77149: Damien, Hellborn POST-APOC Wizard (conversion)

[Jordan Peacock]

When I post something like this, it's not because I think the painting is brag-worthy (because that's an area where I need a LOT of work), but I have a lot of fun with kit-bashing and re-purposing figures (especially Bones!) for something slightly different than the original subject matter.

 

Reaper Bones 77149: Damien, Hellborn Wizard (post-apocalyptic conversion)

 

One thing that struck me about Damien is that he SO looks like, if it weren't for that staff, he looks like such a punk (in a good way!) that he'd fit in with some setting such as Shadowrun or even a more conventional cyberpunk game (since he could just have a "biosculpt" job or some really CRAZY wetware).  Also, that staff went all wibbly-wobbly bendy, and I KNOW that the preferred fix is to soak everything in hot water, etc., etc., but it's really hit-and-miss for me where this is concerned, and half the time I just end up replacing bendy staves with a piece of wire, or something else entirely.

 

In this case, I went for "something else entirely."  I grabbed a big ol' gun from my "bitz" box that I assume is from a Necromunda conversion.  (I often pick up "bitz" through trades and deals rather than always chopping them off figures myself, so I'm not always sure what the origin was.)  I left a piece of staff in the left hand, and used a pinning drill and wire to attach the gun there, leaving the staff segment as a handle/grip.

 

For the base, I used some black-dyed epoxy putty to fill out the integral plastic Bones base out to the edges of the top of a standard round 25mm game base (as the figure itself is pretty light, and I didn't want the heavy gun to make this guy fall over if the table got bumped, so I opted for a slightly wider footprint ... though in retrospect I probably didn't need the increase in elevation).  The stop sign is a piece of printed cardstock mounted on a bent piece of pewter Reaper sprue.  (I occasionally run off sheets packed with caution stripe and tiny poster images and street signs and license plates and monitor displays and newspaper front pages and other such things, after an extensive Google search, so I have an arsenal of flat details I can add to terrain pieces and large bases.  I'm not always absolutely certain about the scale, though.)

 

I was tempted to give him some mirror-shades via putty, but I accidentally managed to get the dots on the eyes in the right places (or close enough for tabletop purposes), so I figured I'd just leave it at that.

 

 

 

[joshuaslater]

huzzah!!!!

[CashWiley]

Right on, loving this one! Damien turns out to be quite the versatile dude. I wonder if Schubert is sitting back chuckling at all the crazy things we've done with his excellent canvas.

[Jordan Peacock]

Right on, loving this one! Damien turns out to be quite the versatile dude. I wonder if Schubert is sitting back chuckling at all the crazy things we've done with his excellent canvas.

 

Other possibilities I considered:

1) Borrowing Astrid's guitar and turning him into a rocker, re-positioning his right arm so he's "tossing the horns."

 

2) Giving him a hat, painted-on shirt, and hiding the tail, turning him into a cowboy / steampunk hero.  But then maybe I could leave the infernal touches and he'd still work in "Deadlands."

 

3) Giving him a tricorn hat, replacing the staff with a cutlass, replacing the "tossing horns" hand with a flintlock, painting the coat red or deep blue with buckles, painting on a fine mustache and goatee, and make him a PIRATE.  Again, optional as to whether he'd still keep the "infernal" details, or whether I'd just try to shave off / hide the tail and horns.

 

Seriously, he offers up a lot of possibilities.  :D  Partly it's the coat, and partly it's that both hands are fairly away from the body and in positions that welcome hand/weapon swaps, with thick enough limb proportions that pinning is a viable option.

[CashWiley]

2) Giving him a hat, painted-on shirt, and hiding the tail, turning him into a cowboy / steampunk hero.  But then maybe I could leave the infernal touches and he'd still work in "Deadlands."

http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/53188-77149-damien-hellborn-gunslinger/

 

:)

[72moonglum]

ah, so pimpish!

[Jordan Peacock]

 

2) Giving him a hat, painted-on shirt, and hiding the tail, turning him into a cowboy / steampunk hero.  But then maybe I could leave the infernal touches and he'd still work in "Deadlands."

http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/53188-77149-damien-hellborn-gunslinger/

 

:)

 

 

Okay, so "rock star" (vocalist, anyway) and "gunslinger" are already covered as per that "beauty contest" thread.  I suppose there's still room for the "pirate" interpretation.  :)

[Baphomet69]

I love Shadowrun. This totally makes me think Seattle 2050.

[redambrosia]

 

 

One thing that struck me about Damien is that he SO looks like, if it weren't for that staff, he looks like such a pimp

FTFY

[lexomatic]

I feel like someone needs to do this version http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2012/10/02/DANIEL-RADCLIFFE-HORNS.jpg