Ripper Street Series 2

[Van-Helsing]

But there are none to choose from at all. Look a how many different Vampire/Frankenstein/Werewolf figures there are!

When did you first hear about Spring Heeled Jack?

[psyberwyche]

Can anyone recommend a good mini for the American from Ripper Street (Captain Jackson)? I love the Men of Hell Division set for Empire of the Dead, but the 'Not-Jackson' just doesn't look right. Reid and Drake are great though.

[Brummie Thug]

When did you first hear about Spring Heeled Jack?

Only recently. But considering how long he has been about you'd of though somebody would of done it considering the big interest for steampunk, gothic horror etc, VSF

[Booboo]

When did you first hear about Spring Heeled Jack?

For me, as an American, I only heard about him about a year ago when I researching architecture and period pop culture to design my Olde Towne terrain (and come up with conversion ideas for EotD) and in doing so discovered, pursued, and devoured Penny Dreadfuls and other folklore sources.  So my first image of SPJ is certainly the last one you posted, the one that looks like he's wearing a baseball uniform and could be the mascot.

Here's another pic, though this is similar to devilish depiction






and someting a bit more modern (not really to my liking though)

[H.M.Stanley]

I'd never heard of SHJ until this thread.

He sounds a bit of a card "....Jumping out on unsuspecting servant girls, kissing their faces and tearing at their clothes with cold-clammy claws"

Sounds like your typical Freshers Ball

[psyberwyche]

In case of it's of interest, the BBc website has some rather good Ripper Street resources that are quite handy for painting and modelling:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03fvc1c/galleries
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03fvc1c/profiles/characters

And here's that Captain Jackson I was asking after - maybe I'll need to do a headswap on another figure, but I can't quite find the perfect match:

[Booboo]

I'd never heard of SHJ until this thread.

He sounds a bit of a card "....Jumping out on unsuspecting servant girls, kissing their faces and tearing at their clothes with cold-clammy claws"

Sounds like your typical Freshers Ball

Not as strange as the piquerists known as the London Monster or Whipping Tom(s) (the so-called 'enemy of Milk-wenches Bums') .

[Brummie Thug]

And here's that Captain Jackson I was asking after - maybe I'll need to do a headswap on another figure, but I can't quite find the perfect match:

I can only think of trawling various wildwest ranges.

What about the guy on the left from this set? perhaps file down the hat/Moustache and add a little goatee either with paint or greenstuff

http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1026

[psyberwyche]

That's a good call. there's also the 'not' Al Swearignen: http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1027

[Brummie Thug]

Thats a very good one as well. Just perhaps putty on a hat.

[Van-Helsing]

Only recently. But considering how long he has been about you'd of though somebody would of done it considering the big interest for steampunk, gothic horror etc, VSF

Kinda my point he's NOT a commonly known legend, THATS why there are not miniatures out there (yet).

When something becomes more publicly known - thats when we see them turning up in other media.

How many people know about the other Halloween for example

[Brummie Thug]

I get what your saying. Which is why I said I can't believe nobody has done a model of him yet!

[Van-Helsing]

I get what your saying. Which is why I said I can't believe nobody has done a model of him yet!

Because so few people are aware of him

[psyberwyche]

I think Spring-heeled Jack is slightly better known than Van Helsing gives him credit for. I heard about him in school, and I'm not even from London. Although I've always been a Victorian history geek, so I guess it depends on what circles you move in :-)

There are lots of very obscure miniatures out there - Spring-heeled Jack would sell no more or less than some of the weirder parts of a company's range, and there are definitely a few people asking about it - just type it into the search bar on this very forum. This is my favourite: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=39595.0

Anyway, back to Ripper Street - I've ordered the 'not-Swearigen' from Artizan today, and I've located a suitable hat from the lead pile (what's that type of hat called, anyway?). Captain Jackson will soon be stalking the streets of miniature-Whitechapel!

[Lowtardog]

I think Spring-heeled Jack is slightly better known than Van Helsing gives him credit for. I heard about him in school, and I'm not even from London. Although I've always been a Victorian history geek, so I guess it depends on what circles you move in :-)

There are lots of very obscure miniatures out there - Spring-heeled Jack would sell no more or less than some of the weirder parts of a company's range, and there are definitely a few people asking about it - just type it into the search bar on this very forum. This is my favourite: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=39595.0

Anyway, back to Ripper Street - I've ordered the 'not-Swearigen' from Artizan today, and I've located a suitable hat from the lead pile (what's that type of hat called, anyway?). Captain Jackson will soon be stalking the streets of miniature-Whitechapel!

I may be wrong but think it could be a Homburg