My Castle Characters

kelderic · Post by **kelderic** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm

The Viking helmets look so much better in black. What did you use the paint them?

Kelderic

Lord Felix · Post by **Lord Felix** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:35 pm

Wow. Great job as always!

Post by **Athos** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:57 pm

These are some great figures. I like how you, for the most part, use only official non-modified pieces, but still present very convincing figures. Now you just need a large village/diorama to be populated by these guys...

Steve

Spongey · Post by **Spongey** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:04 am

These are absolutely great figs. You are a true master of this art.

Post by **JoshWedin** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:59 am

Very nice! I'm going to have to get me some of those pearl grey horns. They look great on the black helmets.

kelderic wrote:The Viking helmets look so much better in black. What did you use the paint them?

Kelderic

He didn't paint them. See the following:

marakoeschtra wrote:First, these are some variations on the Viking theme mininfigs,
using black and tan viking helmets I bought on Bricklink a while ago:

Josh

smcginnis · Post by **smcginnis** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:41 am

I saw both pairs of vikings before, but I still like them, especially with the silver horns. The outlaws look great, the Durmstrang Elks look great as a new sort of evolution of the Forest-men/dwellers (though I understand they're different).

~smcginnis

Maedhros · Post by **Maedhros** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:43 am

JoshWedin wrote:
kelderic wrote:The Viking helmets look so much better in black. What did you use the paint them?

Kelderic
He didn't paint them. See the following:

marakoeschtra wrote:First, these are some variations on the Viking theme mininfigs,
using black and tan viking helmets I bought on Bricklink a while ago:

Are they prototypes or something then? I´ve heard that they were simply speckled and gold helmets with the speckles and gold rubbed off...

André · Post by **André** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:49 am

in which set can i find those durmstrang-torsos?

i really like the use of them. great job.

marakoeschtra · Post by **marakoeschtra** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:36 am

Maedhros wrote:
JoshWedin wrote:
kelderic wrote:The Viking helmets look so much better in black. What did you use the paint them?

Kelderic
He didn't paint them. See the following:

marakoeschtra wrote:First, these are some variations on the Viking theme mininfigs,
using black and tan viking helmets I bought on Bricklink a while ago:
Are they prototypes or something then? I´ve heard that they were simply speckled and gold helmets with the speckles and gold rubbed off...

I think that these are just the basic colors of the Viking helmets, and the speckle-ish finish is applied later. If you look inside the holes of a speckled Viking helmet, you'll notice that the inside of those holes is still black or tan.

Thank you all for your replies, I'm glad you still like my characters!

marakoeschtra · Post by **marakoeschtra** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:27 pm

Well, seems I'm back on track again.

The next characters are some guys you don't wanna meet in a dark alley;
these scary skeleton creatures are the result of some playing-around with black minifig accesories.

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Lamanda2 · Post by **Lamanda2** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:45 pm

Awesome work, I'm glad your making more of your characters again.
I've actually used the Durmstrung torso for a Forestman type figure, and it looks great. (I love it when torsos from another theme work good with castle.

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Thoses skellies are cool too. I like your use of that Black & White cape as well as the black suit of samurai armor- nice work!

~Amanda

E of Alshire · Post by **E of Alshire** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:04 pm

Maedhros wrote:
JoshWedin wrote:
kelderic wrote:The Viking helmets look so much better in black. What did you use the paint them?

Kelderic
He didn't paint them. See the following:

marakoeschtra wrote:First, these are some variations on the Viking theme mininfigs,
using black and tan viking helmets I bought on Bricklink a while ago:
Are they prototypes or something then? I´ve heard that they were simply speckled and gold helmets with the speckles and gold rubbed off...

Tan helmets are gold with the gold scratched/rubbed off,

Black are the same except with the silver scratched off. I've done it with a couple of mine.

See this thread.

So they're not expecially rare. Either way, nice figs.

EDIT: Just saw the new ones. The only thing I would change is using a 1 x 1 black upwards clip as the first one's legs- that's what I do for Dwarf skeletons. Looks great!

smcginnis · Post by **smcginnis** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:34 pm

Great new figs. But they look like they need some weapons (black halberd, black sword, etc.)

~smcginnis

Prince Imdol · Post by **Prince Imdol** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:56 pm

I love these characters.

Dunechaser · Post by **Dunechaser** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:34 am

Fantastic as always, Martin! The color-coordination on each group really makes them stand out.

I really have to start investing in some more unusual parts (I've used my black beard so many times!).

(And blogged, of course.

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