[COR-FB] Seawatch Reconnaissance, El Oleonda

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Newly promoted Major Brickleton had arrived just days earlier at Fort Arltrees on the island of El Oleonda. With him were multiple companies of 26th Foot and 18th Hussars.

After conferring with Colonel Wolf, Brickleton sets out with a company of 18th Hussars toward the Carno settlement of Seawatch. Reports suggest the town is under siege by Lotii forces and Brickleton has orders to confirm the veracity of those reports.

While the territory between Fort Arltrees and Seawatch is wild and mostly unexplored, the 18th Hussars, known as "The Lightfoot", are expert horsemen and navigate the terrain with deftness.

The group rides silently toward Seawatch, listening for telltale sounds of the enemy but thus far only hearing the occasional monkey in the underbrush.

Brickleton wonders to himself what they will find as they approach Seawatch.

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OOC: A recon mission to see the status of Seawatch.

A closer up detail shot of the continued experiments with brick-built saddles:

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[Spud The Viking]

Lovely tree branch, and I like the rounded base!

[NOD]

I particularly like the shore area because of the striking sloping tree. It's very noticeable. The saddle is really good, it has space for the gun holder, bag and blanket.

[Captain Dee]

Neat little scene. I really like the drooping tree in the foreground and you did a really good job posing the new-style rigid monkey. And your approach to saddles looks far more realistic than the actual saddle pieces, even if the latter are handy. Brickleton is in the front, right? Who is riding the other horse?

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10 hours ago, Spud The Viking said:

Lovely tree branch, and I like the rounded base!

Thanks! The rounded base allows for a much quicker (a few hours total) build than the SNOT-side base

 

5 hours ago, NOD said:

I particularly like the shore area because of the striking sloping tree. It's very noticeable. The saddle is really good, it has space for the gun holder, bag and blanket.

 

Thanks! Yeah the saddle is coming together! Have a few more ideas to try with it

26 minutes ago, Captain Dee said:

Neat little scene. I really like the drooping tree in the foreground and you did a really good job posing the new-style rigid monkey. And your approach to saddles looks far more realistic than the actual saddle pieces, even if the latter are handy. Brickleton is in the front, right? Who is riding the other horse?

Thanks! Yes that new monkey can be hard to pose because of the outstretched arm. Like I mentioned above, I have a few more fun ideas to try with this saddle approach - I think it looks good on the dark orange horse but I need some other color brackets to make it stand out on the reddish brown horse!

Yes, Brickleton is in front. Behind him is a trooper of the 18th Hussars, the company who are accompanying him on this recon mission. The hussars normally bring flintlock pistols in addition to their sabers, but opted to also bring muskets this time - can never be too prepared!

[Brickwolf]

Beautiful diorama, great tree.

[Ayrlego]

Great scene and nice to see the saddle design evolving some more. I'll be interested to see what they find when the get to Seawatch!

[Jeff of Clubs]

Those saddles are really doing it for me. Fine work on that underbrush! Good luck out there brave gents.

[Kai NRG]

I do love this new horse color!  The saddle design is also clever and I find that bending horn vine pretty cool too.

[LM71Blackbird]

That round bass is very well done! Holds all the foliage in very nice. That fallen log steals the show for me, and the saddle! I like was you've come up with on that.

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On 2/12/2022 at 3:03 PM, Brickwolf said:

Beautiful diorama, great tree.

Thanks!

On 2/12/2022 at 7:13 PM, Ayrlego said:

Great scene and nice to see the saddle design evolving some more. I'll be interested to see what they find when the get to Seawatch!

Thanks! I have some of the minifig neck clips coming in dark brown, white, and bleys - should provide for some fun saddles in other colors too (though limited by the colors that clips on 1x1 tiles come in!).

I'm interested to see what they find in Seawatch, too! I will likely do another build a little farther along their recon with some suggestions for what they are seeing, but hope to hear from the court definitively.

On 2/13/2022 at 8:32 AM, Jeff of Clubs said:

Those saddles are really doing it for me. Fine work on that underbrush! Good luck out there brave gents.

Haha thanks!

On 2/14/2022 at 2:08 PM, Kai NRG said:

I do love this new horse color!  The saddle design is also clever and I find that bending horn vine pretty cool too.

Thanks! Yes, I love that the dark orange horse let's reddish brown contrast a little bit! I saw there is a new dark green zip line coming out later this year and that should allow for more fun vines

12 hours ago, LM71Blackbird said:

That round bass is very well done! Holds all the foliage in very nice. That fallen log steals the show for me, and the saddle! I like was you've come up with on that.

Thanks! Like I've mentioned a few times before, the round base is super fast compared to the SNOT-side bases, so using it helps for a quick build! With the fallen log I tried to have the zipline cross near the junction of the two branch parts so they didn't look too top-heavy!

With the saddle, ever since I tried that the first time it's looked weird to me to go back to the normal TLG saddle... looks like they are just standing on the horse! Something I need to work through 

[Khorne]

I can only echo what the others have said: the side trunk look great and the round black border gives the scene a neat finish. It'll be interesting to read what the scouts have found!