custom brick-only monster...Harpy..

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custom brick-only monster...Harpy..

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here is the harpy monster I have been working on for a couple of days...

the harpy is generally depicted as having the face or figure of a woman, and the body, wings and talons of a bird...

here is a pic of my harpy fighting one of my a scorpion warriors...

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and here are the deeplinks...


http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/boses ... harpy2.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/boses ... harpy3.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/boses ... harpy4.jpg

please tell me what you think...
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Post by Stone Goblin »

Cool moc!
Only thing it lacks is a detailed head. Also the wings look a little small for the body to wing size ratio and shouldn't a harpy have three front talons? Oh well it's still very cool looking.
Crush that scorpion warrior!
Like the robot arm for hair.
Keep turning out more mythology figure creatures Boses.
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Post by lil Jon »

That almost looks like a mech. BTW, have you ever tried building mechs, I bet you'd be really good at it.

I don't know much about harpies, but it should have a little thumb on her wings like a bat. It just sort of looks like you forgot arms. Maybe that is the point though.

Anywho, great feet... good job.
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I deliberately made the face for the harpy to look like a minifig head, with no nose or ears, the higher order of beings in my stories usually lack such features...

I was going to use larger quarter circle plates for the wings, but I like these better...The larger wings made the harpy resemble a butterfly, like the Balrog-thing in the LOTR cartoon movie...I had spent a while figuring out the legs,and as can sometimes happen this model was starting to look top heavy, a major stumbling block in many designs including mecha, which this model may resemble...

mecha... I used to build a lot of mecha but the leg structure of the harpy was somewhat baffling to build... making the legs able to rotate at the hip as well as pivot outwards...

I didn't forget the arms, in my story and others harpies don't have arms, and I left the thumb claw for poultry... :wink:

As I mentioned the feet were beginning to get too big, so I settled on two talons per leg...the harpy, while large is more feathers then body, and I layered plates to make a feathery look... :wink:

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Post by Stone Goblin »

With the limits of the scale I can see why it could be tough to add more. It would disfigured it's look like you said.
Boses
deliberately made the face for the harpy to look like a minifig head, with no nose or ears, the higher order of beings in my stories usually lack such features...
That seems just fine for that reason. Good job! :)
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