{"id":4288,"date":"2021-02-18T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:40:08","slug":"fem-bruary-under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"Fem-bruary: Under the Sea…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Got the song in your head? good. I’d put a picture of Sebastian the crab here, but the Mouse is known to be one litigious rodent…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, it had to happen eventually. I made a diorama. I’ve never done one before. While I can marvel at and enjoy a good scene as much as the next guy, I’ve always been more practical when it comes to painting miniatures. I do so assuming I will use them in a game someday (see how that has turned out), so keeping miniatures locked in place holds little utility for me. That, coupled with my ambivalence towards scenery-making, has pretty much kept dioramas off my personal hobby list until now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Behold: The Mermaids’ Grotto. I actually had the idea to do this a few years ago, but shelved it because I couldn’t get excited about making a diorama. I pretty much followed the tutorial from Eons of Battle <\/a>for constructing underwater bases. The seaweed is made from twist ties; the shells are from a novelty candle that was full of pink sand (don’t ask), and the “rock” is pink XPS board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the miniatures are from Reaper’s Dark Heaven line. This one is Children of the Zodiac: Pisces (03300), sculpted by the legendary Sandra Garrity. She was the first one I painted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is Pearl, the Mermaid (03078), sculpted by Werner Klocke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And finally, Coral, the Mermaid (03554) sculpted by Gene Van Horne. This miniature required some cutting and repositioning, as her original pose was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see, her tail disappears for a while under the surface of the water. This wasn’t going to cut it in a scene that’s supposed to take place on the ocean floor, so out came the nippy cutters and the green stuff. It’s not a perfect join, but it looks ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The octopus and the eel were from Familiar Pack VII, which features a bunch of aquatic critters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s another shot of Pisces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Halfway through making this diorama, I realized that my first Fem-bruary submission shows a lot of boobs. Don’t get me wrong, boobs are great; it just wasn’t really my intent to focus so much on them in a month celebrating female miniatures. (I’m not a teenager. It’s just that most mermaids aren’t particularly modest.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m hoping to get a couple more female miniatures done soon, one of which will be my D&D Character of the month; so watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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