The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[eilif]

That's an awful waste of zombies if you ask me. 

I think the zombies are one of the coolest things about the model.  I really like the zombie limb-parts and the faces is pretty cool.  The sculpting of the body and the blood bottles just don't translate to being 28mm scale though.  At first glance it looked more like a human sized costume. 

[nic-e]

Well, this is for sale...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Giant-Chaos-daemon-with-over-800-mantic-zombies-and-undead-Bigger-than-a-titan-/331414659209?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item4d29da6089

WOW!!!!

HOLY F*CK!! I saw that thing earlier in the year when i went to my universities degree show! this was in the tech arts studio, and i instantly started picking out what ranges the miniatures had come from. It is very well made as far as i remember, but it's so strange seeing it up for sale as a miniature when it was presented as a screen prop.

(sadly i can't name the artists since i'm a sculpture student not tech arts, but i can ask around or look for his business card if anyone wants.)

[Cubs]

What a great imaginative piece.

If you're peddling it as a 28mm scale model though, you're bound to look at the bottles and wonder who on earth made them.

[nic-e]

its a final year art piece as it says on the blurb.Honestly

I recently graduated from university having done a sculpting, holding and casting course. The piece on sale here is the culmination of my final year project.

personally I think he would have done better through a gallery pushing it as art and not bothering with the minis angle. but good on him for trying all sorts of ways to sell it.

I think he'll struggle either way, galleries in this country teems to lean towards the conceptual or the highly marketable .

[Momotaro]

Now I have visions of the art critic Brian Sewell discussing the relative merits of deep-striking vs Land-Raider terminators.  Although he looks more of an Eldar player.

He should SO do a Youtube series on the aeesthtics of different armies... "The Tyranid, both nurturing womb and devouring maw - the ultimate expression of vagina dentata...".

[Argonor]

I think the zombies are one of the coolest things about the model.  I really like the zombie limb-parts and the faces is pretty cool.  The sculpting of the body and the blood bottles just don't translate to being 28mm scale though.  At first glance it looked more like a human sized costume. 

Definitely, but imagine what you could do with 800 zeds on the table instead of glued to an oversized tree-trunk-statue-thingy.

I'm a gamer, and to me that piece is neither very pretty, nor very useful. Thus a waste of good wargaming material.

[Constable Bertrand]

Dude! It's bigger than an industrial vacumm, it's human sized!!! what table would it fit on??? what armies would take it on?... Goodness that's a big bertha. 

Pretty sweet finish though as a sculpture. But not my cup of tea.

Cheers
Matt.

[nic-e]

Dude! It's bigger than an industrial vacumm, it's human sized!!! what table would it fit on??? what armies would take it on?... Goodness that's a big bertha. 

Pretty sweet finish though as a sculpture. But not my cup of tea.

Cheers
Matt.

the vacums in that studio are rather small, since it's sort of a hodge podge studio put together from old stuff , the piece as far as I remember is about 60cm in height.
I imagine if he sent images to mantic they'd happily promote his work.

[Argonor]

this is so wonderfully hank hill.

No, it's not, just seen from a gaming perspective. 

[nic-e]

thats what makes it hank hill. The steadfast practical perspective.

think of all the propane that money could buy.

[Argonor]

thats what makes it hank hill. The steadfast practical perspective.

OK, if you say so - can't say I have watched that show a whole lot. 

[Vermis]

Ah like wargamin' and wargamin' accessories, Ah tell ya what.

TBH, I kinda agree with you, though. Nice job on gluing some mass-produced models together and painting them red, but... now what? Too big to game with and not pretty enough to display. (IMO Not fussed about the facial crudity, not at that size) Personally I think that's a button in the back of the male brain that gets a lot of such models sold: some iffy design or questionable sculpting, but boy howdy is it big...

[nic-e]

TBH, I kinda agree with you, though. Nice job on gluing some mass-produced models together and painting them red, but... now what? Too big to game with and not pretty enough to display. (IMO Not fussed about the facial crudity, not at that size) Personally I think that's a button in the back of the male brain that gets a lot of such models sold: some iffy design or questionable sculpting, but boy howdy is it big...

you should hang around a fine art sculpture studio , assemblage of mass produced objects is the go to for most, including the tutors.....

[Tactalvanic]

It's alright for something probably, I am sure someone will think of what it is eventually, other than it's primary function of getting through and passing his course, of course.

Thats a lot of work nevertheless.

But its not made of GW zombies

And more importantly, its not OOP 

And more, more importantly, skull count looks a bit low.

[YPU]

I imagine if he sent images to mantic they'd happily promote his work.

They featured it on facebook already.

The fact alone we pretty much filled a page with discussion on the thing means he has probably succeeded from an art point of view, if not the war gaming one. Getting anyone to notice your graduate work as an art student is pretty tough far as I know. So good on him. But I'm not interested in fielding it any time soon either.