Thunderbolt Mountain/Ral Partha Legacy Ballerina Fairies by Tom Meier

[72moonglum]

Hello all you reaperlaiset! 

 

So since the beginning of the year, I've been working on a little project to get all of these Thunderbolt Mountain fairies painted.  It's actually taken extra long because I painted two sets of these, and the duplicates were all the same colors, but it logically takes twice as long.  It was hard to decide on colors for these guys, but I did want to do a unique skin color for each one and a unique leotard color as well for each one.  I ended up doing the tutus the same color because I I would have done each one a different color, it would have take so much longer and as they are kind of a unit, I wanted something that would kind of bring them together.  These all belong to a set of Ballerina Fairies, sculpted by Tom Meier, inspired by an idea from his daughter.  They were originally from his company Thunderbolt Mountain, and are now available again through Ral Partha Legacy.  There's six of them so lots of photos to follow:

 

 

and here they are together:

 

 

So these are some pretty small figures, and I'm going to eventually put them on some simple bases.  I wouldn't almost mind leaving them like this, but I don't want them to tip over too easily.  I might work on the bases this weekend.  So anyhoos, enjoy!  I had quite a lot of fun painting these.  They are very delicate and detailed figures, but didn't take too long to really paint ultimately because they aren't overly laden with all those dingly danglies you find on lots of more modern figures. I've got a few more of these to do with some Pegasi, will do those some day in the not too far-flung future.  

 

 

[Inarah]

Nicely done, you really brought out the personality in each one. 

 

[72moonglum]

4 minutes ago, Inarah said:

Nicely done, you really brought out the personality in each one. 

 

Thank you Inarah, I wanted them each to be individuals, not to look exactly like one another. 

[Glitterwolf]

They look great, I like how you used different skintones and colours for the clothing.

 

I do not trust them though, those wandguns look a bit deadly.

[Mystikant]

Upeaa työtä! 

I like the colors, the eyes are amazing also.

Are they as small as other minis from Thunderbolt's range?

[72moonglum]

4 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

They look great, I like how you used different skintones and colours for the clothing.

 

I do not trust them though, those wandguns look a bit deadly.

Thanks Glitterwolf!  The instinct starts, in order to get them done quickly, was to paint them all the same color, same clothing and skin tones, but then my stubborn side came out and wanted them to have a bit of variety.   Took a lot longer, and like I said above, I gave up with their tutus, because I wanted to finish sooner than later, and to kind of give them some kind of uniform aspect.

 

I'm sure the wands just shoot pure happiness!

1 hour ago, Mystikant said:

Upeaa työtä! 

I like the colors, the eyes are amazing also.

Are they as small as other minis from Thunderbolt's range?

Kiitoksia, mä olen onnellinen, että sä tykkäät niistä!

 

Yeah, they are pretty small miniatures.  They are basically child-sized versions of Tom's stuff, even though they might be child-sized against a 30 mm figure and not a 25 mm figure.  I'll have to take another shot with some objects to compare for size reference.  They are pretty petite!

[Mystikant]

I've got a few of Tom's elves and they are tiny. Even more stunning work on such a small canvas.

 

A bit odd to see some Finnish here, but mukavaa viikkoa! 

[Thoramel]

These are absolutely great. I saw these on the legacy site recently and was on the fence about getting them, but I think your paint jobs are pushing me towards putting them in the cart. Thanks!

 

Just out of curiosity, will you be painting the flying unicorns to go with them?

[72moonglum]

2 hours ago, Mystikant said:

I've got a few of Tom's elves and they are tiny. Even more stunning work on such a small canvas.

 

A bit odd to see some Finnish here, but mukavaa viikkoa! 

Yeah, the hardest thing with Tom's figures are the eyes, which are often so extremely small!

 

Maailma on täynnä ihmeitä näin, asuin siellä Suomessa yli 30 vuotta sitten ja kieli on aina ihastuttanut minua!

1 hour ago, Thoramel said:

These are absolutely great. I saw these on the legacy site recently and was on the fence about getting them, but I think your paint jobs are pushing me towards putting them in the cart. Thanks!

 

Just out of curiosity, will you be painting the flying unicorns to go with them?

Don't hesitate, you only live once, put them in your cart!  These pictures are showing up now there for a little bit of color!

 

I've got both the flying unicorns and am planning on doing them soon.  I'm going to take a small fairy break, paint up a few Parthas, and then am going to come back to them, hopefully in a month or two.

[odinsgrandson]

I love those fairy girls. I'm so glad that I was able to get a set of them before Thunderbolt Mountain stopped making them. But I didn't get any of the unicorn pegasus ones.

Part of me kind of hopes that Dark Sword takes them up as a sort of legacy line.

[72moonglum]

33 minutes ago, odinsgrandson said:

I love those fairy girls. I'm so glad that I was able to get a set of them before Thunderbolt Mountain stopped making them. But I didn't get any of the unicorn pegasus ones.

Part of me kind of hopes that Dark Sword takes them up as a sort of legacy line.

I saw the set you painted and they are really beautiful, you did a wonderful job on them! 

So Dark Sword doesn't have them but Ral Partha Legacy has begun selling them as well as other figures from Thunderbolt Miniatures.

[ferret]

Yes, a great job.  I especially liked the eyes.  It took a lot of skill to do those eyelids, but they really add a lot to the look of their faces.

[72moonglum]

5 hours ago, ferret said:

Yes, a great job.  I especially liked the eyes.  It took a lot of skill to do those eyelids, but they really add a lot to the look of their faces.

Glad you like them! It’s all part of that same process. I figure if the eyes and faces turn out okay, the rest will more or less follow

Edited January 28, 2021 by 72moonglum

[odinsgrandson]

4 hours ago, ferret said:

Yes, a great job.  I especially liked the eyes.  It took a lot of skill to do those eyelids, but they really add a lot to the look of their faces.

 

Yeah, I've painted these minis before, and those are some extremely tiny faces. They look great.

[72moonglum]

18 minutes ago, odinsgrandson said:

 

Yeah, I've painted these minis before, and those are some extremely tiny faces. They look great.

Thank you much Odinsgrandson! I have to say that the good thing about these faces, even though they are small, at least they are easy to get to, they don't have weapons in the way obstructing your paint brush or anything like that, so that at least helped.