Looking for a babushka figure?

[FramFramson]

I'm trying to find an Eastern-european style babushka figure (basically a classic little old lady in a shawl) and not having much luck.  





I've tried looking at witches, but most of those are sculpted so cartoonishly that they're almost goblins (like the Reaper Baba Yaga or the WestWind trio), or else have elaborate witch outfits that would be difficult to convert. I even tried looking at Ratnik's dwarven women, since they have perfect faces for this sort of thing, but they're quite a bit too armed and armoured.

I need something a little more ordinary-looking, maybe a civilian from somewhere or other. In a perfect world she'd have a bit more of a modern coat and big army boots too. A poor Siberan babushka, nothing that would outwardly suggest any sort of magical powers...

Maybe some WWI or WWII Russian civilians? Maybe even from a railroad manufacturer? I don't know. Any suggestions would be good!

[Mason]

What about the Mad Cat Lady from BCB:

http://blackcatbases.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=437_457&products_id=2169

[FramFramson]

You know what's funny?

Reaper has a crazy cat lady too - and I already have plans to use her for a different character. 

I quite like the face on that one, but it would be a very heavy conversion to cut away all the cats. Maybe if I absolutely can't find anything else.

[Mason]

I quite like the face on that one, but it would be a very heavy conversion to cut away all the cats. Maybe if I absolutely can't find anything else.

Getting rid of the cats would not be too difficult.
I would cut the figure along the bottom of the coat line and sculpt a simple, full-length dress reaching to the floor.
 

[Cory]

Babushkas are the easiest figure to sculpt there is. They are supposed to be rather lumpy and shapeless.

[pacarat]

Babushkas are the easiest figure to sculpt there is. They are supposed to be rather lumpy and shapeless.

Well, then... guess i've been an expert at sculpting babushkas for years now... 

[SBRPearce]

Hasslefree has a head-scarfed lady-of-a-certain age entitled "Madge". (Tho not, perhaps, so useful, since she's toting a break-action double-barreled shotgun. Which would hint to my players that she didn't have any supernatural abilities...)

[Glitzer]

Hasslefree has a head-scarfed lady-of-a-certain age entitled "Madge". (Tho not, perhaps, so useful, since she's toting a break-action double-barreled shotgun. Which would hint to my players that she didn't have any supernatural abilities...)

Is there a law that says witches are not allowed to wield shotguns?

[FramFramson]

A witch having a gun actually seems just fine if she's more of a "practical" kind of witch. I'm imagining a sort of Russian Granny Weatherwax here (too bad the actual Granny Weatherwax figure is way off from wearing anything babushka-like).

The real question is just how inappropriate would such a weapon be in Russia in 1935?  

[grant]

I'm trying to find an Eastern-european style babushka figure (basically a classic little old lady in a shawl) and not having much luck.  

That's my wife's baba! No, really - she looked very much like that! Lived in Swan River. Was from the Ukraine. Made mean perogies and cabbage rolls!

[grant]

https://www.google.ca/search?q=ukrainian+baba+yaga&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=XQ-UUpyCKMzzoATHnoLoCw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1256&bih=613

Baba Yaga is the witch you want!

[FramFramson]

There are a couple of Baba Yaga miniatures by a couple of companies, but like the stereotype witch figures they're pretty unusable for my purpose (which is deliberately an ordinary-looking woman).

[HerbyF]

What about one of the fine ladies from LAF's Witches of the Apocalypse?

[FramFramson]

They are also a possibility, albeit with some conversion.

Most of them are a bit, ah, ragged.