Constable Flint & Probationary Constable Buggy Swires
Constable Flint
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| Flint is all milliput with a Games Workshop dwarf helmet. He is modelled inspecting a strange white substance held in a bag in his hand. Buggy his partner has not noticed this yet as he has been distracted and is pointing at something away to the right. I tried to model Flint's face on the Paul Kidby drawing. | |
Probationary Constable Buggy Swires
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The picture in the Watch Diary shows him with small paper knife sword and badge which is as big if not bigger than him strapped to his back. He is only 5" tall. Buggy is based on a Games Workshop Epic figure and is positioned on Flint's back. |
Design Notes
Constable Flint
There is a suggestion that a Troll called Galena, aka Rock or Cliffe during his career in moving pictures, later changed his name to Flint and is the same Flint recorded as being in the Watch.He is 7 foot tall with pointed ears, granite colour with nose like mans first attempt at an axe and fist the size and hardness of a foundation stone. Armed with a club with a nail in it. His practice of ascertaining what a substance is by dipping a finger in it and then tasting it lead to him spending 3 days tied to his bed after he tried this on a black-market consignment of ammonium chloride cut with radium.
He is often partnered with Buggy.
Constable Buggy Swires
A little lump of a gnome 6" tall, high in pent-up aggression. Inspires respect or at least the bladder trembling terror that can pass for respect. He has an adapted small paper knife sword, the standard weapon of a gnome officer. When it rains Buggy fashions himself a mackintosh out of a Stonkie with a pair of scissors (Read the book for a fuller explanation). When first encountered Buggy was sitting on Flint's head and I assumed that he patrolled perched on the troll's shoulders, but when patrolling with Visit it appears that he walked. In Jingo he is attached to the Chitterling Street Station.
By the time of the Night Watch Corporal Buggy has taken to using birds to help with his duties. A sparrow hawk was better to help with traffic duties as it can hover. When required to set up an observation point on the top of the Tower of Art he uses a heron to carry himself and his equipment, which includes a tiny telescope in the herons saddlebags and a portable semaphore (Littlebottom uses a telescope to be able to see his messages. The heron (and presumably the hawk) has a string harness which he holds and grips the bird with his knees. Buggy caught the heron by painting himself green like a frog and hiding in the marshes croaking. When the heron tried to eat him he climbed up its beak and knutted it.
Buggy had secretly installed posts that the portable semaphore arms slotted into on the Tower a few weeks ago. The floor of the tower is covered in the compost of ivy leaves and old raven nests. He strapped the telescope to the edge of a stone. While on the Tower of Arts the 12 ravens that live there kept interrupting him by asking what was happening (they can talk due to all the magic around them), and even took cover with him and the heron in an ivy hung arch between two turrets when hailstones as big as his head fell. P35