Wee Free Men

What’s that? This project isn’t nerdy enough? Let me fix that for you.

While working on an idea for something to add to the Granny Aching hut base, I decided to add in a packet of a Jolly Sailor tobacco. After Granny died, shepherds were known to leave packs of her favourite tobacco at the old hut site to keep the sheep safe. The feegles continued to keep the sheep (or ships) safe and so they took the tobacco.

Looking around the internet, there were two examples of Jolly Sailor branding but the photos are terrible so just printing them out very small wasn’t going to cut it. Thankfully one of the reference materials I found was a better quality image from Discworld Emporium from one of their older stamps.

I’m not very good at graphic design stuff but I know enough to muddle through so one evening, cribbing ideas from other people’s work, I managed to come up with something I was happy with. I could have spent longer on it, tweaking to my heart’s content but I have to keep in mind that this is not the point of the army, it is an Easter egg. My to do list is long enough!

Printing out a bunch of them very small, I added them to the Granny’s Hut base. I also got round to doing something I’ve hidden from you until now. The Feegle mound has a cut out section at the back to show a little bit of the inside of the mound. In the book, there is a scene where the Kelda’s room is filled with gold so my go to gold glitter came out of hiding. I mixed some with pva to make a thick paste (the less messy option – Smaug’s hoard taught me last year!) and added in some packets of Jolly Sailor while the glue was still wet.

There is this other thing I did with the file…

And yes, I’ve ordered new dice specifically to go with the army’s custom dice tin.

This is not the last you’ve seen of Jolly Sailor in this project.

As I said, this is largely just other people’s homework but here is the full image