SouthFarthing Hobbits Ale Cart

South Farthing Hobbit Ale Cart finished! 

Time for a drink in celebration!

It comes in pints?

It's a minor conversion, based on a very old Bugmans Ale cart for the dwarf army for Warhammer Fantasy...from many years ago, probably late 80's I am guessing...

I took off the dwarf driver and disassembled the whole thing and striped it down with Simplegreen and Dettol... and started again...

"Oh you can search far and wide,
You can drink the whole town dry,
But you'll never find a beer so brown,
Oh you'll never find a beer so brown,
As the one we drink in our hometown,
As the one we drink in our hometown.
You can keep your fancy ales,
You can drink them by the flagon,
But the only brew for the brave and true.....
Comes from the Green Dragon!"

I used the seated pair of hobbits from the TreeBeard Mighty Ent set. I also filed down the Bugmans embossed name on the wagon top behind the hobbits, and trimmed the B to a S on the pony's rosette.

15amp fuse wire was added for the reigns.

I based it up on a DIY 60mm round  base from 3mm MDF and DAS clay...

Painting was fairly straight forward, the only tricky bit being the freehand 'Southfarthing' front and back of the barrel top header board. I glued the hobbits into place after I had done the front of the sign...The larger round circular base used in LOTR SBG, made for a rather nice little scenic base depicting a simple wagon way with grassy bushy boarders either side...

And the real Southfarthing Ale... as enjoyed at the Hobbiton Filmset at Matamata, indeed even at the Green Dragon pub!

Then bought afterwards and brought home with us too. Sadly the above is now empty but the bottle is charming and is rinsed and displayed :-)

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In the game

This really was just a self indulgent build, as it has no stats in the game!

Really I made it as a scenic piece for my proposed Hobbiton build.

But I guess it could quickly be used as a scenario objective; to capture or rescue the wagon. No doubt Saruman's roving forces would be out looking to loot supplies for their growing army. Or maybe brigands around the borders from the Shire, or a raiding orc warband? There are many possibilities...

Or perhaps it could have a talismanic effect for Hobbit forces it is deployed alongside, giving them perhaps a boost to courage, and/or a bonus Standfast effect?

Looking forward to seeing it on the tabletop one way or another :-)

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OK, back to the trolls and Warriors of Minas Tirith! ;-) ....