{"id":6014,"date":"2022-08-22T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2022-08-22T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:22:15","slug":"bard-with-bagpipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=6014","title":{"rendered":"Bard with Bagpipes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my Character of the Month, and for my submission to Tom’s #paintanadventuringparty challenge on Instagram, I chose to do a bard: specifically, this old-school Grenadier “Bard with Bagpipes”, sculpted by the great Andrew Chernak as part of one of the original Grenadier AD&D boxed sets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sadly, I don’t own the boxed set; but I picked this guy up loose on eBay a few years ago, since he was, up until then, a bagpiper miniature I did not own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This guy has some bizarre fashion sense: a conquistador helmet, billowed sleeves, hose, toe shoes and some weird diaper-thing. I decided anyone who would dress like that would be looking for attention, so I painted him up as a troubadour in garish colors. A friend pointed out that his highland bagpipes have the traditional three drones and that his hand positioning on the chanter is pretty good–two things that are often sculpted incorrectly on bagpiper miniatures. Chernak did it right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only four more character classes to go until the end of the year (did that fly by or is it just me?): Monk, Wizard, Warlock and Paladin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apologies to all who have noticed my conspicuous absence from this site and from the blogoshere this month. Some family health problems have occupied my every waking thought lately; and I am way behind on hobby stuff. Still hoping to get something done for Dave’s Summer of Scenery by the end of the month, although it won’t be the AMT Deep Space Nine model as I originally planned. That turned out to be a bigger project than I anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope to be back in full form soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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