GoT - Northerners' recurve bow?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:34 pm
Cleaning up the archery area, I saw with fresh eyes my cheap Chinese horsebow-ish recurve I started with ages ago:
While not a good Middle-earth persona match I think, It's absolutely perfect for a quick jaunt in the woods. I confess I grab it at least as often as my longbow, just 'cause it's so handy and such a manageable weight.
... but it does look awful farby.
I'm considering as a winter project recovering it for more of a Deep Western European Forest feel. What came to mind then was following the general look of the recurves used by Starks and others in the Game of Thrones show.
This is the best picture I've found as an example: has anyone else already been down this rabbit trail and have good pictures of bows and quivers on hand?
It needn't be a perfect match to any show prop, but since the generally good GoT production team has already been down the "make asian recurves look like they actually belong in a Euro-fantasy environment" I figure there's no sense reinventing the wheel.
Thoughts?
While not a good Middle-earth persona match I think, It's absolutely perfect for a quick jaunt in the woods. I confess I grab it at least as often as my longbow, just 'cause it's so handy and such a manageable weight.
... but it does look awful farby.
I'm considering as a winter project recovering it for more of a Deep Western European Forest feel. What came to mind then was following the general look of the recurves used by Starks and others in the Game of Thrones show.
This is the best picture I've found as an example: has anyone else already been down this rabbit trail and have good pictures of bows and quivers on hand?
It needn't be a perfect match to any show prop, but since the generally good GoT production team has already been down the "make asian recurves look like they actually belong in a Euro-fantasy environment" I figure there's no sense reinventing the wheel.
Thoughts?