When Roger was coming up with his challenge, everybody had to pick four words from his lists, my firstr choice was Alien, part armoured, ranged weapon, mercenary, obviously this is a vague starting point, but I had an idea of an evolved fish type alien, loosely based on a Mudskipper ( a fish that can move over land, holding it's breath) using that as a basis and the four words I chose I came up with this.
It needs two water pockets to fit over it's gills, which I will cast in translucent blue resin, so it doesn't need to hold it's breath. Is it worth putting this into production ? As it's very different from a lot of models and races that other companies make.
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It's very cool! The kind of miniature that could spark a whole line of aquatic aliens, or just be a one-off for alien skirmish games like Stargrave or Rogue Stars.
ReplyDeleteThank you Keith, Matt's band of misfits he was adventuring with was some of the idea behind it, so the two games you mention it would fit well in with, got an idea for a Cyborg, but could see me doing lots of different pieces as a mercenary group.
DeleteMatt's Muppets? Or are we talking about a different Matt?
DeleteThe very same Brian, just couldn't remember the official name he had for them ! LOL
DeleteExcellent looking aquatic ET!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank you Iain, something a little different.
DeleteAngry Piper has the right of it, this beaut' would be perfect for a Stargrave-type game for sure. Love the idea mate.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dai, no shortage on ideas, just whether people like them or not ! LOL
DeleteOh, I love it! You are on fire with these designs!
ReplyDeleteThank you Suber, a few more kicking around my head space, so may get them done soon, as my head could do with the extra room ! LOL
DeleteOpohhh. Nice blend of fishy features and futuristic tech. 😀
ReplyDeleteThank you Stewart, when putting tech on, I try to think of it's purpose, on this one it's mostly for recycling it's water to allow it to breath.
DeleteThat is some very inspired sculpting, Dave! I can't help but think you've taken some inspiration from Star Wars which is chockful of aquatic inspired alien species. Though truthfully, I can't say I recall seeing one exactly like this. Its a pretty creative idea!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jeff, we have some truly strange looking creature in nature, so I often take inspiration from there, Star Wars does indeed have a lot of Aquatic races, but often follow the human form as someone needs to fit in the suit, with a model you don't have that limitation so can push it a lot further if required.
DeleteThere was an old cartoon strip that ran in the back of Dragon Magazine called "Wormy". I'm pretty sure they had some Mudskipper based creatures, but maybe it was salamanders? Anyways, this reminded me of that (beloved) strip! As others have said, this would be a great mini for various SciFi games!
ReplyDeleteThank you Brian, never read Dragon so missed that one completely, but glad I could remind you of the strip. Will probably put him into production after all the feedback.
DeleteLooks like Wormy has been collected online, if you want to check it out: https://sites.google.com/site/wormycollected/Home It was an interesting comic strip, set in a Fantasy setting that really had nothing to do with D&D. The artist is one of my favorite early D&D artists.
DeleteThanks Brian, I'll check it out.
DeleteWhat a great figure (so far) and consiering it's from your ownimagiation. it worls really well.
ReplyDeleteThank you Joe, it was a fun one to come up with, and hopefully got a couple more ideas brewing at the moment.
DeleteNow that is clever! :-) Definitely like this one!
ReplyDeleteThank you John, really must try some steam punk robots at some point, as I know that's an area you like.
DeleteThat sounds like a good idea! Most 28mm robots work quite well in 20mm as well!
DeletePlus I've not done much steampunk, so will be good experience to try something new ! LOL
DeleteWell, that is certainly a unique looking creature! The elusive "fishman" brought into existence in a futuristic sense! Reminds me of course of old Muddy Mudskipper from R&S! ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you Azazael, fun little project, it's always a tricky one, to how much fish reference and how much human you go for, if you take off the arms an legs, the body is in an actual mudskipper pose, so to try to keep as much of the original source in there. That's not one I know of, so will have to go and have a look at that.
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