Explorers

Some more heroes from Pulp Figures, ready for adventures at the poles and in the mountains.

My plan for their first adventure is to search for the Yeti in the Himalayas so I've given them all names of individuals connected with that effort.

Charles Howard-Bury - explorer and politician who led a British expedition to Mount Everest. He spotted some large footprints and was told that they belonged to "metoh-kangmi". This means something like "man-bear snow-man".  When the expedition returned, a journalist called Henry Newman interviewed some of the members. However, he first mistranslated "metoh" as "filthy", then decided that "abominable" was even better, and his term "the abominable snowman" has endured. (1921)

Bill Tilman - Major Harold William Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC and Bar, (14 February 1898 – 1977) was an English mountaineer and explorer, renowned for his Himalayan climbs and sailing voyages.  Wrote a key book on Mount Everest containing an appendix on the Yeti (1938) 

Eric Shipton - a British explorer named looking for an alternative route up Mt. Everest found a footprint that appeared to be hominoid. He took a picture, and the mystery of the Yeti — a Sherpa word for “wild man” — cast a spell over the world.  (1951) (I'm using the name Erica Shipton for the female figure).

Khumjo Chumbi - a village headman who brought a supposed Yeti scalp from the Khumjung monastery back to London following Sir Edmund Hillary's Silver Hut expedition to the Himalayas, which was to collect and analyse physical evidence of the Yeti (1960)

Reinhold Messner - a mountaineer who is perhaps the most famous Yeti-hunter of all. He claims to have seen one in the Himalayas in the 1980s, allegedly even claiming to have killed one, and returned dozens of times to get to the bottom of the mystery. (1986)

I used the bicarbonate of soda mixed with watered PVA trick for the snow again and am really pleased with the results, especially after dusting with bicarb before the mixture fully sets for a nice textured surface.

I've also painted up some wolves from Andy - some based on snow for the next adventure, some based on grass ready to be supporting characters for a future werewolf adventure.