Yesterday I got out my paints and brushes for the first time in months and did a few new animals for Palaeo Diet.
First to be completed were these wolves from Slave2Gaming, part of their Grim Fantasy range. I used some of these in a game back in May, and loved the energetic poses, so I got Drew to bring me a couple of packs when we had our club Christmas meetup last week. So not only have I managed to paint some figures, but I did it within a week of receiving them.
Here's the pack.
To be honest the size difference isn't too jarring, and I'd generally field both types of figure as a basic pack predator.
The second lot of new figures I did are based on some miniatures I acquired over 20 years ago. Over the past couple of years I've been building up a selection of Australian creatures, and in theory I have something suitable for all of the basic creature types except for the giant grazers. There's not really many options for these in the Australian megafauna, but the most obvious choice is the giant wombat, Diprotodon. So I set out to make some, since you can't get any commercially (this is a hint to any figure manufacturers who may be reading this).
Anyway, to go back to my original statement, I used some small toy bears that I acquired around 20 years ago. Their body shape is about right, as is the size, so the only real issue was their faces which, being bears, are somewhat pointer and more carnivore-like than the wombat/koala-featured Diprotodon. Milliput came to the rescue.
Nice looking wolf pack, Kaptain๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
ReplyDeleteLove those wombats! Cheers, Karl
ReplyDeleteThere aren't enough wombats on people's wargaming tables, in my opinion :)
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