The United States Postal Service has been good to me of late.
The arrival of a big box of
Tome of Horrors goodness from
Pacesetter Games has produced much happiness here in the paint cave.
LINK Justifiably so... it was a delivery three years (and many dollars) in the making.
While cause for jubilation, it must not overshadow a package that arrived several days prior from
Mortal Arrow. The contents of said package? Snails, giant snails.
To be more specific, they are the
War Snail, Flogging and
War Snail, Ferrying, sculpted by the inestimable Pedro Navarro. Pedro's sculpts can be seen on his blog:
Link Link
These were generously provided by Mike at
Mortal Arrow so I could paint them for the website. Their completion will be a priority.
For
starters, they look great; chunky resin brutes with detail galore. Each
consists of an interchangeable shell and a body. The Ferrying Snail's
body is a single piece, The Flogging Snail's is three.
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| Ferrying Snail |
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| Flogging Snail |
The
shells each have a substantial lug of resin on their underside. I
immediately set about removing this bit from the spiral shell for the
scale shots above.
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| 4" Base Mockup |
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| 3 1/2" Base Mockup |
I intend to base these and, as the largest base on
hand is way too small, something suitable must be obtained. From the
cardboard mockups, 3 1/2" is the winner.
The
size of the base allows ample space for a little scenery so I tried out
some broken column bits. I may want to play with the elevations as well (sm column frag low, snail slightly elevated, lg column frag
slightly higher still). We'll see.
I'm relying on the
method described by Miniature Tim
for removing any residual mold-release. (My first foray into resin
miniatures so fingers crossed.) They are therefore currently taking an extended soak
in a solution of Dawn and water.
Next up: order some 3 1/2" disks.
