Creole Guide

Just finished up this tremendous figure from Thunderbird Historical Miniatures; it’s a slight conversion from the original release. The figure is cast in gray resin and comes in eight pieces. Each piece is cast wonderfully. Clean up is minimal, and there are a few seam lines, and they are so faint that they can be easily missed on each of the arms.

I wanted to make this a more “original” figure, and after reading Mark’s article (www.qtm-magazine.it/guidacreola.htm) I decided to go with a swampier feel to the figure. I cut off the moccasins and replaced them with bare feet from the Historex line, and instead of having the rifle over his right shoulder, I replaced the hand and rifle with a spare hand with a cigarette from the spares box.

He’s painted with artist oils over an acrylic base in my traditional manner of wet on wet.

This is my first figure from Thunderbird Historical Miniatures, and am looking forward to many more….