A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
Creating my own minis 2: Sy Snootles
For a challenge revolving around the theme ‘music’, I decided to counter the knee-jerk submissions of unit musicians, noise marines and the like with something out of left field, but very, very close to the challenge’s theme:
Sy Snootles, the singer of the Max Reebo Band in Jabba’s palace, who we also see as a younger version as a back-stabbing diva in the excellent Clone Wars animated show.
I’m pretty sure there are options to simply 3D-print her and then paint her, but how boring is that? No, I wanted to create her the way even digital characters like in the show I mentioned are created to give them life and character: Sculpt them physically.
So, I saved a whole bunch of different reference images and had to decide on which version of her I wanted to go for, because there are three: The original puppet, the Special Edition cgi-character which is different in some details, and the character from the animated show. I decided to go for a combination of all three, and focus on aspects of the animated show, because in that show she had character and attitude. So, I grabbed GreenStuff, sculpting tools, wire, some plastic, and started sculpting away:
And here’s the painted mini:
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