72moonglum Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Hi guys, I finally finished this one up a few nights ago. I knew it was from the eighties but got kind of a surprise when I pulled it off its temporary base and found out it was probably sculpted in 1982! It's a pretty small miniature, smaller than one of Sandra Garrity's female dwarf, to use as a comparison. Not too sure about the dagger, but I kind of like how everthing else came out more or less. I used the Reaper Golden skin highlights as my base color for her skin, giving her hopefully more of an oriental vibe. At first I thought brown hair and gringa skin, but ended up doing her a bit differently. Anyway, hope you enjoy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuaslater Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Superb!! I have this model, and she's tiny!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyHorde Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Nicely done, MG! Good job on the eyes, especially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaGeek Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Very nicely done! You've brought a real old-school mini back to life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stern Kestrelmann Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Blues and browns looking good together... I like the skin tones and eye shadow too. Face looks a bit man-like but that's probably the sculpt and/or that butch hair cut... SK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72moonglum Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 Nicely done, MG! Good job on the eyes, especially. Thanks Greyhorde! As you know I had the 10X magnifying glass on the eyes after having painted them, growing more and more frustrated as I looked at them closer and closer until I ended up curled up under my painting desk, mewling with my thumb in my mouth in a fetal position. Always rather traumatizing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72moonglum Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 Blues and browns looking good together... I like the skin tones and eye shadow too. Face looks a bit man-like but that's probably the sculpt and/or that butch hair cut... Dainty enough to wear makeup and paint her nails, but goes for the utilitarian hair cut. On this one, oddly enough, one of things that drew my attention to this model was the kind of beefy legs this chick's got. SK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brassbaboon Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 The dagger might be an attempt to sculpt a stone dagger. Otherwise I agree it has an odd shape. On the legs... Check out the actual real-world legs on female gymnasts or swimmers. Chicks that do athletic stuff have actual athletic muscles. I'd prefer to see my dagger-wielding female rogue with legs and arms that imply she could actually do some damage with that blade... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72moonglum Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 The dagger itself was sculpted very thickly. I don't think it's supposed to be thick, but just what was done to have it not be so thin as to break in the casting of the figure. It kind of gives it though an odd shadow under the dagger. And yeah, she's got legs that make you think she could crush you under her steel-toed boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Jack Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Oh, man, one of the few old JG sculpts I don't have... Now I'm all envious and stuff... It looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72moonglum Posted October 22, 2011 Author Share Posted October 22, 2011 Thanks Mad Jack! Yeah, there's a few miniatures from Julie Guthrie I don't have either. She has one particularly brutal looking giant chick way back from the eighties that I've never gotten my hands on (it was replaced in her Ral Partha line with some other armored giant), and I really don't have much of her old Elfquest stuff which was really neat. She also had an excellent centaur set of a guy and gal centaur that I have since when I was a teenager, but through some tragedy the male centaur's nose has been smashed flat. I love her style of sculpting from way back, and now that I see her new Reaper stuff too, I am just in awe. Her stuff is amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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