Fimm McCool
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As requested, here is where you will find details about a possible upcoming line of minis based on Celtic mythology, the Dark Crystal and a hint of old-school Citadel Fimir.
Two years ago and more now (how time flies!) I rediscovered Heroquest and got to thinking about why Fimir were no longer in the GW world (this was shortly before they got inside my head and made Fimir a viable troop choice again!). Resolved to discover a bit more about the misty monsters I did some digging and discovered a striking similarity between them and one of my childhood inspirations- The Dark Crystal. The seeds were sown- I would have a DC themed Fimir force!
Most of my models had heads scupted onto Lizardmen bodies (there's plenty of images on my blog) but I wanted to do some sculpting from scratch too. As a propmaker sculpting is one of my passions but I've always been a bit afraid of going down to 28mm (or 32mm scale). The oversized Fimir seemed like a good way to start scaling down.
First off was the large Dirach, a horned skeksi-style magician with the distinctive bony carapace:
Then a 28mm Drui, a small magic user based on the Mystics, or UrRu
Painted up- note the resculpt underway on the staff of the Drui
Then my good lady said could I sculpt her a Mystic, so I tried out a large Meargh option
Which she did a pretty good job of painting up as her first ever mini
After this I decided I wanted an entirely scratchbuilt unit of Fianna Fimm, so I sculpted two bodies which I took silicone moulds from and ran resin casts, sculpting unique heads and tails on each
And so we arrive at the present, a couple of multipart sculpts which will hopefully be cast up in lovely metal before the summer is out. A bit more DC themed, especially with the carapaces and longer snouts.
Had a good chat today with the casting people and it seems to make sense that I should fill up a centrifugal mould before getting casting done so I am looking at doing 10 models- the two warriors above, a command of a standard, musician and champion, a hero, a magic user, a smaller serf, servant, page or slave model, a Woldlouse Garthim-type monster and....
What? Here's where you get to play! If you would like to PM me a sketch design for a figure that would fit in nicely with the above then I'll post them here with a little poll to pick the favourite and the winner's design will not only be sculpted and cast up but the winner will get one of each castings absolutely free! Hooray, competition time- get those crayons out!
Two years ago and more now (how time flies!) I rediscovered Heroquest and got to thinking about why Fimir were no longer in the GW world (this was shortly before they got inside my head and made Fimir a viable troop choice again!). Resolved to discover a bit more about the misty monsters I did some digging and discovered a striking similarity between them and one of my childhood inspirations- The Dark Crystal. The seeds were sown- I would have a DC themed Fimir force!
Most of my models had heads scupted onto Lizardmen bodies (there's plenty of images on my blog) but I wanted to do some sculpting from scratch too. As a propmaker sculpting is one of my passions but I've always been a bit afraid of going down to 28mm (or 32mm scale). The oversized Fimir seemed like a good way to start scaling down.
First off was the large Dirach, a horned skeksi-style magician with the distinctive bony carapace:
Then a 28mm Drui, a small magic user based on the Mystics, or UrRu
Painted up- note the resculpt underway on the staff of the Drui
Then my good lady said could I sculpt her a Mystic, so I tried out a large Meargh option
Which she did a pretty good job of painting up as her first ever mini
After this I decided I wanted an entirely scratchbuilt unit of Fianna Fimm, so I sculpted two bodies which I took silicone moulds from and ran resin casts, sculpting unique heads and tails on each
And so we arrive at the present, a couple of multipart sculpts which will hopefully be cast up in lovely metal before the summer is out. A bit more DC themed, especially with the carapaces and longer snouts.
Had a good chat today with the casting people and it seems to make sense that I should fill up a centrifugal mould before getting casting done so I am looking at doing 10 models- the two warriors above, a command of a standard, musician and champion, a hero, a magic user, a smaller serf, servant, page or slave model, a Woldlouse Garthim-type monster and....
What? Here's where you get to play! If you would like to PM me a sketch design for a figure that would fit in nicely with the above then I'll post them here with a little poll to pick the favourite and the winner's design will not only be sculpted and cast up but the winner will get one of each castings absolutely free! Hooray, competition time- get those crayons out!