| Cacique Caribe | 17 Nov 2010 11:32 p.m. PST |
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Uesugi Kenshin  | 18 Nov 2010 12:20 a.m. PST |
How about Zombie kids…remember that topic! |
| infojunky | 18 Nov 2010 12:25 a.m. PST |
Humm, Jawas? Or in the post apocalypse everyone is born adult? GZGs colonists have a couple of snotgobblers, Qrf might have one too in their not-Aliens figs… |
| rvandusen | 18 Nov 2010 3:38 a.m. PST |
a cool kid could be based on that feral brat from "The Road Warrior" |
| Battle Works Studios | 18 Nov 2010 5:31 a.m. PST |
Post-apoc isn't really my thing, but whole gangs of feral children would be kind of neat. Plenty of inspiration out there – everything from Lord of the Flies to Star Trek's Miri episode (complete with creepy Shatner pseudo-pedophilia). Near-future feralkinder ought to be ragged little cannibal brats, armed with a mix of pistols and pointy things and dressed in whatever tacky stuff they can loot from the local mall. Maybe have some that dress up in cut-down "big folk" business clothes, others in beat up costumes (Halloween/cowboy/pirate/superhero), some just in rags and tatters, and maybe an organized set in the remains of their military school uniforms (instructors' skulls at their belts, no doubt). Seems like a bunch of big nasty dogs as "pets" would fit the theme as well. Whether anyone would buy these figs I don't know, but they're no more unlikely than a conjoined twin zombie figure. |
| Battle Miniatures Emporium | 18 Nov 2010 6:44 a.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 18 Nov 2010 11:16 p.m. PST |
"whole gangs of feral children would be kind of neat" My thought exactly! They would be almost as bad as a horde of Terminator droids: link Dan |
| Lampyridae | 19 Nov 2010 2:32 a.m. PST |
With suitable amounts of radiation after a nuclear holocaust, yes I guess 15mm tall children would be produced… |
| Paint it Pink | 19 Nov 2010 11:09 a.m. PST |
Peter Pig do 15mm African child soldiers, and women soldiers packs too. |
| Battle Miniatures Emporium | 19 Nov 2010 2:51 p.m. PST |
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| Eli Arndt | 19 Nov 2010 2:55 p.m. PST |
I may have to take a stab at it. Sounds like an interesting challenge for anew sculptor. -Eli |
| Zephyr1 | 19 Nov 2010 4:08 p.m. PST |
I have them in my "to sculpt" lists somewhere. But as to when…. |
| StarfuryXL5 | 19 Nov 2010 9:32 p.m. PST |
They would be almost as bad as a horde of Terminator droids: But much easier to gun down. |
| Cacique Caribe | 19 Nov 2010 9:39 p.m. PST |
"But much easier to gun down." Ah, but most people would hesitate, until it was way too late. Dan |
| Eli Arndt | 20 Nov 2010 12:53 a.m. PST |
I started working on these today, actually. Any particular archetypes you were looking for? -Eli |
| Battle Miniatures Emporium | 20 Nov 2010 7:08 a.m. PST |
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| Eli Arndt | 20 Nov 2010 9:45 a.m. PST |
I just started them. As of the time of the post, I had made the armatures and done some of the initialy putty shaping. Nothing to take pictures of yet. -Eli |
| Battle Miniatures Emporium | 21 Nov 2010 8:10 a.m. PST |
Cool Bro…looking forward to seeing what you do with this one.
The subject is easy…the hard part is that the model(s) need to be very small, to look right. |
| Eli Arndt | 21 Nov 2010 11:41 a.m. PST |
Yeah, the size is the big concern. It means being tricky to keep limbs from being too thin. I am considering various tricks to reinforce them. Such things as incorporating a bit of scenery into the pose. Bunching multiple children into a single miniature to help with bulking the figs up. I figure most child figures if they were used, would be used in an RPG or scenario-based context. They would likely be objectives or other scenario conditions in a purely miniatures game context. -Eli |
| Battle Miniatures Emporium | 21 Nov 2010 12:44 p.m. PST |
Yup…I agree. It's that or do up a large gang of the little monsters. You know a good (FUN) way to sneak Terrain into a piece, is to have a broken post or sing, or piece of building on the base.
Think of a kid leaning against something like that…it gives the model strength, and adds a lot of atmosphere to the work. |
| Cacique Caribe | 12 Jan 2011 11:49 p.m. PST |
Guys, Anything new on this? Dan |
| 28mmMan | 13 Jan 2011 12:11 a.m. PST |
Yuck. Zero interest in sculpting 15mm PA kids for me. So much out there that is more interesting for me at least…perhaps someone else will take on this option. |
| Eli Arndt | 13 Jan 2011 9:40 a.m. PST |
I did a few as an experiment. In 15mm it's hard to do them and still keep them looking like kids. -Eli |
takes some South Africans and turns them into urban bad guys.
