Winter is coming

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With southerly squalls battering the country, I put some snow on my new Dark age building. My friend Alan bought a laser cutter and has been cranking out laser cut terrain faster than you can say formaldehyde.

He gave me a dark age building that I assembled and painted. The basic kit looks like this.

I sacrificed a teddy bear to make the roof. After some paint, fur and snow it looks like











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