"Gramps" 1776 Knight.

[Evilhalfling]

This is a conversion of Halloween Knight, made to represent a former PC.  & get points for a holiday figure in the RCL 
the head is from a zombie, which had great eyes, with a little gapfill on the head. 

 

"Gramps" was a 4e D&D warlord.  I played him from 2009 -2013   in any Adventure league game that he fit into. 

he made it all the way to lvl 12, the highest lvl I have ever played in any Adventure league or Society.  

his favorite sayings  
"Im too old for this broccoli . 
"a barbarian hits things with his axe, a warlord hits things with his barbarian."
"I am going to retire after this one last mission.." 

He could go entire missions without ever hitting anyone, giving away all his attacks to the most damage focused characters. 
His sword was called  "A little to the left"  and the  sword could give away its attack bonus to an ally 1/encounter - after the roll.  

He was at least 70 and human and claimed to have fought in every conflict in the last 200 years (probably lies) 
so apparently he made his way into the American Revolutionary war, after 4e was replaced. 

Edited September 19 by Evilhalfling

[Inarah]

Great idea for a conversion. 

 

[Rigel]

Love this old coot! The chest full of medals is a great touch and of course that shield is genius. 

[Chaoswolf]

Good job on him; love the backstory!

[Humansquish]

That is awesome.

[Neatpete]

#legend

[Glitterwolf]

One hero who will die with his boots on!

I think I may have spotted him in some history books...

 

Good job, love the medals and the shield!

[Poilu_1914]

Excellent conversion, love the whole concept.

[Adrift]

Lmao, I love it! I loved 4e. People should have given it more of a chance. 

[Iridil]

Wonderful conversion and story

[Grand Slam]

I agree...inspired idea for a conversion (and very well-executed). That shield is particularly cool and I really like the color scheme on his armor.

 

He sounds like he was a great character, too. 

[Evilhalfling]

4 hours ago, Grand Slam said:

I agree...inspired idea for a conversion (and very well-executed). That shield is particularly cool and I really like the color scheme on his armor.

 

He sounds like he was a great character, too. 

thanks, the armor was me just playing with the shiny paints from reapercon swag.
I don't even remember what magic armor Gramps wore,  he had some, but it might have just been the highest+ he could afford. 
in 4e almost every item had some cool power -  the only edition that made +1 no power weapons/armor/defense rare. Eventually characters could get too many, but each one was special by itself. 
I don't remember the specifics, but his shield also healed allies.  It was only a level ~6  item, so the revolutionary shield is obviously and overdue upgrade. 

 

Edited September 23 by Evilhalfling

[Evilhalfling]

On 9/19/2023 at 4:11 PM, Rigel said:

Love this old coot! The chest full of medals is a great touch and of course that shield is genius. 

 i dont understand why the halloween knight had that chest ornament, anyway.  I cut a similar one off another bones figure this week, just removing all the plastic that did not match the shape of the armor below it.  ie sculpting with knife. 

[Max Retainers]

This looks great!