77154 Elliwyn Heatherlark Bones conversion

[Mad Jack]

 This was my entry for the Little People Jan '15 Beauty Pageant, so I figured I may as well post it here as well.

 

      77164  Elliwyn Heatherlark

      77126  Vermin: Spider

 

 I probably shouldn't have picked this project for my first attempts at painting drow skin, white hair, freehand details, realistic gems, and both silver and gold NMM all at the same time, lol.

 

This started out as just me goofing around during the painting binge weekend a few months ago, but turned into a much bigger project when I decided to enter her in this.

Originally, I was just trying to do something with all the KS bones I was never going to paint - I grabbed a random handful of them and started splicing. Which is why she was glued together and based before I started greenstuffing or painting, and why I just couldn't be bothered to remove a lot of the mold lines...

Once I got her stuck together, I realized just greenstuffing the join between her waist and the spider wouldn't cut it, so I extended her tunic into a skirt.

Then I realized - after she was already three-quarters painted - that I'd sliced her straight across under the belt, which left lumps on her belt on either side from the stuff that used to hang off it...

So I had to sculpt a large pouch on her right side and a loop on the other to hold her sword (I hate minis holding weapons with no visible place to stow them...)

 

(Yes, there really are shadows and highlights on her, her eyes are red, the freehand on the shield was meant to be a stylized spiderweb, and the base was given several sloppy washes so the tide marks when they dried would make the grey base look like a cavern floor...)

 

 Crappy pics ahoy!

 

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 And now for the bonus round...

 

 What do you do with all your spare parts after the conversions?

 

 I call it...

 

 I- doll -atry: Worshipping The Golden Calf

 

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 Inspired by both the temple idol in the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark and by the "Major Award" leg lamp from A Christmas Story.

 The stone pillar and base are handsculpted.

 

 

 I'm personally most proud of how the sword came out, although I will freely claim that it looks that good because I had Derek Schubert's version of this mini onscreen the whole time and blatantly copied it as best I could.

 

 C&C welcome, although I'm aware I messed up the jewel effect on her belt and the NMM on her necklace - I was rushing this piece and settled for a half-arsed job on some of the details...

 

You may now all be too apathetic to point and laugh...

Edited April 29 by Mad Jack

[Humansquish]

Halfling Drider, that is awesome! The conversion and sculpting are very well done.

[Chaoswolf]

I think she came out great, nice job! Also congrats on a very interesting idea; I would've never thought to mash those two miniatures together.

[Sanael]

Ha..."golden calf"...hehe. thanks for that! Needed it on my way into the office.

 

And I love the conversion! Definitely not something I would've thought to do, but I like it a bunch. Love her hair.

[Pingo]

Golden ... Calf.

 

Arrrgh.

[rgtriplec]

Nice work. The calf idea is golden. Someone is gonna put that in their rpg or as scenario objective.

[tiniest rhombus]

Awesome conversion! She looks so good. That Idol... love. I can't help but think it needs a fragile sticker somewhere tho. ;-)

[ub3r_n3rd]

HAHA! Awesome, great job MJ!!

[LittleBluberry]

An inspired, if unconventional, conversion.  Thanks for sharing it! 

[Mad Jack]

  Well, as I said, I literally randomly grabbed some bones out of my box with the intention of switching up the top and bottom halves of one or more of them - I needed something vaguely gnome-sized to stick her on, and the spider happened to be sitting near her in the box...

 

 Two other bones from the vamp box got the "centaur" treatment as well: Mariel Twinspar + Medusa and Clay Golem + Hellhound, and a third may be upcoming at some point in the future (tiny fire elemental familiar + scorpion = salamander).

The first and possibly second should be done at some point this month, although I may well wait on the clay golem and finish the salamander first since it's a smaller project.

Edited February 7, 2015 by Mad Jack