DarkFader Posted June 28, 2011 Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) Since I don't own the classic Santa minifigure included in such sets as the City advent calendars and because I think that minifig is a bit plain, I decided to create my own Santa Claus minifig: As you can see, this one is a bit more detailed than the official one and yet not too complicated. I hope you like it and comments are welcomed. Edited June 28, 2011 by DarkFader Quote
soc399 Posted June 28, 2011 Posted June 28, 2011 Since I don't own the classic Santa minifigure included in such sets as the City advent calendars and because I think that minifig is a bit plain, I decided to create my own Santa Claus minifig: As you can see, this one is a bit more detailed than the official one and yet not too complicated. I hope you like it and comments are welcomed. I made a similar Santa with the gnome parts, and it works great. I especially like the face you chose. Quote
Aanchir Posted June 28, 2011 Posted June 28, 2011 Very nice! A few changes I would recommend: The hands would look good in black, I think. White gloves don't really give me the right impression. If you could get one of the burglar's sacks from this year's Police sets, that'd be a great addition. You could even stick a couple 1x2 tiles in representing wrapped gifts! Great work here! I'm sure you can create a great MOC or vignette to go with him by the time the holidays roll around! Quote
DarkFader Posted June 28, 2011 Author Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) The hands would look good in black, I think. White gloves don't really give me the right impression.Before I put the minifig together I googled 'santa claus' to get some reference pictures just for the color of the hands and the results were mixed; some pics had him wearing white gloves, in others he wore black ones and in many he wore no gloves at all. At first I tried out the yellow hands but like you, they didn't give me the right impression and then I tried the white hands and I thought it looked a lot better; I will try out black ones and see how I think it fits.If you could get one of the burglar's sacks from this year's Police sets, that'd be a great addition. You could even stick a couple 1x2 tiles in representing wrapped gifts!Good suggestion; I will try to obtain one of those sacks and put some tiles in there.I'm sure you can create a great MOC or vignette to go with him by the time the holidays roll around!Those are not bad ideas at all; I'll look into it later on and see what I can do. Edited June 28, 2011 by DarkFader Quote
XimenaPaulina Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 A really well done purist custom, the gnome beard piece is much better than the one in the standard Santa fig IMO, so good call using that. Quote
Omicron Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 I love it, and with Aanchir's idea to include the backpack, makes it even better. -Omi Quote
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