Friday 26 February 2016

TWD - Daryl and Carol

Hi all

on to the next offering for my TWD project and here we have an unusual pairing. Before the apocalypse it would have been highly unlikely that Daryl the redneck biker misfit and stay at home mom Carol would have been moving in the same circles.  Now after all they have been through as a group the two have them have formed an unlikely bond.


Daryl is the younger brother of Merle - a bullish, racist and unsavory character who very quickly puts himself in opposition to Rick Grimes who as a cop represents his checkered history of crime and imprisonment.  Daryl on the other hand although superficially seems the same, shows loyalty to the group and becomes a trusted friend and capable tracker/fighter for them.  An interesting point of trivia is that the role of Daryl wasn't in the comic or in the original script for the TV series but was added after Norman Reedus, the actor who plays Daryl read for the part of Merle and blew the writers away.


Daryl was a straight build from the WGF male survivor set with xbow arms from a different fig attached.  I also used the chubby guy's head as well as it has a goatee beard plus the slightly longer hair.  The paint job is simple as he tends to wear unrelieved black, but he does have a distinctive jacket back patch, which i have tried to recreate.


Carol evacuated her home with her abusive husband Ed and her daughter Sophia in hopes of a safe haven in Atlanta. Nearing their destination, she came into the company of Lori grimes and Shane Walsh, who had evacuated the city. The Peletiers then joined a camp of survivors. Following the deaths of her husband and daughter, Carol formed a close bond with fellow Atlanta camp survivors Lori and Daryl, and she became the adoptive mother to Lizzie and Mika Samuels after the death of their father, Ryan, and formed a close, but complex bond with Tyreese during the fall of the prison.



Carol, along with Michonne are my favourite characters in the TV series as they are just totally badass.  In the comics the apocalypse gets too much for Carol and she ends up become more and more neurotic eventually killing herself.  I made her up from the WGF female set and painted her up in her reds and browns.  As Carol goes further on in the apocalypse the more heavily armed she becomes, here she has dual pistols. I was thinking of adding either a shotgun, BA rifle or an assault rifle but decided not  to overload the model.


enjoy
dGG

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figs bought:painted (difference)

18 comments:

  1. Brilliant, I must admit I thought this was an odd pairing too, but it just seemed to work in the TV series. I love your renditions here.

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    1. Not the original odd couple but certainly was a head scratcher.... It so works though I love the relationship between them.

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  2. Carol was stupendous in the Terminus episode. I had great difficulty in actually enjoying the WF apoc survivor men kit (haven't got the women set) but have come to like them now. Had to rebuild them several times! All your recent builds have been very good, thank you for sharing.

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    1. She was immense and rapidly became my favourite (or one of them!) the kits have been really useful in bulking out my civilians/gangs/survivors

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  3. Carol and Daryl are amongst my favourite characters from TWD and your conversions are just spot on. I do especially like your figure of Carol. The only thing she's missing is her trademark knuckleduster/knife.

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    1. I know what you mean Bryan, I had a little think about how to do it and I came up blank as my sculpting skills are weak. If something comes along I'll try to add it and reshoot her with that duster/knife

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  4. More great work Andy! These conversions are yet another example of just how useful the WGF kits are. Keep this mini project going dude it's inspirational.

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    1. I've got a couple more posts to come dude all based around these kits...

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  5. Nice builds and you've painted them brilliantly. Really like Daryll's leather jacket wings in particular. Well done fella.

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    1. Thanks Simon, I'm pleased with how they came out :-)

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  6. Not having ever watched The Walking Dead (which is heresy, I know) I can only go on the pictures of the characters for comparison and you've pretty much nailed the characters. Carol is especially good, whereas Darryl has reminds me of Snake Plissken if he was portrayed by Sean Bean. Nice work, Andy.

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    1. Heresy indeed Jez! Lol I get where you're coming from with Daryl

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  7. Great builds Andy, and top paint jobs on both. They're clearly who you intended them to be. Warlord's repackaging/rebranding and yourself are making those plastic survivors a very tempting "Salute" purchase :-)

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    1. The biker gangs look really good too, two more TWD posts with the best for last Simon :-)

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  8. Good take on these two, simple enough conversions once more, but it's mainly down to your brushwork getting them to look the part.

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    1. Thanks Joe, these figs are easy to do little conversions too and are so versatile that it's only a little effort

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