{"id":1059,"date":"2017-12-24T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2017-12-24T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T18:43:43","slug":"mermaid-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2017\/12\/24\/mermaid-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2015, I went looking for a Mermaid miniature for my wife to use in the <a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/tag\/brokencovenant\/\">Broken Covenant<\/a> campaign. Um. Yeah. It was quite challenging to find a clothed Mermaid miniature&#8230;much less one that looked cool&#8230; Fortunately\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkswordminiatures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dark Sword Miniatures<\/a>\u00a0came to the rescue with their excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkswordminiatures.com\/shop\/index.php\/miniatures\/elmore-masterworks\/mermaid-warrior.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mermaid Warrior<\/a>!<a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2017\/12\/24\/mermaid-warrior\/mermaidwarrior_front-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1063\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Front-1-960x540.jpg\" alt=\"The Mermaid Warrior from Dark Sword Miniatures\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Front-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Front-1-595x335.jpg 595w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Front-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Front-1-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a great sculpt to paint, lots of details and character &#8211; it did cost more than the standard pewter miniature but worth the cost for a hard to find character type. The coral sword, turtle shield\/shoulderpads, and shell armor all really establish this miniature as a character.<a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2017\/12\/24\/mermaid-warrior\/mermaidwarrior_back-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1062\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Back-1-960x540.jpg\" alt=\"The Mermaid Warrior from Dark Sword Miniatures viewed from behind\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Back-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Back-1-595x335.jpg 595w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Back-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Back-1-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My wife&#8217;s character was the guardian of a coral reef so I tried to incorporate that kind of color scheme. I think this is the best facial detailing I&#8217;ve done to date&#8230;which is gratifying (because your spouse&#8217;s miniature is the one to get right) and frustrating (because it felt like random luck rather something I controlled).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2015, I went looking for a Mermaid miniature for my wife to use in the Broken Covenant campaign. Um. Yeah. It was quite challenging to find a clothed Mermaid miniature&#8230;much less one that looked cool&#8230; Fortunately\u00a0Dark Sword Miniatures\u00a0came to the rescue with their excellent Mermaid Warrior! This was a great sculpt to paint,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2017\/12\/24\/mermaid-warrior\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,54],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minis","tag-brokencovenant","tag-dark-sword-miniatures","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MermaidWarrior_Front-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aZ1W-h5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}