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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
    
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| This is the third of the Reaper minis I bought and last one to finished working on. Follow the link for more.
http://photobucket.com/albums/c339/glumag/Cryohydra/
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Planchet
Underboss
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Orion72
Underboss
1917 Posts
| | 12/31/2005 12:57 AM |
| Awesome paint job! I'm disappointed with the sculpt though - it's exactly the same as the Forest Dragon except wingless and multiheaded. I didn't think Reaper recycled them like that.
Again, sweet job. | | | |
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dariustad
Warlord
6322 Posts
| | 12/31/2005 1:03 AM |
| | Excellent Cryohydra! I do agree, though, that the sculpt is just plain bad. Big Heads, Little Necks. What does Reaper think this is? A bad anime RPG? [)] | |
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Corim Danex
Warlord
6805 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 12/31/2005 3:41 AM |
| I also agree that it is an excellent paint job on a poorly designed sculpt. The different blues on the scales look very good. The shading was done well, and the teeth/eyes look good.
Torso (in sculpt) is almost nonexistent. It makes me wonder if there is a stomach in there. So many heads, nowhere for the food to go... | |
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smithmeg
Sergeant
508 Posts
| | 12/31/2005 6:10 AM |
| Very nice Glumag (the frost giants are good too).
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 12/31/2005 8:13 AM |
| | Thank you all; this was indeed a poorly design miniature but I was in dire need of a Hydra. As Dariustad said, it is a bad anime sculpt [:p] | |
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yack
Commander
3259 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 12/31/2005 9:26 AM |
| | Love the color you went with. I have the same mini, I went with more of a brown/purple and I remember I had a hell of time putting it together. But like you said, I really needed a Hydra. Great Job! | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 12/31/2005 10:14 AM |
| | Thank you, Yack. It has a ton of different blues but the main effect come from dry brushing it with a folkart metallic saphire blue. The tongues are purple and blue but you cannot notice the purple much in the pics. | |
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ShadowLord XT
Commander
2633 Posts
Plane of Shadow
| | 12/31/2005 10:59 AM |
| | All of them are very cool. This one is my favortie. | |
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WakeXX
Warlord
10147 Posts
Edinboro PA
| | 12/31/2005 7:23 PM |
| | Nice work![)] | | | |
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Runelord151
Underboss
1203 Posts
| | 01/01/2006 10:33 PM |
| | This is actually my favorite of the three. The colors make him look like he's made of black ice. Is the blue metallic? | | | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 01/02/2006 1:12 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Runelord151
This is actually my favorite of the three. The colors make him look like he's made of black ice. Is the blue metallic?
Thanks! The underbelly is FolkArt 402 Light Blue, the top scales are Delta Adriatic Blue and the mid scales (the mid-row in the tail) is a mixture of both. The 'exposed flesh' is a watered down FolkArt 513 Cayman Blue. The dry-brushing of the scales was done with FolkArt 656 Metallic Blue Sapphire and the shadowing was done with watered down black india ink. The lighter parts' dry-brushing was FolkArt 701 Icy White.
Hope that answers your question [:p] | |
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schof
Sneak
97 Posts
| | 01/05/2006 1:05 PM |
| | As the others have said, i really dont like the sculpt but you did a fine job painting it :) | |
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Luisjoey
Underboss
1704 Posts
Caracas Venezuela
| | 01/08/2006 12:23 AM |
| | I like the paintjob but the sculpt is not accurate to D&D hydra, i would like a hydra in the future. | |
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Pale Rider
Underboss
1023 Posts
London, Ontario, Canada
| | 01/10/2006 1:23 PM |
| I wouldn't be surprised to see a Hydra in the War of the Dragon Queen set coming up this year.
You did a fantastic job on a less than fantastic miniature glumag - congrats!
What is with the chilly theme herein Crafter's Corner anyways? King Frosty Snurre, Frost Giants, Dire Polar Bears and now a Cryohydra - not that I'm complaining but is everyone running an arctic setting game all of a sudden? [:)] | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 01/10/2006 1:31 PM |
| Thanks Pale Rider!
I was indeed running a cold terrain encounter; first outside encounter with ice trolls, 40 or so orcs, displacer beasts, my white weretiger and a fomorian. Then it moved into a temples old ruins inside a mountain with a crap-load of frost giants, the cryohydra, winter wolves, ogre servants and a half frost giant-half white dragon (used a mageknight sorceror mini).
I needed the chill theme indeed. Wished I had time to do the polar dire bear because it called for one but I settled and used a regular dire bear instead...had no time to repaint one after painting all these three in 2 weeks (about 3 hrs a night for the most nights).
It is a crappy sculpt (very anime/manga) but that was the only affordable hydra I could get in a limited time.
I am not too sure about us getting a hydra on wotdq because they already announced tiamat and well, a hydra would be redundant for that set since they said they could do it as a Large so Huge would be it, and whata re the changes they will give us 2 multi-headed dragons in the same set? Just a thought. | |
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Nixlord
Underboss
2468 Posts
Quezon City, Philippines
| | 01/10/2006 2:03 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Pale Rider
What is with the chilly theme herein Crafter's Corner anyways? King Frosty Snurre, Frost Giants, Dire Polar Bears and now a Cryohydra - not that I'm complaining but is everyone running an arctic setting game all of a sudden? [:)]
The frosty Kord was my original suggestion to Runelord151 way back last year. But when he turned out too small to be a Frost Giant, I requested for a King Snurre repaint instead.
As for why all the chilly themes in repaints? I think it's probably because DMs (like myself) like to make cold setting adventures (sometimes just as a change of pace in a non-cold campaign).
Cold setting adventures seem to be much easier to place in a campaign (high in the mountains, winter season, etc.) than any of the other types (hot - limited to volcano-type areas, etc.).
I guess you can say I got influenced too much by the Icewind Dale games that now I always like to infuse Auril-based adventures in any of my campaigns. I have to really, or else my 8 Frost Giants and 4 Wampas go to waste. [:D]
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 01/10/2006 2:13 PM |
| I also find it that cold weather encounters and adventures tend to restrict the players a lot...I like them to realize that weather IS a factor in the game and looking for shelter and protection is also something that should be taken into account, besides your regular "let's-not-get-eaten-alive" bit.
Ok, we are moving into thr RPG topic now [:p] | |
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Link
Warrior
314 Posts
Netherlands
| | 01/13/2006 3:51 AM |
| Great paint job!
I have the same sculpt, and I think it's very nice. The only problem is that IMO this sculpt is more of a Large creature than a Huge. Don't you think so? | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 01/13/2006 9:19 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Link
Great paint job!
I have the same sculpt, and I think it's very nice. The only problem is that IMO this sculpt is more of a Large creature than a Huge. Don't you think so?
Yup, it is right smak in the middle but I consider it a bulky large. | |
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Link
Warrior
314 Posts
Netherlands
| | 01/13/2006 10:53 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by glumag
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Originally posted by Link
Great paint job!
I have the same sculpt, and I think it's very nice. The only problem is that IMO this sculpt is more of a Large creature than a Huge. Don't you think so?
Yup, it is right smak in the middle but I consider it a bulky large.
Then what do you use it for in play? Young Hydra or something like that? - cause Hydras are usually huge, aren't they? I have never used mine yet, so I am curious about what you do with it. | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 01/13/2006 1:57 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Link
Then what do you use it for in play? Young Hydra or something like that? - cause Hydras are usually huge, aren't they? I have never used mine yet, so I am curious about what you do with it.
I bought it, painted it and used it for only one encounter, in one room, and it lasted about 10 minutes. It called fro a cryohydra with 7 heads and the stats were as per the monster manual.
I use minis to represent things, not to BE the exact thing. Beats a penny. The magic happens in your head [)] | |
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