"Thanos the Blacksmith" Topic

When Thanos was born, his mother thought she'd never get a moments rest for he was an inquisitive child with a busy mind and busy hands. By the time he was two, Thanos had taught himself to read and by the time he was five he was taking clocks apart and putting them back together again. "I must know how things work, Momma," he would say. When he grew into a man, he volunteered to do service in the Kings Army. It was here that he developed his love for weaponry.

After a short apprenticeship, Thanos opened his own smithy.

He had an affinity with the steel, an understanding of how it wanted to be shaped. Each blade that left his anvil had it's own personality perfectly matched to that of the man who would one day wield it.

There was one sword that made him famous, the one that became the stuff of legends, the one that could cleave the head off a dragon with a single stroke. During the making of this sword Thanos was heard to speak these words as he labored to bring this blade to life "You, I will make sing with the voice of an angel. For to you, I give my life ten times over." And to this day, that sword hangs still in utter perfection somewhere in the mountains of Connemara. It is said that when the wind blows in from the West, she can be heard crying at the loss of her maker.

This was done to honour my friend Thanos, a Greek wargamer who does the most amazing scratcbuilding you've ever seen.

Nicely done.

There is a "polishing his sword" joke in there somewhere but good blacksmith figures are always a find.

Great ! Your sculpt, or another's ?

The Dark Templar sent this to me and he couldn't remember where he bought it. It had been in his lead pile for years, so I don't know who the sculptor is.

Well Ann, you can tell Thanos I am not happy with him. He started some foxholes quite a while ago, gave us a couple of pictures of the start of the project and that was it, never to be seen again.

Only joking with you, he has done some fantastic terrain and am glad to be a follower of his blog.

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That's right, he didn't finish that. After asking us all about the sizes of coins too! He's in trouble!