Monday, December 21, 2015

Grenadier Umber Ripper / Mirliton Tasmania Devil

For this update, I present Grenadier's Umber Ripper (MM87 from their Monster Manuscript line from the mid 80s,) which is currently still available from Mirliton Miniatures but is listed as "Tasmania Devil."  

http://www.coolminiornot.com/390921

I went with a mostly naturalistic color scheme, although his tongue was highlighted with a florescent  pink.  I somewhat regret this color scheme now though, as I think it might be interesting to see this figure painted in some really wild colors.  Maybe on flaming base.



Overall, a fun and relatively fast figure to paint.  Thanks for stopping by, and stay tuned for more.

5 comments:

  1. Gorgeous, nice earth tones, then that tongue is screaming (nice that some classic Grenadiers are on the Mirliton range). Do they have all of the Monster Manuscript figures?

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    1. Thanks! I wish they had all of them, but no, they have a random assortment.

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  2. Hmm, Mirliton have some fun stuff. I like their "Fungoid". This guy is an enjoyable oddity even if the sculpt is very old school in style. I don't have a problem with your colours, monsters can be brown for the same reasons bears are brown, right? And that tongue really stands out this way.

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  3. Hmm, Mirliton have some fun stuff. I like their "Fungoid". This guy is an enjoyable oddity even if the sculpt is very old school in style. I don't have a problem with your colours, monsters can be brown for the same reasons bears are brown, right? And that tongue really stands out this way.

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