Ovy wrote:Always nice to see some fantasy leatherwork, that two coloured sandy brown vest is great and looks very universally useable. With bare manly arms in the cold or some hot sandy arena pit, I am sure it serves him well.
What I like about the footwear, it covers the ankle joint, but still does not hide the toes.
An yes, soldier story has many nice unique headsculpts.
Thank you very much. My leatherwork cannot compete with that of some others (not least yours or the fantasy world of Ephiane), but I think it (almost) makes do for this character. The vest is loosely based on an ancient Greek cuirass, but in leather (supposedly there were some of those around, too). I wish the back part of the footwear didn't stick out as much (should have made a bigger cut out, probably), but otherwise I agree completely. In fact, believe it or not, I was thinking about you and your hatred of the few remaining exposed joints on TBLeague figures, when putting this together. Which is not to say I endeavored to cover all of them. But when I posted the penultimate photo above, I noticed the light had just hit that part of the body, and I thought to myself "Oh no, Ovy will see and hate that!" But then I resigned myself to my fate and placed my trust in knowing you are a better man than that.
Soldier Story, DAM, and MiniTimes are among my favorite companies when it comes to head sculpts from parted-out sets. Of course Hot Toys can achieve an even better quality and sometimes a better likeness, but with them we're pretty much stuck with big-name actors; nor are they infallible.
skywalkersaga wrote:That's gorgeous! And I'm not getting so cold from looking at him now.
The backdrop works really, really well, imo. Not sure if it's meant to depict a real place, but it resembles a fantasy-ized version of Dinas Bran...
Thank you, I'm very glad you liked it. And see how your wish is my command.
With the exception of the occasional Star Wars backdrop, all my backgrounds are of real places or things -- whether printed or projected on the computer screen. I didn't catch or look up the name of this castle, but it is a real set of ruins somewhere in Europe (I think). The first one with this
kitbash (with the gate tower) is on the Black Sea. Which is my excuse as for why the kitbashed warrior is so (relatively) neat and clean. He had just been washed... on an empty beach (cue U2 lyrics and tunes)...
The three background images in recent photos are all from the Microsoft sign-in screens.