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Title: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Uncle Mike on 08 December 2011, 04:47:40 PM
Just got word that customs has released our X-mas figure to our painter (finally...) and hopefully we will be able to show that off by the end of the week. We most likely will extend the bonus figure deal 'till the end of January once you can all see what the surprise is...
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: D@rth J@ymZ on 08 December 2011, 10:04:14 PM
it had better not be fruitcake... >:( ::)
can't wait to see it...
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: LidlessEye on 08 December 2011, 11:05:45 PM
Actually, someone really should investigate casting figures out of unwanted fruitcake.  There's certainly plenty of it about.

Finishing touches are just being put on the model now, so it should be posted tomorrow at the latest.
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: jnr on 08 December 2011, 11:58:18 PM
I love fruit cakes.
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: LidlessEye on 09 December 2011, 04:15:40 PM
You like fruit cakes, do you?  Here's one dressed in a red suit, with an axe!  :D

(http://www.strange-aeons.ca/img/mini/holiday_2011.jpg)

Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: necrocannibal on 09 December 2011, 04:23:14 PM
Very nice Psycho Santa...reminds me of the first Tales From the Crypt episode.
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Uncle Mike on 09 December 2011, 05:21:31 PM
Well spotted Necrocannibal, that is one of my favorite X-mas shows...and for sure was an 'inspiration' for this figure. One of Kyla's best IMHO. Merry ho-ho everyone!
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: fairoaks024 on 09 December 2011, 06:39:59 PM
what a superb figure, and a stunning paint job to go with it, well worth the wait Uncle Mike!

regards

jim
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: constrict on 09 December 2011, 06:58:57 PM
Nice one! Really love crazy santa stuff!
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Commander Vyper on 09 December 2011, 07:29:29 PM
Why the one white glove and the other hand flesh, not St Michael of Jackson is he?

EEEEEEEEEEEHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHHAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOO!

;)
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: necrocannibal on 10 December 2011, 11:28:18 AM
Quote from: Uncle Mike on 09 December 2011, 05:21:31 PM
Well spotted Necrocannibal, that is one of my favorite X-mas shows...and for sure was an 'inspiration' for this figure. One of Kyla's best IMHO. Merry ho-ho everyone!

I love the "And all through the house" episode. The sculpts keep getting better and better, I'm not a big fan of the older models, but the newer ones are really good (I really like the Mad Scientist). This Psycho Santa, makes me wat to buy something.
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Anatoli on 10 December 2011, 02:16:12 PM
God damn, that looks both hilarious and super evil at the same time  :-*

Is the painter EinarOlofson? Looks like his basing style, and the painting sure is up to his standards  :-*
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Uncle Mike on 10 December 2011, 03:55:29 PM
He is indeed our painter...a wonderful job...but I fear for the mans sanity!
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: mdomino on 11 December 2011, 03:05:25 PM
What is the bonus figure deal?
Mike D
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Uncle Mike on 11 December 2011, 03:44:50 PM
As simple as possible for everyone. You order anything and I toss in a Maniac Santa with your order!
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Cultist #3 on 11 December 2011, 08:49:43 PM
Quote from: Uncle Mike on 11 December 2011, 03:44:50 PM
As simple as possible for everyone. You order anything and I toss in a Maniac Santa with your order!

Again, you guys rock, I don't care what that other guy says.  :D
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Uncle Mike on 15 December 2011, 06:36:22 PM
Got mine painted up and ready for some fun this evening!  :P
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: pierrebi on 16 December 2011, 05:31:12 AM
Saint Nicholas is a 4th-century saint, he was Bishop of Myra in Lycia, (modern day Turkey). He was very generous person, and continues to be in fact, every year "offers" a lot of money to those who use his name calling him Santa Clause and forgetting he was a Bishop and a Saint who is revered by so many people ...

(http://www.parrocchiaperito.it/images/bari-triptych-lg.jpg)

(http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/images/RR2_P22.jpg)
Miniatures by Irregulars
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Uncle Mike on 16 December 2011, 02:05:37 PM
Not in our game. Ours is a maladjusted maniac...who only dresses like that guy...kinda.  ;)
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Plynkes on 16 December 2011, 02:20:06 PM
In England we have (or used to have) Father Christmas, who was nothing to do with Saint Nicholas or the American "Santa", and only became confused with him in the 20th Century when they started dressing like each other.

He's really fucking WODEN!!!* in disguise.


*Woden is a word you have to shout as if you were Brian Blessed. Any other way is not pronouncing it correctly.
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Steve F on 16 December 2011, 03:04:52 PM
Quote from: Plynkes on 16 December 2011, 02:20:06 PM
In England we have (or used to have) Father Christmas, who was nothing to do with Saint Nicholas or the American "Santa", and only became confused with him in the 20th Century when they started dressing like each other.

He's really fucking WODEN!!!* in disguise.


According to Ronald Hutton (in The Stations of the Sun and The Rise and Fall of Merrie England), there is no evidence of any personification of Christmas in England before the 17th century.  The idea that Father Christmas is pagan is a post-Golden Bough fantasy.  My guess is that he was invented as a mouthpiece for opposition to puritan anti-Christmas arguments.  That's certainly how Ben Jonson used him in Christmas His Masque in 1618.

Still separate from Santa Claus, though (who was never a Siberian shaman - that's a 1970s hippie-drivel fantasy), until the late 19th century, when he suddenly started climbing down chimneys and delivering presents.
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Plynkes on 16 December 2011, 03:10:52 PM
Fantasy, eh? Oh well, never mind. I rather like fantasy.  :)
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: blackstone on 16 December 2011, 04:08:23 PM
That's a great sculpt! The pose and the expression on the face are spot on :)
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: LidlessEye on 16 December 2011, 06:07:51 PM
How about the expression on his poor victim's face?  :o

(http://www.strange-aeons.ca/img/mini/xmas-maniac.jpg)

Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: necrocannibal on 16 December 2011, 06:16:55 PM
Damn...that makes me want to have it even more!
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Argonor on 16 December 2011, 10:32:50 PM
Satan Claws strikes again.....  lol
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: D@rth J@ymZ on 21 December 2011, 05:42:28 AM
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/9/1548_21_12_11_6_38_42.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/9/1548_21_12_11_6_38_01.jpg)

This was a great holiday model to paint up.  So much character... :)
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: fairoaks024 on 21 December 2011, 09:20:44 AM
nice work J@ymz,

I like the intensity of the red on the costume and the blood patches
on the snow.

You captured the mad gleam in his eyes too.

regards

jim
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Krysset80 on 21 December 2011, 07:52:36 PM
For some reson it reminds me of that movie with a drunk Dan Aykroyd in a santa outfit...
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Uncle Mike on 22 December 2011, 02:48:40 AM
Now, if only there were some free holiday scenario where I could use Maniac Santa to his full potential...if only...
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: LidlessEye on 22 December 2011, 05:58:55 AM
You mean something like this?  ;)

http://www.strange-aeons.ca/doc/SA_Nightmare.pdf (http://www.strange-aeons.ca/doc/SA_Nightmare.pdf)
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Argonor on 22 December 2011, 01:03:34 PM
Hmmm....

 :)
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Uncle Mike on 22 December 2011, 03:35:08 PM
That's the stuff!!! Merry Ho-Ho to all!
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: Anatoli on 22 December 2011, 03:41:07 PM
Haha that is an awesome piece of rules  lol
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: The Breaker on 09 January 2012, 10:34:18 AM
How much is Santa?
Title: Re: X-mas Figure...?
Post by: LidlessEye on 09 January 2012, 04:21:06 PM
Free with any order through our website until the end of the month!