I thought their second album (Hanging with Ma Beeches) wasn't as good at the first one (Where Ma Birches At?). Rap just isn't the musical medium for Ents, given how long it takes them just to say 'Good Morning'.....
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Back on topic:- ENTS
While each of the plastic ents is fine as an individual piece (well put together, nicely painted and based), you also varied the paint palette and foliage on each of them, and you have posed them all slightly differently, they are still very similar. It is a perennial problem for all of us that like the big woody guys. I am lucky enough to have snagged a bunch of Majestic Bear and Thomarillion large possibly wooden entities, as well as Treebeard and one of these plastics. I am thinking about adding more plastics but ONLY if I can make them very recognisably different.
Now here is the weird part. You have managed to differentiate those three even though they all come from identical kits. The differences are most notable in the finer detail (especially the colour scheme). The similarities outweigh the differences in the wider picture. In trying to figure out how to overcome that basic overall similarity, I guess that changing the silhouette of the mini becomes a fundamental part of the task. You can do that in a number of ways - in human terms, you could go for the hair-do, ie the branches with foliage. Get some of those railway scenic trees kits where you can assemble the plastic branches into any configuration you please and then apply foliage. You could have any shape of branches (fan, straight, drooping, odd-shaped like a mohawk) and vary the colour and type of foliage.
Other areas that could be targetted are the arms and legs. Shortening or lengthening them slightly, making them thicker overall or giving them a more gnarled appearance, adding some more texture to them - all these are options for anyone out there to try.
So, just a few thoughts and ideas. I know its a bit of a risk hacking up costly kits just to make them look a bit different, but there are some people on O-R who have managed far greater feats than that.
So, in short - well done on your guys (including Treebeard), and maybe you might want to try some of what I have rambled on about above if you get any more ents.
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