Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
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Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
This figure has been sitting on my desk for a while. Seems like it should be a quick paint job, but I just haven't taken the time to sit down and do something with it.
I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with this Yeti Warrior from Reaper Miniatures, but maybe doing a groupbuild will inspire me. All white seems too boring, so I'm thinking of a light blue shading with white/brown/grey high/lowlights.
It's a fantasy miniature for use in D&D or other similar games and is scaled at about 1/56 or 28mm.
I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with this Yeti Warrior from Reaper Miniatures, but maybe doing a groupbuild will inspire me. All white seems too boring, so I'm thinking of a light blue shading with white/brown/grey high/lowlights.
It's a fantasy miniature for use in D&D or other similar games and is scaled at about 1/56 or 28mm.
Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
Looks determined!!. Do a stand alone model, or perhaps some climbers running away!!.
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
Now there's a fierce looking chap
There won't be a lot of entertainment found in the fur, but it looks like it's face and (to a lesser degree) hands should give you something to play with. Maybe you could have it chase some mountain troops off it's hill?
There won't be a lot of entertainment found in the fur, but it looks like it's face and (to a lesser degree) hands should give you something to play with. Maybe you could have it chase some mountain troops off it's hill?
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Cool beans.
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
You could go the traditional white or add some mottling as found on other creatures leiving on a similar environment e.g. Snow leopard
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
That's a ferocious looking beast! He really needs to be chasing somebody.
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
Hopefully, this one will be done in tabletop mode for someone to use as part of a D&D campaign.MarkyM607 wrote:Looks determined!!. Do a stand alone model, or perhaps some climbers running away!!.
Yeah, there doesn't seem to be too much to do with this one, but I'm going to try and liven it up a bit. We'll see how it turns out.rob_van_riel wrote:Now there's a fierce looking chap
There won't be a lot of entertainment found in the fur, but it looks like it's face and (to a lesser degree) hands should give you something to play with. Maybe you could have it chase some mountain troops off it's hill?
I'm thinking of making it look a little icy/frosty, with some muddy/grim in a few points. Kind of a ice-blue Wampa from Hoth.JamesPerrin wrote:You could go the traditional white or add some mottling as found on other creatures leiving on a similar environment e.g. Snow leopard
Hopefully, he'll chase...AND CATCH...someone raiding party!TimJ wrote:That's a ferocious looking beast! He really needs to be chasing somebody.
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
The primer also shows what appear to be seams between the fingers/claws ?
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
Explains a lot. It's a fairly vain thing really, and it's a bit miffed it just can't get a proper manicurejRatz wrote:The primer also shows what appear to be seams between the fingers/claws ?
The seam also seems to extend up the right arm, so possibly elsewhere as well.
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
Definitely, some seam lines to deal with. The plastic these are made of, as well as the fur detail, really make it a pain to clean these properly. The waxy type of plastic gets "feathery" and doesn't want to come off the figure. To clean these up, you have to scrap the seams, then get some tweezers and pull the little bits off, then repeat. Still I made some progress on the body and hands, although the hands still need a bit more. I'm not planning on dealing with the join between the right arm and the torso at the shoulder. That's how the figure came out of the package and trying to clean that up is more work than it would be worth. I'm hoping to hide it with some painting. We'll see.rob_van_riel wrote:Explains a lot. It's a fairly vain thing really, and it's a bit miffed it just can't get a proper manicurejRatz wrote:The primer also shows what appear to be seams between the fingers/claws ?
The seam also seems to extend up the right arm, so possibly elsewhere as well.
I've had a few distractions at, and away from, the bench lately, so this Yeti isn't as far along as I'd like. I've started detailing the fur, and decided that I'll be painting hands, feet and some of the face in partial skin tones. I'd like to make this almost look like a man wearing a fur suit. Here's how it sits at the moment.
I'm starting to like how the fur looks and I'm hoping I can do some decent detailing around the face. In addition to work, life, and other kits distracting me from the Yeti, I've also been working on a couple other figures, which are closer to completion. Like the Yeti, they are 28mm miniatures for use in RPG games like D&D.
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Your Yeti looks quite stylish in the blue!
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
You could have him photobombing a climber who is taking a selfie
.....If it was a big enough scale, you could have taken a photo of the climber with the yeti behind him and then reduced that and glued it to the climbers camera as the viewer screen
.....dammit! I should have kept that idea for myself!
.....If it was a big enough scale, you could have taken a photo of the climber with the yeti behind him and then reduced that and glued it to the climbers camera as the viewer screen
.....dammit! I should have kept that idea for myself!
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Re: Not sure why I haven't painted this one Yeti
He looks rather ferocious. Looking good.
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