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Title: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Schogun on 12 September 2010, 09:29:32 PM
As seen in the first picture on Paul Darnell's Touching History blog:
http://www.touchinghistory.blogspot.com/

I remember seeing it before, but cannot remember who makes it.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Calimero on 12 September 2010, 09:32:03 PM
Could that be the one from Eureka?

http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_153_162&products_id=1936
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: fastolfrus on 12 September 2010, 09:33:20 PM
Is it Eureka ?
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Hammers on 12 September 2010, 09:34:31 PM
No, it is not Eureka's Miss Fondelwell, if it is her you are thinking of.

I am thinking it is a conversion. It looks Copplestonish to me. Is it Foundry's Jane with the bikini top off?
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: argsilverson on 12 September 2010, 09:43:46 PM
In fact it is not an eureka's miniature.

I think that she is some reaper miniature!
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Captain Blood on 12 September 2010, 09:48:30 PM
I didn't realize Paul Darnell was back in business. That's a jolly nice site. Well worth a browse (but no, I don't know who makes the bathing belle - although I agree the face is copplestone-ish... )
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Froggy the Great on 12 September 2010, 10:05:06 PM
I'm 95% sure it's not a Reaper figure.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Schogun on 13 September 2010, 01:34:13 AM
You're right -- looking at her now, she does look like a Copplestone figure.

However, the Eureka figure could be very easily converted. Simply cut down the metal bathtub edges (and more if necessary), put her into a wooden tub, then fill with clear resin with appropriately placed bubbles/ripples.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: warrenpeace on 13 September 2010, 04:21:11 AM
That looks like a conversion of the Wargames Illustrated magazine special offer Lady Godiva figure to me.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Hammers on 13 September 2010, 06:12:03 AM
Phondelwell has a quite different pose:

(http://www.fighting15sshop.co.uk/ekmps/shops/fighting15s/images/paxp14_colour_600x.jpg)
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Mad Doc Morris on 13 September 2010, 07:16:55 AM
Like warrenbruhn suggested, it's a conversion from Lady Godiva on horseback, a promo figure by Wargames Illustrated. There was also a clad version sculpted by Soapy of Gripping Beast fame.

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/B6s0ZBmkKGrHqUOKiUEwSBdNPwBMPg21Fglw_12.jpg)

Both seem to be still available at North Star (LINK (http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=2046)).
However, for a bathing female I would definitely go with the one posted by Hammers. :P
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Heldrak on 13 September 2010, 01:25:45 PM
There is also the "Bathtime For Bubbles" vignette from Crocodile games (although Bubbles is a bit elfy...):

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/Forum%20Saves/bubbles.jpg)

https://www.crocodilegames.com/store/itemDetail.cfm?prodID=469&catID=46

Bubbles also available separately from her tub.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Arthadan on 13 September 2010, 03:19:55 PM
I can't see the pic you're refering to in the blog, but I think it may be this one:

(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/miniatures/images/reviews/the-bath.jpg)

If it's this one, it's from Andrea Miniatures and is discontinued.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Schogun on 13 September 2010, 04:45:45 PM
More choices than I thought!

I've ordered the Eureka fig. I can convert it easily and I like her pose the best.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Schogun on 17 September 2010, 01:08:27 PM
I received the Eureka girl yesterday. A marvelous sculpt! Nice that she is separate from the tub.

Problem is...she's quite tiny. Very tiny compared to "regular" 28mm figures.

Maybe she's just a small, thin woman or teenage girl, but her size is still not registering well with me.

Not sure if I'll use her in my game now.   :(
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Calimero on 17 September 2010, 01:13:25 PM
Not sure if I'll use her in my game now.   :(

Sometime I find that figures that look a little too small (or a little too big) compare to other figures in my collection look just fine once painted… maybe you should give it a try
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Poiter50 on 17 September 2010, 01:18:44 PM
Bathtime for Bubbles is perhaps a bit small and a bit modern but by removing some of the accessories or mixing and matching with Eurekas Ophelia, you can create a nice vignette. I would like to see the women in the tub with handmaiden pouring water from a ewer produced again.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Schogun on 19 September 2010, 12:53:15 AM
She works just fine after all.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5002822664_7acf955994.jpg)


The Predicament:

Colonel Depardieu doesn't quite know what to do with Mademoiselle Boulon.
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: marianas_gamer on 19 September 2010, 01:00:30 AM
Love the scene.  I am sure that Colonel Depardieu will come up with a solution  lol lol
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Calimero on 19 September 2010, 01:39:36 AM
Told you that once painted… ;)

Very nice paintjob 8) I’m curious about the tub though… is it scratch build?
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Schogun on 19 September 2010, 03:28:59 AM
The tub is from a Bayardi pack -- M54/13 Wooden Tubs & Bucket (1/32).
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Poiter50 on 19 September 2010, 04:04:50 AM
Bayardi? Link? Not a manufacturer/brand that I am familiar with?
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Schogun on 19 September 2010, 03:19:17 PM
Armand P. Bayardi is a US company, makers of terrain items for dioramas.

From another post: "The quality of his work is unsurpassed, as far as I have seen. He was a jeweler in the past, and it shows in the detail he puts into his work. In addition, he is one of the best resin casters working anywhere today."

I can concur.

There is no mailing address or website shown on the product tag. Can't find a Bayardi website either, but there are many links to US retailers who stock it. Don't know about UK/Europe stockists.

Not much help. Sorry.

Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Michi on 08 October 2010, 04:36:08 PM
Bubbles and an Hasslefree conversion...

(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll111/wamasaka/Rome/MiniaturenfotosOriginale407.jpg)

(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll111/wamasaka/Rome/MiniaturenfotosOriginale423.jpg)

(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll111/wamasaka/Rome/MiniaturenfotosOriginale430.jpg)

...plus my tribute to the Phlondlewell twins:

(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll111/wamasaka/Rome/MiniaturenfotosOriginale434.jpg)

(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll111/wamasaka/Rome/MiniaturenfotosOriginale409.jpg)

(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll111/wamasaka/Rome/MiniaturenfotosOriginale416.jpg)
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Poiter50 on 09 October 2010, 01:19:29 AM
Oh, very nice, I sense some sort of theme?
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Silent Invader on 09 October 2010, 02:29:59 PM
Crikey.    :o   More soapy godessness......  :-*
Title: Re: Identify figure -- girl bathing in tub
Post by: Chairface on 09 October 2010, 02:32:33 PM
Outstanding! Beautiful paint jobs!