:00:07
  Be gone when I return with my troops, or you will all die.
• 1:00:11
  With that, the wolf turned his horse around and began to ride
• 1:00:14
  off. That's a Gambon signal.
• 1:00:16
  One of the Knights mounted his horse and charged after the
• 1:00:19
  wolf. He had threatened them and must
• 1:00:21
  be dealt with in case he really didn't have troops to return
• 1:00:23
  with. As the night closed in on the
• 1:00:25
  wolf, he suddenly fell from his horse.
• 1:00:27
  The wolf stopped, turned his horse around and rode back to
• 1:00:30
  where the night had fallen. Getting down off his horse, he
• 1:00:34
  picked the dead up the dead knight like he was a rag doll.
• 1:00:37
  Sir Gambon now saw that an arrow had fell.
• 1:00:39
  The knight. Looking around Sir Gambon saw a
• 1:00:42
  creature dressed in blue with a crossbow in his hand stood on
• 1:00:45
  the Crest of a nearby hill. Sir Gambon could not make out
• 1:00:48
  the race of the creature, but it's squashed face made it
• 1:00:50
  obvious it was no wolf. The wolf knight threw the fallen
• 1:00:53
  knight to the floor and stared back at the party, a fierce fire
• 1:00:58
  burning in his eyes. You were warned.
• 1:01:01
  He shouted. Now you will all die as well any
• 1:01:04
  others you may have with you. So there we go.
• 1:01:08
  So that's the the nasty wolf, not one of our thanks.
• 1:01:15
  Malphoo, that nasty wolf Boo. It's Rodriguez head sculpt.
• 1:01:21
  And it's painted by Mark Field. But I, I love it.
• 1:01:23
  It's a yes. Fantastic.
• 1:01:25
  Good, good wolf. He's he's getting in on breaking
• 1:01:30
  up either answer. You know, I'm, I'm, I'm good
• 1:01:32
  with them. You're honest suddenly wolf fan.
• 1:01:35
  There we go. So the second next character up
• 1:01:39
  is the Pug and he was dropped into the end of that story.
• 1:01:43
  Here he is. Thank you John the Pug.
• 1:01:49
  The Archer stepped out of the biz bushes as the wolf arrived.
• 1:01:52
  Captain Sir, Said the anthropomorphic pug as he bowed
• 1:01:55
  his head. Excellent shot, answered the
• 1:01:57
  wolf. He caught himself though as soon
• 1:01:59
  as he said it, as the pug now became visibly excited and
• 1:02:02
  started panting heavily. Damn dogs, thought the wolf.
• 1:02:06
  We may have bred them to be more than companion animals, but they
• 1:02:09
  still have preys a little too much, especially pugs.
• 1:02:13
  When they arrived back at camp, the pug hurriedly ran off to
• 1:02:16
  tell his friends what had happened.
• 1:02:18
  Bartholomew loved to be useful and popular, and couldn't wait
• 1:02:21
  to tell Freud how he had slain the creature.
• 1:02:23
  Strange creature for the wolf, Freud.
• 1:02:26
  Freud, he exclaimed as he reached a set of benches and
• 1:02:28
  campfires set up in front of a row of tents.
• 1:02:31
  A weary looking anthropomorphic Basset Hound looked down at the
• 1:02:34
  pug. What is it Bart?
• 1:02:37
  He said in a voice that was as weary as he looked.
• 1:02:39
  Freud, I held the captain, I saved him, Exclaimed the pug.
• 1:02:43
  The soldier in armour was going to kill him and I shot him dead.
• 1:02:46
  Well done Bart, Replied Freud, barely looking up from his meal.
• 1:02:50
  I did, I saved him and I'm so excited to have done it.
• 1:02:53
  The young pug continued. But I'd only been in the Lycan
• 1:02:56
  League army for two years. But his skill with the bow had
• 1:02:58
  quickly ensured he was assigned to one of the main units.
• 1:03:01
  Helping the wolves keep their empire safe was all he had ever
• 1:03:03
  wanted to do, and now he could. Oh, little pup, you're excited
• 1:03:09
  because you've been bred to be excited.
• 1:03:11
  Our ancestors were basic animals who the wolves through ancient
• 1:03:14
  magics, bred to be servants and soldiers.
• 1:03:17
  We're all just here to serve them.
• 1:03:19
  The slurred words came from a Saint Bernard drinking from a
• 1:03:21
  small barrel. Be quiet.
• 1:03:23
  Higgins snapped. Freud, your drunken ramblings
• 1:03:26
  aren't helpful. They're not ramblings, they're
• 1:03:29
  the truth. And you know that hound snapped
• 1:03:32
  back. Higgins.
• 1:03:33
  The Basset Hound walked calmly over to Saint Bernard and
• 1:03:35
  punched him in the gut. Enough drunkard, He snarled.
• 1:03:39
  You will let the boy enjoy his moment.
• 1:03:41
  Almost oblivious to the argument, Bart was just
• 1:03:43
  overjoyed to have helped the mighty wolf.
• 1:03:45
  His tail was wagging away inside his armour and he was happy.
• 1:03:49
  What a good boy I am, he thought to himself as he got the bowl of
• 1:03:52
  Stew. I love it.
• 1:03:57
  Yeah, brilliant. That's fun writing that one.
• 1:04:00
  So Bart Bart. I love the name Bartolomew.
• 1:04:04
  Yes, perfect. So that was a good fit.
• 1:04:08
  OK, so we have the Basset Hound next, please, John.
• 1:04:11
  Yeah. Got him and then off you go.
• 1:04:16
  That's some Bernard, maybe a drunk, but he's right, thought
• 1:04:19
  Freud later that evening. When you've been around as long
• 1:04:22
  as we have, you learned the truth.
• 1:04:24
  The canine company units are soldiers and nothing more.
• 1:04:27
  Our ancestors are simply guard dogs.
• 1:04:29
  Even worse, some were mere pets to the lichens, and they still
• 1:04:32
  regard us as just animals to be used. 20 years ago, I had the
• 1:04:36
  chance stand up to them. I knew the truth then and could
• 1:04:39
  have fought against our oppression, but I faltered.
• 1:04:42
  I'm too old now to rebel. He sighed out loud.
• 1:04:45
  Just focus on the men, he thought to himself.
• 1:04:47
  Getting them through any battles is your main focus now.
• 1:04:51
  Freud knew he had a group of fierce warriors and loyal
• 1:04:53
  companions at his side, and although tired of war, their
• 1:04:56
  zeal kept him going. Despite still being a fearsome
• 1:05:00
  warrior, he was getting older. I knew he didn't have many years
• 1:05:02
  left in the army. If I can just persuade Usey to
• 1:05:06
  use his talents and become a leader as well as a fighter, he
• 1:05:10
  can take over as the corporal in the unit and then I know the men
• 1:05:13
  will be safe, he thought. And with that, the old warrior
• 1:05:16
  pulled his blanket over him and fell asleep.
• 1:05:22
  Right, who we got next? Next is the Chow Chow.
• 1:05:26
  Right. Yusei was a tall, powerful chow
• 1:05:32
  chow. He was big, even for a large
• 1:05:34
  type of dog. Growing up in the eastern city
• 1:05:37
  of Seldi grew. Yusei's childhood had been
• 1:05:40
  harsh. Chow chows were one of the rarer
• 1:05:42
  breeds in the city, and so when his parents died from disease,
• 1:05:45
  the young pup had to beg for food on the city's streets.
• 1:05:48
  One day he was attacked by a group of older boys and had his
• 1:05:51
  long fur partially shaved off. The perpetrator stood there
• 1:05:54
  laughing at him and his sorry state swines.
• 1:05:59
  Six months later, the leader of the gang disappeared.
• 1:06:02
  Then the following week another member.
• 1:06:04
  And so the pan continued. After a few weeks, Yusei
• 1:06:07
  revealed himself to the remaining members as the one who
• 1:06:09
  disappeared the others. He demanded their loyalty or
• 1:06:13
  they would face the same fate. Over the next few years, he
• 1:06:17
  enlarged the gang's territory substantially and was feared by
• 1:06:20
  all in the city. Then one day, his life changed.
• 1:06:24
  The gang chose the wrong target to steal from and were later
• 1:06:27
  ambushed by the city guard led by the Lycan nobility the gang
• 1:06:31
  had stolen from. Most of the gang were executed
• 1:06:33
  on the spot, but Husei and a handful of others were gaoled
• 1:06:36
  for their crimes. A few years later, Husei was
• 1:06:40
  dragged out from his cell, a pale imitation of the once
• 1:06:43
  powerful dog who'd entered prison.
• 1:06:45
  He and the other prisoners were marched to the courtyard where
• 1:06:48
  they were addressed by a Basset Hound in full military regalia.
• 1:06:51
  He introduced himself as Corporal Freud and said that the
• 1:06:54
  prisoners had a chance to redeem themselves.
• 1:06:56
  The recent outbreak of war between the Lichen Leagues and
• 1:06:59
  the Simian Federation meant the army needed more soldiers, he
• 1:07:03
  explained. Join the army and your gaol
• 1:07:05
  terms will be commuted. Use a jumped at the chance to
• 1:07:08
  leave the hell hole behind. The new recruits were taken
• 1:07:12
  almost straight to battle to be used as fodder to overwhelm the
• 1:07:15
  simians. But Yuzzay was not going to get
• 1:07:17
  out of prison and needs to die so quickly.
• 1:07:20
  Gaunts he may have been, but he was still one hell of a fighter.
• 1:07:23
  In the battle that ensued he slayed countless simians,
• 1:07:25
  including a chimp Colonel. The dogs though were eventually
• 1:07:29
  pushed back and found themselves with only one narrow escape
• 1:07:33
  route back to the rest of the army.
• 1:07:35
  Then in in a move that surprised even himself, the once arrogant
• 1:07:39
  and self centred Usay announced he would hold the Simeons off to
• 1:07:42
  allow time for everyone else to escape.
• 1:07:44
  He slew every Simeon that came at him until all his comrades
• 1:07:47
  had made it to safety. This act of extreme heroism
• 1:07:50
  changed Usay. From that day forth he became a
• 1:07:53
  loyal soldier and supported his brothers in arms.
• 1:07:56
  This new attitude, combined with his martial prowess, saw him
• 1:07:59
  quickly elevated to an elite unit at the request of its
• 1:08:02
  corporal, A Basset Hound named Freud.
• 1:08:05
  Since then, he has become one of its most important members but
• 1:08:08
  has refused promotions as he knows what happened the last
• 1:08:10
  time he led a group. Very interesting one.
• 1:08:16
  A lot of. Stories in this whole backing.
• 1:08:19
  This I forgot what they were called.
• 1:08:22
  Hound Platoon. Canine Company.
• 1:08:24
  Canine company. I've got the canine company.
• 1:08:27
  I've got quite a dark past, haven't they?
• 1:08:29
  They have. This is not unusual for the ones
• 1:08:31
  that I write. There has to be seen.
• 1:08:36
  OK, The Doberman up next, please, John.
• 1:08:38
  The Doberman that's over here. So this was wonderfully painted
• 1:08:45
  by our own John Cornfield. Get that in there before we
• 1:08:48
  start. One of Uze's best friends is
• 1:08:52
  also the unit's berserker. Just Justin Jurgen.
• 1:08:56
  To say he's unusual would be an understatement.
• 1:08:58
  Bournemouth 2 heads. He was ostracised by his town
• 1:09:01
  and his family had to move to a remote farm where he was raised
• 1:09:04
  in peace and quiet. Unfortunately, that remote farm
• 1:09:07
  was close to the border with one of the other great powers in the
• 1:09:10
  region, and the Lichen League's continual attempts to expand
• 1:09:13
  their power meant revenge driven border aids were commonplace.
• 1:09:18
  During one of these raids, Yerston Jurgen's family was
• 1:09:21
  slaughtered in front of him and he was left close to death.
• 1:09:25
  Somehow he survived, although the massive scar across his
• 1:09:29
  chest shows just how close he came to death that day.
• 1:09:32
  Fleeing deeper into the League's territory, he came across a
• 1:09:35
  recruitment team and signed up for the army, determined to
• 1:09:37
  avenge his family. Initially he struggled with the
• 1:09:40
  fighting elements of the army. 1/2 of him had always been
• 1:09:43
  extremely calm and happy, and would often be seen with his
• 1:09:45
  tongue out. Yerston while the other half was
• 1:09:49
  more aggressive, Jurgen The two halves worked together to figure
• 1:09:52
  out a way to fight and finally agreed that Jiersten would be
• 1:09:55
  armed with a shield to offer protection while Jurgen would
• 1:09:58
  carry a wicked sword to kill their enemies.
• 1:10:01
  This combination worked extremely well and Jiersten
• 1:10:03
  Jurgen worked his way through the various units until he
• 1:10:06
  arrived with his current elite unit.
• 1:10:09
  He soon bonded with use as the two most ferocious warriors
• 1:10:12
  within it. I never realised it painted a
• 1:10:17
  Jurgen. Yeah, he was.
• 1:10:19
  Originally he was Jurgen. And then I thought, Oh no, I
• 1:10:21
  need separate names on the other head.
• 1:10:22
  So he was used in Jurgen? Works great.
• 1:10:26
  OK, the Saint Bernard next, please, John, absolutely.
• 1:10:31
  OK, Come on, Ambrose, let me let me try that again.
• 1:10:37
  That was not the right voice. Come on, Ambrose slurred.
• 1:10:40
  The hungover St Bernard, the Serge has given his prisoner
• 1:10:44
  duty. Oh great, thanks.
• 1:10:46
  Higgins replied. Ambrose, I have a shitty duty
• 1:10:48
  now thanks to your attitude. With that the two dogs made off
• 1:10:52
  towards the wooden cages on the far side of the camp.
• 1:10:55
  Higgins hated his life. He was an experienced soldier
• 1:10:58
  and a good fighter, but he'd had enough of war now and just
• 1:11:00
  wanted to get drunk. He even carried a small barrel
• 1:11:03
  of ale around his neck, hidden under his tabard.
• 1:11:05
  If any officers are around he he would have been thrown out of
• 1:11:09
  the army a long time ago except for the fact he was an
• 1:11:11
  accomplished healer even now in his often hungover state.
• 1:11:15
  His colleagues had begin to look down on me even more over the
• 1:11:17
  last few months though as his drinking.
• 1:11:19
  Drinking had really picked up when yet another offensive was
• 1:11:23
  announced by the Lichen Lords to claim more territory from the
• 1:11:26
  Simian Federation. A long serving healer in the
• 1:11:30
  army, Higgins life changed one day when he overheard a
• 1:11:32
  conversation between two Lichen captains.
• 1:11:36
  They were discussing how the stupid dogs were just born and
• 1:11:38
  bred slaves for the wolves, beasts of servitude and war and
• 1:11:42
  nothing more. These wars are just are just
• 1:11:46
  using us to fight their wars, he told the others.
• 1:11:48
  The next day Corporal Freud pulled into one side and
• 1:11:52
  explained. Yes lad, I know that, as do many
• 1:11:55
  others. But we are soldiers and we fight
• 1:11:58
  for our people. We fight to keep all breeds of
• 1:12:00
  canine safe from the enemy. The lichens to keep all breeds
• 1:12:06
  of canine safe from the enemies. The lichens to keep all breeds
• 1:12:09
  of canine safe from the enemy. We should refuse and demand
• 1:12:13
  peace, replied Higgins. Don't be a bloody fool.
• 1:12:16
  Said an arrogant looking pit bull stepping out from behind a
• 1:12:18
  tent. You're a soldier Higgins, a
• 1:12:21
  Sergeant no less and will do your duty.
• 1:12:24
  I will not Austin, replied Higgins.
• 1:12:27
  I am a healer and can't let the death and violence continue when
• 1:12:30
  it need not. With that Higgins walked out
• 1:12:33
  into the middle of a camp and told all what he now knew.
• 1:12:36
  He was soon clubbed to the ground by a lighting captain.
• 1:12:39
  The only thing that stopped him being executed on the spot was
• 1:12:41
  the pleas of his fellow canines. He had saved many of their lives
• 1:12:44
  and they had him a debt after all.
• 1:12:47
  He was demoted for daring to question the lichens and warned
• 1:12:50
  that if he used those words again he would be gaoled or
• 1:12:53
  worse. Now just a lowly and bitter
• 1:12:56
  soldier. He still complaints, but does so
• 1:12:58
  just to his unit. 1 day he thinks himself.
• 1:13:02
  Either the ale or an enemy will get the better of me and then
• 1:13:04
  this hell will be over. That's another Dark 1, isn't it?
• 1:13:08
  These are all pretty dark. Yeah, awesome for poor.
• 1:13:14
  Was was was he named after Higgins in Ted Lasso?
• 1:13:19
  No, again, Daughter came up with the name.
• 1:13:20
  She's not seen Ted Lasso, so no. But it's a good fit.
• 1:13:24
  Yeah, yeah. And always.
• 1:13:25
  He named that the one out of the Magnum Pi either.
• 1:13:29
  Good name though. Yeah, good name.
• 1:13:30
  Yeah, right. The Rottweiler next, please,
• 1:13:32
  John. Rottweiler.
• 1:13:38
  Opening the cage door, Ambrose pulled out a snubber nosed
• 1:13:41
  monkey dressed in fine armour. You're coming with us Simeon
• 1:13:44
  scum. He said.
• 1:13:45
  We had orders to take you to see the General himself.
• 1:13:48
  You'll might not likely leave there alive, or at the very
• 1:13:51
  least you won't be whole anymore.
• 1:13:52
  With that he shoved the monkey along in front of him and
• 1:13:54
  Higgins. He's really not our enemy.
• 1:13:57
  Higgins said quietly as they walked through the camp.
• 1:13:59
  Don't start on that nonsense again, Higgins.
• 1:14:02
  Snarled. Ambrose, the Simians are enemies
• 1:14:04
  and I've seen too many friends cut down by one of them to
• 1:14:06
  listen to talk of peace. The Lycan League's victory over
• 1:14:09
  the Simian Federation will only be a matter of time and we shall
• 1:14:12
  be avenged. Ambrose had once regarded the
• 1:14:15
  Saint Bernard as a close friend, but after hearing the language
• 1:14:18
  Higgins had started spouting, he now disliked him and borderline
• 1:14:21
  despised him. All Ambrose wanted to do was
• 1:14:23
  fight for the glory of the Leagues and defend his homeland.
• 1:14:26
  He was a loyal soldier to the Wolves and would protect them
• 1:14:29
  and their lands with his life. Sure.
• 1:14:34
  OK, yes, yeah, there's long and short in here.
• 1:14:37
  I don't know, like, you know, really bore everyone to speak.
• 1:14:39
  I don't know. It's good.
• 1:14:41
  I like the the sort of guard dog element you got in there.
• 1:14:46
  Yeah, that was the thinking behind it.
• 1:14:47
  Yeah. Prisoner duty and guarding.
• 1:14:49
  And everything else. Yeah, right.
• 1:14:51
  The Pitbull next please, John. So this uses a more way head
• 1:14:58
  painted by Mark again, really fabulously painted one and this
• 1:15:02
  is probably what got me thinking about dog sculpts and really
• 1:15:04
  doing it properly. So curse you Mark for painting
• 1:15:06
  it so well. All right then, wait here for
• 1:15:11
  me. Said the surly looking Sergeant
• 1:15:13
  Austin when the two dogs and their prisoner arrived at the
• 1:15:15
  General's tent. This is a chance for me to
• 1:15:18
  impress the General. He thought to himself as he
• 1:15:19
  pulled back the fabric to enter the guard area of the General's
• 1:15:22
  tent. My unit captured the monkey and
• 1:15:24
  when he spills his secrets I will be rewarded as the leader
• 1:15:27
  of the unit. Austin was a grizzled veteran of
• 1:15:31
  countless battles but wanted more.
• 1:15:33
  He had been raised to Sergeant and moved to an elite unit, but
• 1:15:35
  he still wanted more. His men followed him loyally and
• 1:15:39
  respected him. Well, maybe except for Higgins
• 1:15:41
  now, but still he wanted more. He believed the guard corpse was
• 1:15:45
  where the real glory lay. The chance to be around colonels
• 1:15:49
  and generals, maybe even like and nobility was what he craved.
• 1:15:53
  This was his chance. You may enter with your
• 1:15:56
  prisoner. The guard captain told him.
• 1:15:59
  Just you and the prisoner though.
• 1:16:01
  This was music to Austin's ears. He didn't want to share the
• 1:16:03
  glory after all. He brought the monkey into the
• 1:16:06
  tent and then through the general's, then through to the
• 1:16:08
  general's personal quarters. The general was not alone
• 1:16:11
  however. There was a smaller dog there
• 1:16:13
  with him. The dog was not messed, dressed
• 1:16:15
  in a military uniform, nor was he wearing a tab.
• 1:16:17
  Odd. A marker of any kind bearing the
• 1:16:19
  sigil of his breed. OK, on to the next Wolf, please,
• 1:16:25
  John. Last two.
• 1:16:26
  Here we go. So this is the Wolf General?
• 1:16:31
  Yeah, he is. Yeah.
• 1:16:33
  Using a knight builder armoury. Right, Rather body.
• 1:16:36
  And then, you know, he's got an eye patch.
• 1:16:38
  I'd take an arm off him as well. He's grizzled.
• 1:16:41
  He's fought a lot of stuff. Undo the prisoner's restraints.
• 1:16:46
  The general said, standing up for me on his table.
• 1:16:49
  But Sir, he's a dangerous enemy and I'm not armed.
• 1:16:51
  Austin said before quickly catching himself.
• 1:16:54
  Release him now. Snarled the large one.
• 1:16:57
  I'm one armed wolf. Clearly annoyed at his his order
• 1:17:01
  being questioned, the wolf only had one eye to stare at him
• 1:17:05
  with, but Austin immediately obeyed and cut the monkey's
• 1:17:07
  restraints. Both of you, take a seat.
• 1:17:10
  The wolf ordered. What do you want of me?
• 1:17:13
  Asked the monkey. I want your help, Replied the
• 1:17:16
  wolf. The monkey looked confused.
• 1:17:19
  I know you are Lord Blue Sword. The wolf carried on.
• 1:17:22
  I need your help with an urgent matter will benefit both our
• 1:17:25
  peoples. General, you've been mistaken
• 1:17:27
  for someone else. Said the monkey.
• 1:17:29
  I am certainly not a Lord, you are Lord Blue Sword of the Snub
• 1:17:34
  Nose royal family. Said the smaller dog, stepping
• 1:17:36
  out from the corner of the room. We've been tracking you for some
• 1:17:39
  time for the right moment to take you captive.
• 1:17:42
  The monkey started to protest but realised the game was up.
• 1:17:46
  My family will not pay any ransom to get me back.
• 1:17:48
  Like and scum. He growled at his captors.
• 1:17:52
  You misunderstand Lord. Continued the wolf.
• 1:17:55
  I do not want any ransom for you.
• 1:17:56
  I want your help in return for your freedom.
• 1:17:59
  We have recently become aware of a return threat from the north,
• 1:18:02
  far away from our lands and need to investigate it.
• 1:18:06
  Enough of your lies, spat the monkey.
• 1:18:08
  There are no lands to the north. What do you really want?
• 1:18:12
  Oh, I assure you there are, smiled the wolf.
• 1:18:15
  My ancestors came from there a long time ago.
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  The monkey looks shocked. Just because your people have
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  little knowledge, don't presume it is the same for mine.
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  Said the wolf, smiling even more broadly at the visibly squirming
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  monkey. He continued.
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  The people of those lands are called humans and they were once
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  great enemies of the lichens. Some have recently been seen in
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  our lands and we need to know if this is a scouting party for a
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  larger invasion. Be warned Simeon, if they come,
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  they will come for all the peoples of this continent.
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  The nearest port is in Simeon territory and I need you to get
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  my spy safely on board a ship heading north.
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  Who will be sailing the ship? Inquired the monkey.
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  The Legions do not have vessels capable of travelling that sort
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  of distance you talk about. The Ocean Clans have agreed to
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  let my spy travel on one of their pirate vessels.
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  Replied the wolf. They can see the threat posed by
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  humans, you should too. The slub nosed monkey thought
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  about the request and ran through all the options to him.
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  Enemy. The Lycans were a good thing for
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  the simians, but at the same time if he refused he would be
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  held captive or or even worse executed.
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  He had a young family at court and wanted to see them again
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  desperately. Worse still, what if the wolf
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  wasn't exaggerating and the humans were indeed set on
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  destroying Symbians as well as the wolves?
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  Very well. He replied.
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  I will take your spy to the port.
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  But know this wolf, if it isn't an enemy from the north that you
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  need to fear most, it is me. You killed all my men and their
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  families when you captured me, and I will have my revenge for
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  them. The wolf laughed at the threat
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  and sat down once again behind the table.
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  He gestured towards what Austin could now see was a dachshund.
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  Sebastian, leave with this fall. Now before I did, I decide my
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  desire for monkey flesh is greater than my interest in the
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  humans. Sergeant has scored them both
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  safely out of camp. The football stood up and made
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  for the door. Oh, and Sergeant?
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  Snarled the wolf. If anyone outside this room
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  hears of this mission, I will be feasting on dog, not monkey.
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  Austin's heart sank. He knew this was not a chance
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  for him to join the guard, and in fact, if he even spoke of it,
• 1:20:24
  he would be killed. He will be stuck with Higgins
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  and the others for a long time yet to come.
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  Right. And what accent was that monkey?
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  It started Irish ish and went off and all sorts of directions.
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  Yeah, I started going down the Irish and suddenly thought,
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  well, I'm going to meet John does Irish accents for this sort
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  of stuff. So I probably don't want to be
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  going down that route. Yeah, well you need to do a
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  simian company then for for the next Letterheads.
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  Simian Federation. Yes, absolutely.
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  I've already got ideas. Do you have any?
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  Is there any monkey head scuffs out there?
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  There's a few space. There is a snubbernose monkey,
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  and he's a character in this because I've got him painted up
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  and ready to go. OK.
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  I think walk in customs did that one a while back.
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  Oh yeah, yeah. OK, so the last character,
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  little Sebastian, the Dash and the Dashund, clad in armour
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  clearly not of the Lichen leagues and wearing a brown
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  brown cloak and hat, bowed to the wolf and left the tent with
• 1:21:25
  the monkey in the pit bull. He walked much taller than his
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  height, however, as he knew how vital he was to this mission.
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  Sebastian had been a quiet child, often not picked by the
• 1:21:35
  other children for games and overlooked by the adults when
• 1:21:37
  tasks were required to be done. Over time he became insulated
• 1:21:40
  and withdrawn and angry towards everybody.
• 1:21:43
  Then he began to realise that he could make use of being ignored
• 1:21:45
  so much. He started stealing from people
• 1:21:47
  who just ignored his presence. Then he started spying on people
• 1:21:50
  and leaving notes for them, telling them he knew what they
• 1:21:53
  did behind closed doors. Inevitably, this then led to
• 1:21:57
  blackmail and Sebastian began to get rich.
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  One day an army set up camp a few miles from the village and
• 1:22:03
  Sebastian decided to go there and steal what he could.
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  As usual, this diminutive, quiet dog was able to move around
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  virtually unnoticed. He entered the commander's tent,
• 1:22:12
  stole a purse and was heading back out when a huge wolf
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  entered. Sebastian tried to hide it, but
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  it was no use. The wolf had seen him.
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  Well, well, snarled the wolf. What do we have here?
• 1:22:24
  A little thief. I've never tasted Dashon before,
• 1:22:27
  so I will enjoy this. So if I may, Came a soft voice
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  from behind the wolf. Out stepped the dog, dressed in
• 1:22:34
  brown and wearing a tall hat. This boy has shown extraordinary
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  stealth to get past your guards and into the tent, General.
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  Said the dog. Rather than killing him, maybe I
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  could put him to better use. You want to recruit him?
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  Bernard replied the wolf. Very well take him and make him
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  useful to the Leagues. A new feeling swept over
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  Sebastian. Gratitude.
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  This dog had looked out for him and saved him.
• 1:22:59
  After that, Sebastian loyally followed what turned out to be
• 1:23:01
  the league's spymaster. He learned from him and honed
• 1:23:05
  his spy craft. One day the spymaster announced
• 1:23:07
  he was retiring and told Sebastian he was recommended to
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  the Lichen Lord's Sebastian Beard replacement.
• 1:23:15
  Sebastian now runs a network of spies throughout throughout the
• 1:23:18
  Lichen Leagues and other territories charged with
• 1:23:21
  protecting the League. When he heard a few weeks ago of
• 1:23:24
  strange creatures sailing close to shore, he had immediately
• 1:23:27
  dispatched spies to the coast. When one of those spies returned
• 1:23:31
  and described what could only be humans, Sebastian had decided he
• 1:23:36
  himself must be sure the ancient enemy had returned.
• 1:23:39
  Now he must ventures through enemy territory, board a vessel
• 1:23:43
  and straight sail to a strange new land to discover what the
• 1:23:46
  truth is. Sebastian smiled as he, the
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  monkey and the Pitbull rode off. This would be a mission that his
• 1:23:52
  skill set would be truly tested on.
• 1:23:56
  And there we have. It excellent.
• 1:23:58
  Well done. You deserve it.
• 1:24:02
  You deserve a swig after all that.
• 1:24:05
  Oh boy, she's going completely. Yeah, not a swig the figure.
• 1:24:09
  Yeah. It's a sweet body underneath it,
• 1:24:11
  so yeah. Right, well before we completely
• 1:24:16
  kill Rich's vocal chords. I think we leave it at that for
• 1:24:19
  the for this week. Hope you enjoyed that.
• 1:24:22
  I really enjoyed the story Rich. I'm not just blowing smoke up
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  your doggy. Excellent.
• 1:24:27
  Some really cool bits in there. Really cool.
• 1:24:29
  Yeah, I love all the bit of linking them and that sort of
• 1:24:32
  stuff as well. It's quite old to do that.
• 1:24:34
  Yeah, the Jeremy does that with the Legion stories sometimes as
• 1:24:37
  well. Yeah, it's very, it's a very
• 1:24:41
  smart way to link them together and to kind of build the
• 1:24:46
  intrigue for the next part, you know, as you're dropping them
• 1:24:49
  daily, for example, on the Cabal or you know, when he does with
• 1:24:52
  the teaser, so. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:24:55
  Very cool. Have a good one.
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  Stay safe out there, everybody. And remember, if you see a
• 1:25:02
  little Bastion wearing a hat by you, behave