"Woodland Warriors Villager Personalities" Topic

I've finished the Woodland Warriors Villager Personalities pack from Splintered Light Miniatures.

I'll post up the final picture in a couple days but in the mean time you'll have to drop by my blog to see the bonus figures and the full picture set.

Extremely nice work, and dangerously attractive.

My wallet trembles.

Edit: and it pushes me over the "18mm limit" edge but only briefly.

Awesome work! Thanks for sharing.

David
splinteredlightminis.com

Really lovely work.

Great stuff. There is something very appealing about a Wind in the Willows game. All we need are weasels and stoats dressed as good Edwardians, or rather not-so-good Edwardians (with a smattering of muskets as in the book) and we'd be off and running!

Splendid! It's the only thing!

Mutton Chop has some lovely human versions of the characters including weasels with a Lewis gun.

But these are perfect for 28mm to my thinking.

@Daryl H

I am with you. We'd need a kickstarter or something.

The sculpting would cost US$2-3K for about ten figures. We'd need maybe 5+ weasels. One or two with party hats, 2 with guns, and a boss. We'd need 5 new friend sculpts. A new water rat sculpt more in line with Moore's artistry (The standard and best in my opinion) and 4 versions of the friends armed with clubs, swords, and pistols.

Bonus goals would be Toad and his car. Boat for Toad, Rat's boat, perhaps the judge and police for Toad's incarceration, (Some existing 28mm stuff might work well here) Toad and Mole in drag, other minor characters, etc…

Molds, casting, distribution, and enticement for David, I'm sure the KS would have to be at least 5000+. I'll go 200 to start, anyone else?

@David J

Yes! The book imagery has these fellows sort of living in a friendly parallel world to the humans albeit smaller.

Mutton Chop? Share a link please.

By the way working on a batch of weasels from Splintered Light as the bad guys. Glued on their bases currently but a good ways off. Unfortunately as beautiful as I imagine them they will be armed with hand weapons and bows not guns.

Your ideas are very inspiring, Snafu! I've never done a KS before (and am not sure I entirely understand them), but I think I'd be willing to go 200 as well. I love your ideas on which sculpts to do, though I'd desperately hope we get one of toad in drag, as it's one of the little fellow's seminal scenes.

Interesting what you say about Moore. I have to admit to not recognizing her--I had to Google image search--but agree with you her work is gorgeous. Really captures much of the mood of that most delightful of books. Must say I might still prefer Ernest Shepherd, however. Arthur Rackham, generally one of my favourite illustrators, didn't quite nail this book, at least in my opinion, perhaps because he was very old (in a retirement home, in fact) when he did them.

Weasels and stoats could be really fun. I shudder to admit it, but I've always liked the look of the weasels in Roger Rabbit. They are in fact about the only thing I like in what is otherwise a pretty dreadful film. They are rather cartoony, and are dressed in clothes a decade or two too late, but the idea is there. They are decidedly nasty looking, as they should be.

David, I'm also not able to find what Mutton Chop sculpts you are referring to.

Very nice work!

Doug

Here they are.

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Very, very nicely painted! I love these figures and was really proud of how mine painted up. But these are something else! Outstanding detail on such small, but perfectly formed figures. :)