Cry Havoc My Mighty Monkey!

Looking over the progression of miniature work with a jungle theme I’ve just been going bigger and bigger. Its been a long standing idea in my head to go ahead and use Kabaka K’wana from Reaper miniatures (03052) as a way to create and play about from an original transfer sheet for a Magic the Gathering card Gorilla War Cry that I purchased from the artist at a comic convention long long ago.

I’ve seen the price for the figure rise with the cost of tin on the global market triple and the prices for this figure went well beyond what I wanted to pay. When Reaper dropped prices for production with their P-65 release I thought that it might be time to buy. Feeling exactly how weighty the figures were of this material I thought better of it and set it on the back burner. Now in the age of Reaper Bones I held out hope but, sadly, have yet to see any material success of having one big badass ape on the tabletop in such an impressive stance.

I’ve delved back into the Internet to try and find other who’ve messed around with this figure and have managed to get a few hits with some other hobbyists pages (those perhaps not yet Cult of Games members) and an old announcement of someone selling off their copy on eBay. Links to give some traffic to others that might well enjoy the increase in traffic.

Geek Rampage – Christian Conkle hobby blog – good heads up that the figure will have significant gaps (aside from the reaper site photo)

Eclectic Gentleman Tabletop Gamer – good info for scale of the base that I’ll need and quality shots of the finished model

Worthpoint eBay sale – interesting for the modified pose of the right arm

Searching the likes of Thingiverse and Shapeways has yielded no love for great gaming apes as I can only seem to get 40K Silverbacks. Are those actually a chapter? *shrug* No matter. The whimsical world of the Internet can provide abundance or scant little.

From this I look to the history of videogames and recall Primal Rage with its chief characters of Chaos and Blizzard. I remember Chaos primarily as he’s been the only character in a fighting game that I’ve seen openly vomit or urinate on his opponent. Ahh, the good old days when Mortal Kombat’s Fatality moves were so scandalous that they prompted discussions and debate about the morality of gaming. Nostalgia aside I think that there might be merit in Chaos as inspiration for brutal humor of some sort in the future with another project.