Ambition

The day after the MFCA show there was much watching of the "Making Of" bits of the Lord of the Rings extended edition DVDs. Lots about making monsters, and sets, and "miniatures". Especially interesting to E was the "small" Minas Tirith. Ever since inspecting the "siege of Azure City" as part of a miniatures game, in the Order of the Stick comic strip, E has been fascinated with the idea of building a city for miniatures to romp about in.

So tonight he asks me "Dad, how big would a Minas Tirith have to be to be the right size for your action figures?" (as he calls my miniatures).

The answer was easy, because Weta's "small" Minas Tirith for LotR was exactly 1:72 scale, if I recall, which is very good match for 25mm figs.

Weta's "small" Minas Tirith was the better part of nine feet tall.

"Well," I told him, "it would fill this room."

"Wow," he said. Pause. "Well can we build it?"

I am having visions shades of Mrs. Winchester, and/or Richard Dreyfus. "Local recluse added to city for decades, shunned all contact."

But the vision is worthy ...