[Crafts] Deadlands Miniatures
One thing I've really wanted in the Reaper line for Deadlands would be miniatures that can pass for civilians, despite the tendency for just about everyone to be armed. I found a couple of miniatures that work well for conversions to represent Victorian-era lady bystanders/noncombatants.
Reaper Savage Worlds 59009 - Mad Scientist (female) - converted
This is another "Mad Scientist (female)" mini that I picked up, specifically for conversion purposes. She's by far one of the more modest Reaper offerings, so unlike the Alice mini, no conversion was required to make her look more like a "prim and proper Victorian lady." I removed the mad-science gizmos and gave her some alternative hands. The hand holding the "lace fan" is actually from an Indy HeroClix "Tomoe" figure. The base is a resin scenic base from War Cast Studios.
For comparison, here's the miniature painted up without conversion:
... and for another possibility:
Reaper Chronoscope 50057 - Miss Scarlet, Wild West Madam
This is assembled and painted up without conversion, but I have several more "Miss Scarlets" on the worktable with left-arm swaps so I can have some Victorian-era bystanders (with a few other minor modifications to try to make the figures look a little less like clones of each other). Fortunately, the Chronoscope mini comes with the hand holding the shotgun as a separate piece, so it's very easy to make conversions. (I'm working on one holding another "Tomoe" lace fan -- fortunately the Tomoe figure has fans in BOTH HANDS -- and another holding a parasol over the shoulder rather than a shotgun.)
The base is the standard 30mm base, but I inserted some Apoxie Sculpt and made a textured "tile" pattern for visual interest.
I also painted up a couple of used Malifaux "Rotten Belle" miniatures I picked up at the game store.
I tried to paint them mostly true to the schemes displayed on the cards, but I gave them fairly normal skin tones rather than going over the top to give them unhealthy pallor and blood spatter as would be befitting zombies. I opted to make them a little more "neutral" in that regard, since these are intended for use in RPGs. By giving them slightly pale complexions (but still within human bounds), they can potentially pass for "fresh" zombies for my small horde of 19th-century walking dead ... or they could just be some ladies who have had their dresses torn up in some misadventure. The figure on the right has an expression that could just as easily represent that she's screaming at some horror just off-stage to the right, as it could be a slack-jawed zombie moan.