The SS Ahnenerbe expedition to Tibet discovered a sacred cave that Buddhist Monks believed led to an underworld where the sacred city of Shambhala was located. The monks were persuaded to reveal the location of the cavern by Her Flick, a Gestapo agent spying on Himmler's Expedition for Goering.
The cave certainly opened into somewhere, a mysterious world inhabited by prehistoric monsters as detailed by Jules Verne in his supposed novel 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'.
Local humans had domesticated a bipedal carnivore. The Stormtruppen seized various examples for study and a breeding program. Unfortunately, all the animals acquired were males, as indicated by the mating display on the head. Nevertheless they trained some to be SS-Kavallerie abd named their unit after the expedition leader, Dr Ernst Schäfer.
One soldier in each troop was armed with an MG 34. The mounts were surprisingly indifferent to gunfire.
Alas, the expedition got lost in the complex of tunnels trying to reach the 'surface' and emerged in Afghanistan, only to find the world was not quite as they remember it.
Models by Eureka.
Dear John,
ReplyDeleteIn Belize for a family vacation 20 years ago we visited a butterfly farm. the ru4r group was on a semicircle of bleachers listening to the Danish co-owner describing operations when a foot-long brilliantly colored lizard ran up behind the lady and paused at her feet. I pointed to it and asked what it was. She turned around and said to me in a very puzzled tone, "This is George, who helps with the farm.''
The lizard by now ran under the bleachers. Apparently it was just in breeding plumage. For the rest of the trip Jonathan regularly broke me up by saying solemnly, "This is George...."
Dave
Your lizard is much bigger
A metallic green skink thing ran up my arm when I was on the phone to Val when in Florida, I screamed and dropped the phone. She was convinced I’d been shot....
DeleteExcellent piece John, reminds me of Iron Sky 2 which was no where near as good as the first film, but like your model very much
ReplyDeleteVery unhappy movie, Dave. Some nice scenes though.
DeleteHi John Nice paint job another contrafactual history Weird World War II has werewolves and Zombies (lots of rotting Russians) so why not dinosaur cavalry :)
ReplyDeleteBy view exactly, Shaun.
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