Merry Christmas everybody! Here are some of Santa's Helpers!

[72moonglum]

Hello everybody from the South all the way up to the North Pole!

 

So last year I had painted for my mom a Santa Claus, from a set of the plastic miniatures you find in hardware stores that go with the little sets of holiday houses. They are usually some pretty  neat little figures but can use a little bit of love and attention, as they are speed painted in China without much detail.  Well, with the original set of figures I had from last year, there were also three elves that I just didn't have time to work on, so I thought I'd do them this year and ended up finishing them yesterday. They are probably somewhere between two and three inches tall.

 

 

and here they are individually:

 

With this guy, I tried to actually make a list on his clipboard, but couldn't get too small, ended up with the first two letters of my mom and dad, Bernice and Glenn:

 

and this next little guy, used that same idea and put their initials not he music box lid:

 

 

and with this little guy, no real freehand, just an elf and a teddy bear:

 

 

Fun figures and pretty large, without so much crazy detail.  For the most part I actually used the original color schemes that were pre-painted on these elves, which in all reality made life a little more simple so I didn't have to work so much to choose colors.

 

Anyways, hope you all enjoy!  Merry Christmas to everybody and may Santa be kind to you all and bring you lots of Reaper miniatures and paints!

 

Mark

Edited December 23, 2021 by 72moonglum

[Evilhalfling]

those are very cool figures. and nice work. 

[72moonglum]

9 minutes ago, Evilhalfling said:

those are very cool figures. and nice work. 

Thanks very much Evil Halfling, I got them in an after Christmas sale for a few dollars.  I wish I had some kind of idea who the sculptor might have been, but I'm sure he's lost in obscurity......

[Darcstaar]

Sweet!

 

[72moonglum]

3 minutes ago, Darcstaar said:

Sweet!

 

Thank you much Darcstaar!

[Iridil]

Nice work - grand christmas improvement - wonderful colors

[72moonglum]

4 hours ago, Iridil said:

Nice work - grand christmas improvement - wonderful colors

Thanks Iridil and Merry Christmas to you!

[Glitterwolf]

[72moonglum]

5 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Thank you Mr. Wolf!

[SotF]

18 hours ago, 72moonglum said:

Thanks very much Evil Halfling, I got them in an after Christmas sale for a few dollars.  I wish I had some kind of idea who the sculptor might have been, but I'm sure he's lost in obscurity......

Yeah, so many of the various christmas village minis out there are well sculpted, but poorly painted. I've been working through several of the ones from the Dollar Tree that are great sculpts...just not cleaned up and with paint just globbed on. A strip and repaint and they're great things to see.

 

Good work with them

[Chaoswolf]

Great work on improving the paint jobs on them, they'll make some very nice gifts!

Merry Christmas!

[72moonglum]

On 12/23/2021 at 3:59 PM, SotF said:

Yeah, so many of the various christmas village minis out there are well sculpted, but poorly painted. I've been working through several of the ones from the Dollar Tree that are great sculpts...just not cleaned up and with paint just globbed on. A strip and repaint and they're great things to see.

 

Good work with them

Thanks very much SotF!

 

yeah, the Christmas Village minis are actually pretty cute after you scrape off or paint over their 30 second paint job. here is the original version of one of the minis. I forgot to take pictures of the other ones this time

 

He has a little bit of primer on him, but you can see how he started out. 

On 12/23/2021 at 8:01 PM, Chaoswolf said:

Great work on improving the paint jobs on them, they'll make some very nice gifts!

Merry Christmas!

Thank you Chaoswolf, you can see in my post to SotF how one of them was pre-new paint job!

[Rigel]

Fantastic refurbishing and repainting!

[72moonglum]

13 hours ago, Rigel said:

Fantastic refurbishing and repainting!

Thank you Rigel, really appreciate it!

[Gantrell]

WOW! So clean. Beautiful. Great colors.