Baldur's Gate NPCs Minsc and Boo video - two revolutions on turntable for six displays of weapons

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[Nyhargo Dirge]

That's really cool

 

[Burnside]

It's great to see someone doing pc classics justice.

Big fan.

 

[Bravomite]

That's so cool! Brilliant figure and good attention to detail. The use of the music from the game brings back some fond memories. Minsc and Boo stand ready!

If you are making other figures from the game I would be interested, particularly Sarevok and Imoen (I'd love to recreate my party from the original game, Gorion's Ward, Imoen, Minsc, Khalid, Jaheira and Dynaheir). I had a fondness for Kivan and Edwin as well.

Who were your 5 original / default companions and what portrait, character class and name did you go with for your Gorion's Ward?

 

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That's so cool! Brilliant figure and good attention to detail. The use of the music from the game brings back some fond memories. Minsc and Boo stand ready!

If you are making other figures from the game I would be interested, particularly Sarevok and Imoen (I'd love to recreate my party from the original game, Gorion's Ward, Imoen, Minsc, Khalid, Jaheira and Dynaheir). I had a fondness for Kivan and Edwin as well.

Who were your 5 original / default companions and what portrait, character class and name did you go with for your Gorion's Ward?

Thanks! My initial thought was to make the canon BG1 party, namely player character (more on that below), Imoen (BG1 portrait), Jaehira, Khalid, Minsc, and Dynaheir. But I might end up revising that lineup to have the most popular characters for display. I have my own favorites for the game over the year, but for display purposes I may want to pick the ones that translate best for that.

Imoen will definitely be next.

Sarevok would be amazing. I'm sure I'll make him eventually. IIRC in-game he is described as nearly seven feet tall. There's a Phicen for a body that size but obviously it would be all about his armor, and with two head sculpts, both helmeted and using the BG2 portrait.

The PC will be a half-elf Fighter-Mage who I did my very first playthrough with. As it turns out I did end up liking the F-M class the best of all, probably. I'm going to use some photos of me in my early 20s for the head sculpt.

 

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Some poses with weapons that are a bit more dynamic. Still nervous about posing without the crotchgrabber stand but to get the best poses I’m going to have to try that eventually. I’m using a Phicen TBLeague M-34 body so the articulation is great.

 

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Here’s more pics from the above shoot (via iPhone 11, ugh, but that’s what I’ve got to work with for now) presented in a video slideshow style:



I’m still working on getting the lighting right for videoing using the turntable. I’m going to try just a simple dark charcoal gray poster board background with the natural light from window situated behind the camera rather than in front of it, lol.

But the box I made for photographing the figure I’m pretty happy with, actually.

 

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That's so cool! Brilliant figure and good attention to detail. The use of the music from the game brings back some fond memories. Minsc and Boo stand ready!

If you are making other figures from the game I would be interested, particularly Sarevok and Imoen (I'd love to recreate my party from the original game, Gorion's Ward, Imoen, Minsc, Khalid, Jaheira and Dynaheir). I had a fondness for Kivan and Edwin as well.

Who were your 5 original / default companions and what portrait, character class and name did you go with for your Gorion's Ward?

Oh to answer that last question about party for the first playthrough, for the very first game I ever completed (after getting killed immediately in the first map and the next one with a pure mage a couple times) I created my own custom party. I had read a lot of reviews and learned that you could create a custom party (like IWD) in multiplayer mode. Having never played a CRPG before I thought that might be more fun than using NPCs.

The PC I’ve already described above. I think for the other party members I made a pure mage, dwarven fighter, halfling pure thief, elven cleric-mage, and multiclass fighter-thief. For the latter I changed the sprite to human using an editor. It was a total blast but I missed all the dialogue from the NPCs and of course their amazing personalities, etc.

What was your first party composition? Do you remember? Haha, such a long time ago probably.

 

[Bravomite]

Thanks for your replies an updates.

Well for some unknown reason I’ve always always played with exactly the same character as Gorion’s ward for all my many play throughs. He is basically a Conan clone called Valmond. He is fighter (because you know he is a barbarian) and he has the highest strength stats you can get which I think were 18/00 and then whatever else I rolled would be thrown into the others (at the expense of wisdom, he never had any wisdom haha). He always had the same portrait, as shown below (and once I had the gold and shell, he was fitted out in green ankheg armour):

Imoen was always first and then we would head south to get some xp and join up with Kivan for a bit. Khalid and Jaheira were always in the team. Xan would join up at the mines and would always end up dying (he was a weak mage). Kivan would leave and then Minsc and Edwin would join because I liked their story and how they had the diametrically opposed goals. We would rescue Dynaheir at some point and Minsc (with our help) would battle Edwin. Accidentally I think I would then typically play through with the 'cannon' team - very rarely deviating from it. Imoen as thief and ranged attacks if needed, Minsc as a berserker (second sword in the fight), Khalid with ranged and but also could switch to close combat, Jaheria effectively as the cleric and then Dynaheir as the mage.

It was devastating when you get to the second game to find out that Khalid and Dynaheir were killed haha! So much fun though. I actually want to find another way to play it through. I still have the original 5 disc set with map.

I didn't even know you could play with completely customised characters. How narrow my game play was haha.

Well if you go on to create any other custom figures from the game and don't mind sharing the costs of the sculpts etc. send me a message as I would be keen. If you have a spare and Minsc and Boo sculpt please let me know as I'd love to purchase one from you.