mvoncannon Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. This is a character from a game my group played' date=' actually. He was evolving as the adventures continued... but, here's the miniature that I made for him. Not the best paint job, but it was good enough for the table.[/quote'] Ok. How did you make it? What did you piece together? I have a PC in my group that is a Caporiesta an this would fit perfectly, except for the female and animal part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Ok. How did you make it? What did you piece together? I have a PC in my group that is a Caporiesta an this would fit perfectly, except for the female and animal part. He's from Crocodile Miniatures/Wargods of Aegyptus, if I'm not mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remjin Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Ok. How did you make it? What did you piece together? I have a PC in my group that is a Caporiesta an this would fit perfectly, except for the female and animal part. Uh... female? its not female. I can see how you see that, given the angle, though. I'll explain it further below. He's from Crocodile Miniatures/Wargods of Aegyptus' date=' if I'm not mistaken.[/quote'] Teh Bunneh is correct, that's the miniature in the middle. I made it by simply bending the miniature into the position I want, and sculpting on the ragged pants and torn shirt by mashing some putty into place and then fraying the ends. No actual sculpting skill required. Be careful when you bend it, if you're going to do that, as the arm snapped on mine and I had to put it back together with a pin and some putty. It shouldn't be hard to file down the ears and face to make it look more human. Just use one with a pointy tip so you can groove the nose to look more human. Otherwise, the hair and stuff work fine for a person. The paint job was just base coat, a light wash, and some directed dry-brushing with some free-hand stripes. Obviously, you can skip that part. =) I decided it was easier to just leave the ball rather than try to wittle it away and replant. At the time, I was quite burned out on miniatures and I just had to push myself into finishing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvoncannon Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Thanks Remjin. Repped. Bunneh, I owes you for the link. Will when I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Thanks Remjin. Repped. Bunneh, I owes you for the link. Will when I can. NP. If you're confident in your conversion abilities, it wouldn't be too hard to cut off the cat-like head with a pin saw and glue a replacement head on. Head-swaps are pretty easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remjin Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. NP. If you're confident in your conversion abilities' date=' it wouldn't be too hard to cut off the cat-like head with a pin saw and glue a replacement head on. Head-swaps are pretty easy.[/quote'] Oh sure, give him the easy way out... I never did like smoothing out the neck afterwards, though, so I have a tendency to reshape the one that's on it. Then again, some miniatures don't need it... If you need a bunch of heads, check out Hasslefree Miniatures, they have just heads on a sprues along with weapons and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. NP. If you're confident in your conversion abilities' date=' it wouldn't be too hard to cut off the cat-like head with a pin saw and glue a replacement head on. Head-swaps are pretty easy.[/quote'] ...Sayeth Dr. Frankenstein. Oh sure, give him the easy way out... I never did like smoothing out the neck afterwards, though, so I have a tendency to reshape the one that's on it. Then again, some miniatures don't need it... If you need a bunch of heads, check out Hasslefree Miniatures, they have just heads on a sprues along with weapons and such. You could use that to build a Zaphod mini! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remjin Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. What the heck is that from?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 He still owes me 50 bucks. I believe that's my old roommate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. What the heck is that from?! BBC Production of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remjin Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. BBC Production of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Ah, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NestorDRod Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I liked Log-Man's version better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted December 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Death Tribble has a soft spot for WWII flag characters... I have done a Canuck (Red Ensign, one of my favs) and a Yank (Grunt) with a definite WWII uniform/ weapon feel...but still got a touch of superhero in them. He asked for a russian one (I did a russian tanker turned cryokinetic awhile back)... but DT specifically wanted the PPsh (I added the Makarov).... I think we might eventually have an entire international flag WWII squad at some point. I called the character Red Star, I know that there are a couple of actual comic characters named that. But this is my take on the name. Maybe someone can come up with a better name... the only one I thought of was Bolshevik Bruiser... just cause I love alliteration. And that is too long for a file name (along with sk for sketch, F for final or 72 for 72 dpi). These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Tovarich! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualplayer Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Death Tribble has a soft spot for WWII flag characters... I have done a Canuck (Red Ensign, one of my favs) and a Yank (Grunt) with a definite WWII uniform/ weapon feel...but still got a touch of superhero in them. He asked for a russian one (I did a russian tanker turned cryokinetic awhile back)... but DT specifically wanted the PPsh (I added the Makarov).... I think we might eventually have an entire international flag WWII squad at some point. I called the character Red Star, I know that there are a couple of actual comic characters named that. But this is my take on the name. Maybe someone can come up with a better name... the only one I thought of was Bolshevik Bruiser... just cause I love alliteration. And that is too long for a file name (along with sk for sketch, F for final or 72 for 72 dpi). These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic I would be tempted to call him Great Patriot, derived from The Great Patriotic War. большой патриот in Russian, still trying to find a good source for an Anglisized version of the Russian name. Maybe ask Narratio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybertooth Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Death Tribble has a soft spot for WWII flag characters... I have done a Canuck (Red Ensign, one of my favs) and a Yank (Grunt) with a definite WWII uniform/ weapon feel...but still got a touch of superhero in them. He asked for a russian one (I did a russian tanker turned cryokinetic awhile back)... but DT specifically wanted the PPsh (I added the Makarov).... I think we might eventually have an entire international flag WWII squad at some point. I called the character Red Star, I know that there are a couple of actual comic characters named that. But this is my take on the name. Maybe someone can come up with a better name... the only one I thought of was Bolshevik Bruiser... just cause I love alliteration. And that is too long for a file name (along with sk for sketch, F for final or 72 for 72 dpi). These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic How about the Proletarian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I would be tempted to call him Great Patriot' date=' derived from The Great Patriotic War. [/quote'] souds good to me :thumbup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Comrade Stalin has already taken that name. Well there is a surprise. I was not expecting this until the New Year. I like. The machine gun is quite distinctive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted December 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Tribble, it is in your email, but I did get you were outta the office post...which I expected because ya told me. But yeah, surprise! Hi folks, I do the occasional map as well. This is for Paka's Burning Wheel game. Hope y'all like seeing something a bit different from me. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted December 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. How about "The Marxman"? berandor over on the Burning Wheel forums came up with "The Marxman".... I like it!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legatus Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Marxman? Wonderful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualplayer Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. That is good. Rep for berandor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. "The Marxman - when it comes to class warfare, he's in a class of his own!" Akin to Stalin being "Man of Steel", whatever the Russian is for "Man of Lead" could be good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. How about Comrade in Arms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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