{"id":1616,"date":"2017-04-14T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/gaming\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:25:52","slug":"savage-land-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Savage Land Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

As anyone who read my Breeder Bombs campaign<\/a> knows, I decided rather late in the campaign to set the final scenario in the Savage Land and to add some classic characters to the mix. Here’s what I did.<\/p>\n

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For Sauron, I didn’t do much beyond a rebasing and a new paint job. Above is the factory paint job, which, I think we can all agree, looks like complete shit.<\/p>\n

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Here is the finished product. I’m not the greatest painter in the world, but it doesn’t take much effort to make the original factory paint job look a hell of a lot better (or at least not like complete shit).<\/p>\n

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No game set in the Savage land would be complete without Ka-Zar, Shanna and Zabu. I looked up the clix versions of the characters and instantly hated them all. Well, Ka-Zar wasn’t too bad, but I knew I could do a lot better for Shanna and Zabu.<\/p>\n

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I checked a lot of manufacturers for a Tarzan figure. Tin Man<\/a> makes a great traditional Tarzan, and Warlord<\/a> has a very cool “Beastlord”. I settled on Reaper, because I thought Reaper’s version best captured Ka-Zar’s look. (Plus, he comes with a monkey. Who doesn’t need another monkey?) I\u00a0also went to Reaper for a Sabretooth tiger miniature. Although Reaper makes more than one tiger, I chose this one based entirely on price. One slightly-rushed paint job later, and they were ready to go. I think his dagger looks a bit too “fantasy” for Ka-Zar’s Bowie knife, but I felt like converting it would just be a little more trouble than it was worth, so I left it as-is.<\/p>\n

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Shanna was a bit more work. I used this Heroclix Tigra miniature as the base model, because she’s practically wearing Shanna’s costume already (how many miniatures have a tooth-belt bikini?). One quick application of the nippy cutters removed her tail and her right arm. For the spear arm I used the arm from a GW skink warrior. It turned out to be the perfect size (although it’s a bit more muscular than Tigra’s other arm).<\/p>\n

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Another slightly-rushed paint job later and presto! One Shanna the She-Devil, ready to rumble in the jungle!<\/p>\n

Although I don’t see myself using these miniatures for further Savage Land adventures, they’re useful for other genres…(Pulp and Congo gaming come to mind).<\/p>\n

Now I just need to replace my Tigra miniature since I’ll probably be needing her sooner or later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As anyone who read my Breeder Bombs campaign knows, I decided rather late in the campaign to set the final scenario in the Savage Land and to add some classic characters to the mix. Here’s what I did. For Sauron, I didn’t do much beyond a rebasing and a new paint job. Above is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,3,31,25],"tags":[28,16,57],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversions","category-miniatures","category-repaints","category-super-heroes","tag-heroclix","tag-reaper","tag-super-mission-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}