[Aetol Fletch]

amphibian, on 27 June 2014 - 10:11 PM, said:

The thing with lipstick is that there's a certain way Lego makes their character facial features. Unless you put on a ponytail wig or another hairstyle that's almost always on a female, it's really hard to suggest female from a non obviously female Lego head and a hairstyle common to both genders.

Look at Apsalar above. That's what I'm talking about in the second sentence. Neutral head, ponytail wig.

Too true, and on many of the male characters above I gave them female wigs (for long hair). And they still looked male. No matter what, a female character in Lego is going to have full lips and long eyelashes.

But this isn't all about staying completely true to the books. My goal is also to stay true to the spirit of Lego, which means an idealized and silly representation of what "real life" is to children (and whimsical adults).

Anyway....


Tavore, T'amber, & Lostara Yil
~ I like my Tavore minifig. I lucked out and found the perfect face for her. The hair is nice too. Also, notice her otataral sword. Heh
~ T'amber is something of a minor character, so most of her minifig is guesswork. Alas, no amber eyes, but I tried to include her "tawny mane". I do seem to remember her wielding a sword at some point or another.
~ Lostara Yil is one of my favorite female characters from the series. QUESTION: was her weapon of choice the sword or knife? It's been about a year since I read the books and I can't really remember. I know she was a Shadow Dancer so I went the assassin route and gave her knives. Also, sorry, but tattooed faces are not really a thing in Lego.

Redmask and K'ell Hunter
~ As requested, here's my Redmask minifigure. I got supremely lucky and found a sort of tribal/Amazonian face with... a red mask! I've also incorporated his sick axe and whip combo.
~ As was kindly pointed out, K'Chain Che'Malle may have been able to change color. So I changed him to blue. And articulated him a bit to make it more exciting.

[Shinrei]

Cool.

How about a group of Fists Dujek and Coltaine along with Admiral Nok?

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Well done! These are awesome!

[Spoilsport Stonny]

Oooo! Oooo! Do the Old Guard!!!

EDIT: Kallor's near-unibrow...is awesome.

EDIT EDIT: Now that you have these models, I assume you can order the actual pieces based on their LEGO part numbers and start seembling these in real life. Cuz if you do that, I will travel to your home and bestow upon you gifts of hard drugs and harder liquor and pin a green number 1 to your chest.

This post has been edited by Spoilsport Stonny: 28 June 2014 - 02:56 PM

[amphibian]

Shit, I think I've got the pieces to make an articulated K'Chain Che'Malle.

[Aetol Fletch]

Emancipor Reese, Bauchelain, & Korbal Broach
~ I'm currently reading the Bauchelain & Korbal Broach novellas, so making this trio seemed appropriate. I love Mancy's facial expression.
~ I know that Bauchelain (love the name, btw) is supposed to have grayish hair, but it didn't work with his face, which has black hair. Black looks better on him anyway, I think.
~ I struggled to find the right face for Korbal Broach (deranged eunuchs are not a Lego staple) and eventually settled on the most vanilla Lego face possible. It's more of a humorous commentary on Broach's character than anything else.

Fear, Binadas, Rhulad, & Trull Sengar
~ There are only four elf head pieces in the program, most with long elegant hair (they're from The Hobbit sets), so only Fear gets a set of elf ears.
~ The weaponry here is mostly guesswork. I can't remember which weapons Fear and Binadas favor. Rhulad's sword is obviously the one the CG makes for him. Trull of course gets a spear.
~ Rhulad post-coins is impossible to make with Lego since there are no coin-covered-person patterns available. This is Rhulad as soon as he picks up the sword.
~ I think Trull is bald when we first meet him, but he looks so much more imposing with his tribal-ish ponytail.

[James Hutton]

Aetol Fletch, on 29 June 2014 - 11:37 PM, said:

~ I think Trull is bald when we first meet him, but he looks so much more imposing with his tribal-ish ponytail.

Trull's indeed bald the first time we meet him (Prologue HoC), where his hair is shaved off as part of the shorning (outcasting). When we meet him in MT, i.e. chronologically earlier, his hair is not described AFAIK, but since it's shaved off during the shorning, he must have had some. Though the tribal-ish ponytail is not how I picture him. Which doesn't say anything.

This post has been edited by James Hutton: 01 July 2014 - 03:43 PM

[Isa]

These are so awesome!