Monday, 29 February 2016

TWD - Glenn and Maggie

Hi all

The TWD project continues with 2 more long term characters from the TV series.


To start we have Glenn Rhee.   Glenn's voice is first heard using a radio to talk to Rick when Rick is hiding in a tank in the city of Atlanta. Glenn uses the radio to rescue Rick from the horde of walkers surrounding the tank, and guides Rick to the location of his group, which consists of AndreaT-DogMerle DixonJacqui, and Morales, hiding in a department store. Glenn is agile and quick along with a flexible but logical thought process making him ideal for foraging and scavenging in the post apocalyptic world.


I have depicted him here with his trademark baseball shirt and cap as well as the baseball bat he uses in earlier shows.  I have made him up from the now familiar WGF male survivor boxset with a simple arm swap.




Next up is Maggie, daughter of Hershal and sister to Beth. Initially, Maggie is inexperienced and ignorant of the apocalypse, being largely sheltered at the Greene family farm, but once Rick's group arrive, Maggie quickly grows into a fierce and skilled fighter, becoming proficient with weapons and participating in supply runs for the group. Maggie forms a casual relationship with Glenn after becoming aware of his crush on her, but insists it is purely a temporary arrangement, until she later realizes after a series of events that occur that she has fallen in love with him, eventually leading to their marriage. Their relationship is tested in numerous ways over the course of the series and is currently the longest lasting pairing in the show, as is Maggie's brutality and has been shown to be perfectly willing to kill people threatening the group.




Maggie is a straight up build from WGF female survivor boxset, however the trick was trying to decide how to arm her?  in the TV series she has carried just about every firearm that can be represented on the sprue.  In the end I plumped for the shotgun she has brought from the family farm. In the series she often wears her pistol holster low down on her thigh, so i did the same for her to try and bring some character out.



enjoy 
dGG


16:23 (+7)

figs bought:painted (difference)

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    1. Thanks Fran, I think I could have been a little more liberal with pics of the stunning Lauren Cohen, just to spice the post up a bit! ;-P

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  2. Great work on both of them, Andy. I think you've captured the look of them extremely well.

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    1. cheers B, the hardest part is finding the "iconic factor" something that is trademark Glenn and Maggie as they have carried just about every firearm conceivable!

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  3. Very well done, you captured the feel of Glenn and Maggie in the poses and color choices. Keep up the great work!

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    1. Thanks Steve, i appreciate that. I think I need to find/make some iconic scenery now just to compliment the minis and help to recreate some of the scenes, after all my hospital build was inspired by watching Rick's awakening in TWD episode 1.

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  4. Lovely job on both, more great creations.

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    1. Thanks sir Michael, hopefully you'll appreciate the next TWD offering too :-)

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  5. Splendid stuff Andy, love 'em. Glenn is especially stand out in my books :-)

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    1. Thanks Simon, it was fun looking through the source material for Glenn as he has grown and changed throughout the series. I might try for a fig of him in the prison riot kit at some point as well......ooh prison, now there's an idea .....

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  6. Excellent as always and yes glen is in an iconic stance. You going to play with these or are they just for show.....

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  7. Excellent as always and yes glen is in an iconic stance. You going to play with these or are they just for show.....

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    1. I think so mate, just gonna get the right scenario/setting

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  8. When I saw your title I did wonder how you would arm Maggie and I'm pleased you opted to arm her with a shotgun, for some reason I 've always imagined her with one - good touch adding the low slung holster too.
    Both these are excellent takes on everyone's favourite 'couple'.

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    1. Thanks mate yeah in the end it had to be the shotgun didn't it :-)

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  9. Nice conversions, Andy. How many of the cast are you planning on doing? As for scenery, based on the trailers I've seen, you're going to need a stretch of forested highway - which will also be useful for X-Files or Supernatural gaming... which reminds me - I still need to find Sam and Dean proxies (and Sam and Max as well!)

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    1. Cheers Jez, I have one more post to go. Saving the best for last imho. I might do some more later on but as ever I have a backlog of lead and plastic to work through. Shockingly I've not watched Supernatural much to my children's disgust so might have to borrow the daughters DVDs when she gets back from uni

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  10. Job Well done mate she looks fantastic really like the display base with the chained zed. Need some rules for that one :)

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