My campaign world has 3 separate kinds of bird folk (4 if you count Tengu who, in this world, are a mutant offshoot of one of the other ones).
Problem is, I have had a very hard time finding minis for my players who want to play those races. Feather humanoids with wings, any ideas where I can find some?
I also have a race of less-powerful musteval, which the Reaper Mouslings are absolutely wonderful/precious for, which is unfortunately what got me on this kick to try and find minis for my other players.
There are also a few DDM Kenku miniatures.
When you say, "bird folk", what exactly do you mean? Totally bird-like, similar to the kenku mentioned above? Otherwise humanish, but with wings, something like hawkman/girl?
As others have pointed out, it would be helpful to know the morphology of your bird/humanoid races. Velcro Zipper's links show humanoids with bird wings and feet, and two types of humanoids with bird heads (one with short beaks, one with long curvy beaks).
If you just need to have humanoid minis with wings, humanoid minis are prevalent so you just need the wings. There are lots of ways to get wings. You can go to Reaper and search for "wings" and get all kinds of wings that you could glue/epoxy/solder onto your minis. That would get kinda pricey if you have a couple dozen minis to make though (or more).
You could purchase bird minis at a local toy/educational supply store (like US Toy) and cut the wings off the birds and glue them onto humanoid minis (some of the linked wings might be too large for that, but there are other bird minis you can use). Or you could buy foam sheets and cut out your own bird wings to glue on the miniatures.
If you want to go the bird head route, that might be more difficult. But the basic idea of cutting bird parts off of birds and gluing them onto humanoids would still work if you could find the right size bird heads.
Or you could buy some epoxy putty and make beaks to stick on existing humanoid faces.
Thanks for your suggestions!
When you say, "bird folk", what exactly do you mean? Totally bird-like, similar to the kenku mentioned above? Otherwise humanish, but with wings, something like hawkman/girl?
Humanoid, feathered, beaked, bird-legs below the knee, wings coming off the shoulder blades sort of like an Angel (easy enough to do with attachable wings). Those crocodile games minis are awesome/very close but not feathered. The Reaper Minis birdman is terrifying, but the closest to what I'm looking for I suppose.
I had been considering the "Just add wings to a human, make a beak out of greenstuff" method and then trying to paint the feather texture on but...god I'm bad at painting.
AlchemistMerlin, you are making me think about how to frankenstein my own bird-folk...
I'm gonna see what I can come up with using the foam. Would be nice to have a bunch of feathered wings to match my bat-wings....