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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: HGB Paul on November 21, 2016, 07:31:49 PM

Title: Polar Exploration
Post by: HGB Paul on November 21, 2016, 07:31:49 PM
Thought I'd show some pics of my newly painted Polar Bears. They come from Fenris Games.
Took a lot of trial and error to get the photo's to look anything like the paint jobs

(https://s5.postimg.org/k8z6nq3yf/Polar_Bears_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Polar Exploration
Post by: Hammers on November 21, 2016, 07:51:53 PM
Thought I'd show some pics of my newly painted Polar Bears. They come from Fenris Games.
Took a lot of trial and error to get the photo's to look anything like the paint jobs

(https://s5.postimg.org/k8z6nq3yf/Polar_Bears_2.jpg)

Those are nice. Fenris, you say?
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Post by: Mason on November 21, 2016, 08:08:21 PM
Great brushwork on some really nice sculpts.
Nice basing too.
 :-* :-*

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Post by: Marine0846 on November 21, 2016, 08:55:41 PM
Your bears are great.
Love them.
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Post by: tin shed gamer on November 21, 2016, 09:03:53 PM
The Whites your achived both on the polar bears and your other thread are very emotive.I for one will be looking out for more of your work.
Mark.
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Post by: Malamute on November 21, 2016, 09:43:42 PM
Excellent, really lovely brushwork, you've captured the look perfectly. :-*
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Post by: War In 15MM on November 21, 2016, 10:02:49 PM
Great looking stuff.  I hope the exploration will continue.
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Post by: Jeff965 on November 21, 2016, 10:26:21 PM
Love em, nice clean style :-*
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Post by: marianas_gamer on November 22, 2016, 07:07:50 AM
Very nice brushwork on some great bear sculpts  :-* :-* More please.
LB
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Post by: Hu Rhu on November 22, 2016, 05:58:45 PM
That is lovely painting.  I shall use those as inspiration when I get round to painting my polar bear for Ice Station Zebra.
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Post by: philhendry on November 22, 2016, 06:21:02 PM
WOW!!!

Great painting - really well observed and realised colours and details.
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Post by: wulfgar22 on November 22, 2016, 06:27:53 PM
Brilliant!  :-*
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Post by: Argonor on November 24, 2016, 01:13:54 AM
Very nice 'dirty white' on those. Nice minis, too, shame I didn't know about them when putting in an order with Fenris just the other day...
Title: Re: Polar Exploration
Post by: FifteensAway on November 24, 2016, 07:17:41 AM
I echo the course about the quality of the paint jobs.  But both bears do seem to have an insubstantial contact with the ground.  If you built the snow on the bases it would be possible to fix that just by adding more snow.
Title: Re: Polar Exploration
Post by: dinohunterpoa on November 24, 2016, 10:46:03 AM
HGB Paul, strictly speaking those bears are not anatomically correct as polar bears, but your painting is just superb, CONGRATULATIONS!  

And FifteensAway is right on them being "floating" over the snow... Bears are heavy animals, and should touch the ground as such.

(the Copplestone one is a "real" polar bear, BTW... I suggest you to add one of two of them to your polar family! ;) )

Title: Re: Polar Exploration
Post by: Codsticker on November 24, 2016, 04:03:40 PM
(the Copplestone one is a "real" polar bear, BTW... I suggest you to add one of two of them to your polar family! ;) )
That's funny... I didn't think that at all; I thought it's face was more grizzly than polar and a head a little disproportionate..
Title: Re: Polar Exploration
Post by: tin shed gamer on November 24, 2016, 04:32:28 PM
Its difficult to define what a polar bear should look like as they can vary Their body weight by upto 50% in a year.
So it's more a case of what stage of the year is the one you personally use to seeing .
Which helps define you ideal look for a polar bear figure.
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Post by: Driscoles on November 24, 2016, 04:44:10 PM
They look great !!
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Post by: macsparty on November 28, 2016, 07:42:14 PM
Those look great! I think polar has been an underrepresented area for gaming. I've started some pulp minis for it. One of these days I'll kick that project back to the front of the line!
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Post by: gorillacrab on December 19, 2016, 05:24:17 PM
The bear look great - I'm just wondering what rule set/game you are planning to use them for?
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Post by: SteveBurt on December 20, 2016, 10:21:48 AM
The bears and the bases are terrific - but wouldn't it be better to paint the base edges white so they don't stand out so much?
These are going to look odd on snow terrain with that black ring round them.
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Post by: Dr. The Viking on December 23, 2016, 08:11:49 AM
Amazing! I really think you hit the tone absolutely right.
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Post by: MaleGriffin on December 23, 2016, 07:47:04 PM
They look true to the real polar bears! Superb!
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Post by: SotF on December 24, 2016, 12:54:02 AM
Nice bears, but with snow flocking, it works best to put the snow on after you attach the mini to the base