Oh what a morning!~
Thanks all 'round to one and all!
Absolutely fantastic mate, each one is a triumph
Was it normal glitter you used on the dress?
cheers
James
Yes, just regular glitter, a fine type (It's hard to say, but I think the flecks are squares maybe 0.2mm to 0.25mm on a side?).
Awesome bunch of fiugures, Fram, I love them all but I'm particularly very fond of the Indian version of Prof, bravo!:D
btw, is Prof Sockalingham a conversion?
Glad he turned out well! That was one of the very first Pulp figures I ever bought - he's so much fun!
The Prof is a hard plastic Cluedo figure (Professor Plum, I think), from I think the second or third edition of Cluedo, which comes with six such figures, of which I've painted three so far. The figures come up on ebay from time to time. The figures are all quite tall (35mm maybe a bit more), but I'm mixing in several different groups of larger figures (Dust tactics, Studio McVey, others), so they work as taller characters.
They're some of the nicest figures I've ever painted, in terms of how easy they are to paint. I wish I knew who the sculptor was!
WOW Fram!! What an update! !!
I don't know if it's been asked before, but where do the figs(or bits there of) come from?
Not yet, but I figured someone might!
The Aiyyars:
Amala Sockalingam - A girl from the Eureka Indian civilians set, converted to be wearing shoes and also very
carefully converted to smile (I did this very gradually by scraping a little of the lower face away, then slowly building layers back up with thick craft paint until I had a broad smile). I love Paul Hicks' sculpts to pieces (the drapery on the sari is magnificent), but his figures have a tendency look like they've just been told their entire family died.
Prof Sockalingam - As mentioned above, he's a Cluedo piece.
Princess Khan - The body is Statuesque's Minerva figure, and the head and hair are from a Reaper Dark Elf by Julie Guthrie.
Inspector Singham - Well, that's our prof, from LAF minis!
Colonel Malhotra - A Copplestone WWI British officer, with a headswap (and left hand) from a Copplestone Sikh soldier (I used the head from the prone gunner's assistant, since that's one figure I'd never use and he had quite a nice head). I also added the pistol holster.
Waheed Veedu - A Copplestone pulp hero, from the Armed Archaeologists pack.
The extras:
Eduardo Flores - Artizan thrilling tales figure
Red Queen - Another Statuesque miniature
Senhor Olivera - Hinterland figure, from their Pulp Characters pack (all of which are not-Tintin characters)
and the dog was just a find.
Blimey! These are unbelievably cool! All of them!
Cheers!
Oh my! That is some spectacular work. All of it in fact.
And Red Queen's face! Made my day.
Brilliant stuff Matthew!
Praise from the sculptor! Well, those figures sure were worth the effort - those lines are just so nice! You certainly do know how to form
alluring curves.
I was worried how the eyes would turn out as the lines are a little fine, but I was quite happy with her eyes too.
Not sure when or where my second Minerva will turn up (head intact
), but eventually she'll make an appearance.
Mate, what a wonderfull set of figures.
Love them all but that dress looks amazing.
Very well done.
Keep it coming.
Much obliged!
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn that is good stuff! That Red Queen is spectacular...but in fact ALL of them are!
Happy to spread the love around.
Those Indians look simply perfectly...Indian!!! Extremely good work that!
I´ve done that before, but it looks so much better on that dress. Here are close-ups of mine:
[*images*]
Haha, that's one of my favourite comments on the Indian league so far.
For the sparklies, well, I think you managed a very consistent, smooth application - that was what I was originally going for, but it turned out that not covering everything was a bit of a happy accident. Part of it may be that I still had some shading showing through. Also Andrew's sculpt is extremely good (it practically called out for sequins).
What he, & all the others, have said!!
Mine own mere praises would be inadequate echoes...
My Oh My!!
NOTHING shabby in that lot!
I think it may safely be said that One Fram Framson has defined
OOoooooh SHINY !!
Valerik
Stupefied, simply awestruck, agog
Well, I would say th- "Oooh a sparklie!" *gets distracted*
Just stunning made my day the whole lot are amazing work
Now I can put day-brightener on my resume!
OH...
MY...
GOD...
FRAM!!!!!!! that's fantastic. if i wasn't almost done painting my version of red, i'd steal borrow the glitter idea. i might consider adding stockings to her now though (giving you full credit).
i love your truly amazing ideas and painting work to match. super impressive all around and can't wait to see the indian league in action (apologies if i missed them already).
Nope! They haven't had an outing yet. Hopefully in a while, but I have to confront the gross lack of scenery we're under here. Got to get buildy buildy buildy.
I should be adding at least another couple of leagues in the near future though. We're short on unambiguous antagonists, so I've got cultists and nazis next in the pipe, though I'm waiting for some conversion parts for both leagues.