Across the great river from Nokandoo is a dense forest. Deep within the forest at the foot of a great mountain is the “small” village of the Mbenga tribe.
The Mbenga tribe is quite small and their village is nestled up against an ancient idol of unknown origins.
Number 1 sons house.
Small huts for village warriors and their families.
Smnall warriors hut
Small warriors hut.
Idol and ruins.
The village
Chief and his wives outside his hut.
Ceremonial house
Ceremonial house with roof removed.
Number 2 son’s hut
Witch doctor’s hut
The village
The village
The Village
I still have a lot more to do including native canoes lots of scatter terrain and scratch built perimeter wall and animal enclosures. I also have these from Old Glory figures to paint up:
Masked warriors of the Mbenga!
Tribal Villagers. I have already used the fellows in fez for my Turkish Napoleonic army officers.
Tribal drum and characters. At the moment the huts will give me enough terrain to use for African skirmish games, but it will look a lot better when it is all done.
Great work on the village Dave, and some cool looking models to populate it.
Thanks Dave. The models and scatter terrain will make the scene.
Nicely done, Dave! 🙂
Thanks John. Still more to be done to make it look OK.
Very nice mate, when you say “small warriors hut”, is that a small hut for warriors or a hut for small warriors? 🤔
Cheers Roger.
Roger you raise a very interesting question, and one which was only solved with the publishing of the “Annus Mirabilis” papers in 1905.
Size is relative. This means that if either a small Pygmy or a large Massai warrior were moving past the hut at the speed of light or that indeed the hut is moving past them at close to the speed of light then the two warriors would experience what is termed “length contraction”. Proper length or size of an object, such as the hut in question, should be measured when the two warriors and the hut are both at rest. As the two warriors are in the middle of the jungle with fierce animals everywhere they are never at rest so the hut is always of variable size.
I hope that answers your very serious and important question!
Errrrrrr, yes of course it does! 🤯
Glad to hear!
Great looking village there Dave. Nice work.
Cheers,
Pete.
Thanks Dave it is coming along!
All very cool mate 👌🏼
Dave Stone has some excellent stuff that I intend to add soon!