Need help finding a feral human mini

[Drizzt1080]

My group is about to start a new campaign in a few weeks, so I have been researching possible minis for each of the players. Finding a suitable mini for one of the characters is proving to be difficult. The player hasn’t made a final decision on race. He will most likely be human, but hasn't ruled out dwarf or half-orc.

The character is a male bear totem druid/barbarian using natural bite and claw attacks. He is using leather armor or breastplate.

I’m looking for something similar to Space Wolves or D&D Shifter overall look. I'd like to stick to an unpainted metal mini. The problem I’m finding is the only minis I’m finding with claws are a few vampire minis with the fangs/claws but they don’t have the proper outfits or lycanthropes.

[Sean K Reynolds]

Using Reaper's figure finder, here are several "unarmed burly guy" minis:

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four

Also check out their ghasts, they're muscular brutes, which may work for you if you do a head swap.

[DeathQuaker]

Drizzt1080 wrote:

My group is about to start a new campaign in a few weeks, so I have been researching possible minis for each of the players. Finding a suitable mini for one of the characters is proving to be difficult. The player hasn’t made a final decision on race. He will most likely be human, but hasn't ruled out dwarf or half-orc.

The character is a male bear totem druid/barbarian using natural bite and claw attacks. He is using leather armor or breastplate.

I’m looking for something similar to Space Wolves or D&D Shifter overall look. I'd like to stick to an unpainted metal mini. The problem I’m finding is the only minis I’m finding with claws are a few vampire minis with the fangs/claws but they don’t have the proper outfits or lycanthropes.

The best I could find is this, although he isn't armored enough (though you could give him a leather shirt by smoothing over his front with green stuff):

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Reven/latest/14132

I can't tell for sure if he has claws, but as he is part of the Warlord Reven army, he probably does.

Otherwise, my thought is for the easiest approach, use an unarmed figure like Sean Reynolds found, or use a barbarian-ish figure where the weapons can be easily removed. No, there won't be claws or fangs, but it could still evoke the right feel hopefully.

Some armored, wild-man looking models I found--but you'd have to cut and file off the weapons carefully:

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/male%20barbarian/sku-down/14562
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/male%20barbarian/sku-down/14610
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/male%20barbarian/sku-down/03461#detai l/IG_536_1 (he's actually not wearing much armor, but he's cool looking)
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/male%20barbarian/sku-down/03397 (this is my personal favorite)
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/male%20barbarian/sku-down/02879

If you are willing to convert, or find/hire someone willing to do it for you, you/your friend could buy this creature parts pack or just its Claw sprue from the Boneyard, and cut off the model of your choice's hands, replacing with the claws. That will take some pinning and smoothing with greenstuff, most likely. If you/your friend/someone you know is comfortable with greenstuff, you might also just be able to add a few claws on the fisted models.

Another thought I had was look for paranormal miniature lines like the Call of Cthulhu miniatures, where you might find some kind of man-beast figure that might be suitable, but will not be armored or otherwise look very barbarian-ish, probably.

[Cornielius]

I had some good luck combining Skaven and human parts from the Mordheim box from Games Workshop.
Pricey for the whole box, but someone local to you may still have the sprues. (You can ask around at the local gamestore.)
There were some nice bearded heads in the set and the skaven bodies worked for crouching humans (though not burly crouching humans).
There were Skaven hands with claw weapons, but the Skaven were not clawed. (Rat ogre arms may work better on a human torso like those DeathQuaker showed you.)

[Patrik Ström]

These are some that might work.

Viking beserker champions from Foundry Miniatures. They're all armed though.

The barbarian standard bearer on the middle of the page (ref: 1006) from em4miniatures.com.

TwoBears Keeper of the Speaking Stones from red-box-miniatures.

Lidd youngblood or Lidd hunter from Dwarf Tales miniatures. The legs of the second one might be a problem though.

Lorian from Tale of War miniatures. Although not that barbarian looking.

Magne - Berserker of the Bear (ref RHM3002) from Rusted Heroes.

Some of these are 32mm scale miniatures.

[Drizzt1080]

Thanks for the links. Reaper is usually my first stop for shopping for minis, so I know their entire line extremely well. If they don’t have it then I’ll resort to searching GW or Privateer Press. After that I try to find whatever google will dig up on the internet. This is the first time I haven’t been able to find a mini that fit my needs. The Magne mini Patrik linked is the closest fit. My only problem is the wolverine claws on the shields.

Now my local game store doesn’t stock a huge selection of minis outside of Warmachine. I usually have to special order whatever reaper stuff I need. This leads to the problem of finding compatible minis and donor parts for conversions. I really don’t want $20 worth of parts to make one mini, since I can’t compare the compatibility of the parts in person.

This is the first time I’ve had trouble finding/converting a mini that wasn’t 80-90% WYSIWYG. This is turning into a pain in the butt. Maybe I’ll luck out and he’ll switch character concepts before we start.