From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
No, James LaManna, I'm not putting more paint on them.
ReplyDeleteWhat game is this for?
ReplyDeleteNeat - some Zaku-like heads on some of those dudes. How big would you say they are?
ReplyDeleteSorry, ignore me, I clicked through :)
ReplyDeleteWow they look pretty good!
ReplyDeleteErik Jensen I bet those Zaku heads are on purpose ;)
Don't even know, Stephen Holowczyk.
ReplyDeletewow ive got a shopping list of these skeletons and tiny space ships now
ReplyDeletehow tall do they stand?
ReplyDeletei use 1/72nd so thinking they will be giant robots or battlesuits or light mecha
about 45mm.
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