Mad Bodgin’ Mage Log: White Mage’s Creed

In this log, we are going over the bodge of my second unit of Kayazy Eliminators:



Here’s a shot of the old ones:





Basically, I gave them a haircut, a scarf, and I gave one of them different legs.

They wreaked havoc during one of my previous games, so I got a second set. I wanted to make this new unit different from them, however, and I had recently been playing Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag. One fact that I’ve always found hilarious, is that Final Fantasy’s White Mages, and the Assassins in Assassin’s Creed, apparently shop at the same clothing store:

The idea of a White Mage going against type and backstabbing people amuses me, so, this was the plan:



“Isn’t, I don’t know…. HEALING PEOPLE your thing? Why does that man have no spleen?!”

” He’s a witness.”

“…”

In a way, I think this makes the AC Assassins make more sense. It’s a cover identity, giving them a modicum of blanket trust, allowing them greater access to people, and restricted areas. I never understood why assassins had a uniform in the first place (besides badassery). The moment anyone sees a dude in a pretty, white, hooded uniform, things would go to hell pretty much immediately.

So with that said, on with the bodge.

To start, we chopped up these two:



I participated in the WM: Tactics Kickstarter, and pledged enough to get the figs so I could have more bits for the workshop. I grabbed the general release fig as well, so that these two Eliminators would match.

Here’s how the first one’s bits came together:



I was a little worried about the proportions on this one. This Elara is slighty bigger than the Eliminator models.

The second one seemed to fit together a bit better:



Then it was time for greenstuff:





Once they got their hoods and cloaks, it helped make the bodge of the figs less obvious.

Then, it was time for painting:

Eliminator #1



Eliminator #2



Now before we close off this log, after I painted these two I figured I’d go back and touch up another assassin/White Mage:



When I got this fig years ago I accidentally damaged the face to the point where it wasn’t salvageable. I had replaced the head, only to find it slightly too big. So I replaced it again, and the head was STILL to big, but it wasn’t TOO bad, so it stayed for a few years.

Now, however, I happened to have an even smaller head on hand, and figured 3rd time’s the charm:

After I transferred her to a new base, I had to re-sculpt part of the hood.

It was at this point I managed to stab myself with both ends of the same tool at the same time… -_-



It slipped out of my hand, and I made a swipe to catch it… only to stick the needle end into the side of my thigh and the flat edge into my palm. I had to pull it out afterward. It was in there good.

Anyway…

After I stopped the bleeding, I finished up the paint job:



If there’s any question about why she carries a hammer, she was part of an “8-Bit Theater” themed force I built once. It had Law Ninja and everything.

With that, I think we can finish this:





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