Dr. Moreau, New, Loup de Guerre!

[Governor General]

H.G. Wells' Dr. Moreau. The mini is a Reaper Bones Alchemist, about 32mm. The sculpts costume reminded me of a cross between bomb disposal and attack dog training armor. Loads of detail. The second pic shows the Doctor with one of his experiments. It's a WestWind cat by blow (their description) that I painted as a were jaguar a couple of years ago. The needle of his syringe has never straightened. I tried various means but it always goes back to curved.

[The_Beast]

Properly scary dude!

The curved needle is required to pass around some bones to get to the proper glands with out mortal injury. 

Is that a BattleMasters castle in the background?

Doug

[Governor General]

Indeed it is Doug! I've acquired several over the years. Here are some better pics of the cat.

[The_Beast]

Not to eat Flesh or Fish; that is the Law. Are we not Men?

We are Devo! D E V O!

Doug

[Governor General]

Orangutan de Guerre! Dr. Moreau's project for the French Government. The figure is a Reaper Bones Ape X. It was a lot of fun to paint. The miniature is very large, 54mm, you can see in the last pic it's next to a 32mm Reaper fig for scale.

[Governor General]

A local hobby shop started carrying Reaper Bones figures. It was the first time I saw them in person and I thought the price vs quality trade off was acceptable. I ordered several more Bones minis through the shop. This is how Ape X arrived. They had not put enough plastic in the mold to complete the mini. I don't know if this was a one off or if it's a bigger issue. Because I ordered it through the shop it took awhile to get here. I was disappointed but in the end decided I could live with it. Just a heads up to you sirs and madams in case your thinking about ordering from the Bones line.

[The_Beast]

Our store have had a fair number of returns, though I'm surprised at that. We're usually seeing a limb or other loose part missing, or 'two left feet'.

I'm not aware of mis-casts, though I'll ask the manager.

Doug

[Governor General]

Loup de Guerre! Dr. Moreau's latest masterpiece. The totally repainted plastic mini is from the late great HeroScape. I was lucky enough to find a complete game with a lot of supplemental figures at a thrift store several years ago. In my vaguely thought out VSF world Dr. Moreau works for France developing biomechanical weapons to counter the threat of Germany's automata and England's retro-engineered Martian tech.