Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Killer Klowns

Send in the clowns... the naked, obese, homicidal clowns.

EDIT 05/28/16
Mortal Arrow will only be distributing Fractured Dimensions miniatures until the end of this month (May 2016). A word to the wise: get them while you can. 
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Two more minis from Fractured Dimensions' IMotOP Kickstarter are done. These lovelies are a sort of devil called a perribo, first seen as the nupperibo in 1983's Monster Manual II. Their appearance owes more to an illustration by Tony DiTerlizzi for the Planescape setting than to any written description. In fact, that illustration and the written description seem oddly contradictory.

So concludes the D&D minutia portion of the program.

Sculptor Paul Muller did an amazing job with these two. The man's a master of anatomy and musculature (or fat rolls in this case).  Moreover, like all of his sculpts, they practically ooze character (among other things). The heads have a pronounced clown-vibe that led me to the paint scheme seen above.

A not too distant cousin?

To my mind these guys fall just as easily into the ranks of the undead. A sort of demonic ghoul. So inspired, I experimented with a new undead skin-color... pink. Grey was added to pink for the base, a pale, undead fleshtone added progressively to that for the highlights, assorted washes for the shading. The colors used:

The black should be used VERY sparingly, if at all.

Overall, it was warm colors on everything but the heads. Hopefully the cool blue used there provides a nice contrast. 

WIPs:


The finished product:



Various colors used for the undead:

They're like skittles.

The end:

Zombie got Back

18 comments:

  1. Your recipe for the skin tone worked well and that cool blue is a good contrast. Wouldn't want to be their proctologist :0)

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    1. You won't see me volunteering either. Thank you, Anne.

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  2. Proper scary...especially the rear view! Eeek!

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    1. No butts about it... I saved the most horrifying image for last.

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  3. Wonderful!
    Total approval.. lovely warm/cold transitions.. and an amusing conclusion :}

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    1. Thank you, Baron. As they're technically supposed to be devils, The predominately warm palette seemed fitting.

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  4. Beautifully painted Finch. A top job!

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  5. Absolutely brilliant Mr. Finch! That will be another skin recipe I'll be trying to replicate at some point - thank you!

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    1. Thank you.

      A recipe or two is the very least I can offer considering all I've appropriated from your blog, good sir.

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  6. There marvellously painted mate They're suitably evil looking!

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    1. Thanks, Simon. It turns out clowns are even scarier with their clothes off. Who knew?

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  7. Oh now they are seriously disturbing minis Finch. They actually scare me... and its probably because they have more than a passing resemblance to the Blue meanies from "The Yellow Submarine"; a film which terrified me as a child and still does to this day - sad I know. Wonderfully painted though and I'm very greatful to you for your WIP images as I pick up all sorts of top tips from class painters such as yourself. Much appreciated.

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    1. That's very kind of you to say, BK. Many thanks.

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  8. LMAO ... that parental advisory censor block was genius. Super paint job Finch and you are using one of my many favourite Vallejo colours i.e. Old Rose.

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    1. Thank you, Kuan.

      Seems to me I saw you use the paint to good effect on Spongebob's sidekick a while back.

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  9. Awesome job Finch! I love your undead skintones.
    Did you know these were modelled from photos of my latest beach shots.

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    1. Yikes! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

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