03844: Damaris is converted to a fierce pirate babe :D

[Morihalda]

Hello friends! It's good to see you all again! My energy levels have been slowly ramping up over the last month, so now I'm excited to spend a bunch of it here with forum friends.  

 

My husband and I played D&D again with @Rainbow Sculptor and her family over the weekend and had a great time. While we were playing, they brought out this mini - she was gorgeous and I had completely forgotten that I had her too! I believe Damaris was 2017's Duskwarden mini.

 

Bobby Jackson already made her both fierce and a babe, so now I just gotta make her a pirate!

My list:

• Add a very fine pirate hat
• Change her crossbow to a flintlock pistol
• Change the stone ground to wooden planks
• Hopefully carve down the quiver on her hip so I can make it a tankard.

 

I'm actually pretty hesitant about the pirate hat because it would hide the hair - and hair that awesome is a sculpting goal. Seriously. Look at that tiny braid and all the locks of hair.

But my girl Maria spent a lot of money on a very fine hat after she ran away to become a pirate. So on goes the hat.

[kristof65]

Can't wait to see what you do with this.  I had to add her to my wishlist now. 

Do you really have to carve down the Quiver that much?  Seems to me you could file the bolt fletchings into more a cone shape, then use green stuff to make a beer stein lid and handle. 

 

 

[Chris Palmer]

The hat can always have been knocked off, and simply added as lying on the ground.  That will leave the hair pristine.  Or, put a sword handle on the scabbard, and have her hold the hat in her right hand.

 

 

Did you want to sculpt the hat or borrow it from an outside source?

 

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by Chris Palmer

[SisterMaryNapalm]

Awesome - keep going!

 

I am not sure if she needs a pirate hat. How about a bandana or so?

 

[kristof65]

Personally, I think the bottom right hat from 3202 would suit her - although she does look good without the hat, too:

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/03202/sku-down/03202

 

[Morihalda]

I also wanted to remake her arms so I could make everything sleeveless and show off her tattoos, but that might be going overboard....

 

46 minutes ago, kristof65 said:

Do you really have to carve down the Quiver that much?  Seems to me you could file the bolt fletchings into more a cone shape, then use green stuff to make a beer stein lid and handle. 

I didn't really want to have a lid, as there's a specific tankard I wanted to use. And that hat you linked - that's exactly what I had in mind, haha! I wanted to go the fancy fantasy route. :)

 

44 minutes ago, Chris Palmer said:

The hat can always have been knocked off, and simply added as lying on the ground.  That will leave the hair pristine.  Or, put a sword handle on the scabbard, and have her hold the hat in her right hand

 

Did you want to sculpt the hat or borrow it from an outside source?

I'll be sculpting it all myself. I was going to put her in my sculpting thread, but I decided since I was going to paint her too, it would be better to do it all in one thread here.

 

I used a quick FIMO pancake and honestly I think a hat set at a very jaunty angle would still show quite a bit of hair. These are 3 different hat spots.

 

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by Morihalda

[Loim]

Hats are srs bsns.

[Morihalda]

This is going to progress much faster than I anticipated! I expected to have to redo the hand, maybe the arms if I were going to make her sleeveless, try something crazy for the tankard....

 

I won't have to do any of those things. I dove in with some clippers and I was able to remove the bottom third of the quiver, mostly smooth out the top part of it, remove all but the center of crossbow, and flatten out the stone a bit. I can tilt the hand slightly and rebuild the thumb and forefinger when I sculpt the pistol.

 

Tomorrow I will sculpt the things! From the hat angles from the previous post, which do y'all think fits best? Should I take them again in full body poses, to see how it affects the mini overall?

[Humansquish]

I liked the third hat position best.

[Glitterwolf]

I like the idea of holding the hat in her hand.

Aside that, I would go for option 3 as well.

 

*** Great another female pirate mini I need to buy***

[aku-chan]

Another vote for option 3.

[TheMandolin]

Option 3 for sure!

[Cyradis]

I vote for the 1st hat position. Is that the full size of the hat? Fancy British hats may be pinned to the top of a crazy hair-do, but most hats, including pirate hats, would sit around the crown of the head - on a person, perhaps ~1/2 - 1in over the eyebrows, ~1/2 in over the ears, and then around the widest part of the back of the head (roughly). Some folks wear their hats a bit further back, but that wasn't for pirate hats as much as fedoras.

 

She's going to be seeing some wind, so having more areas to have friction on her head will be good for holding the hat in place! The jaunty angle, whichever you pick, will be awesome. Pirates need the jaunty angles! Even moreso for pirate lasses - lasses get to have asymmetry fun! 

[Morihalda]

@Cyradis oooh, another combo breaker! :) All good points. Yep, the hat will be larger and lower, but since the edges will curl up a bit and I'd need to grind down the hair a tad to sit better, I just went with a pancake for testing.

[Cyradis]

Mmmm pancakes. Now I want pancakes!!