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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Doc Twilight on April 08, 2009, 10:56:55 PM
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Hello, everyone.
Very excited to share this piece, the third in James Van Schaik's series for my upcoming "Champions of History" range. He can be used in a wide variety of adventures, but I suspect is best "classified" to the Victorian Science-Fiction and Pulp genres, since the man himself lived through both periods.
I am happy and most honored to present to you a personal hero of mine, finally available in miniature form, and holding some sort of strange device, as befits him.
Nikola, The Inventor! (Or, in other words, Nikola Tesla)
(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/Mithras77/RIMG1885.jpg)
(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/Mithras77/RIMG1886.jpg)
(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/Mithras77/RIMG1889.jpg)
(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/Mithras77/RIMG1888.jpg)
(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/Mithras77/RIMG1887.jpg)
Hope to have him available soon.
-Doc
www.blackarmyproductions.com
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Wow! Another great figure!
Can't wait until you are fully up and running!
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Yes, I like that. Coming along nicely, looks like you will be getting some of my hard earned cash.
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Lovely!
Thats 3 fantastic greens.
Cant wait for these to be available, and looking forward to seeing more greens as well. :)
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Oh yes, he is very nice. I can see alot of uses for him within the VSF world.
He has a definate Victorian Gentleman look about him. :)
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Nice!
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Most excellent Doc, I may have to finally make an order accross the pond at this rate!
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Oh now he's excellent.
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:-*
...and as soon as I can stop drooling over Tesla, I'd like to say what fantastic quality all three sculpts are so far...
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Excellent work. Any chance you'll have any at Kublacon?
Unfortunately I'm running games the same time as your demos, but I'll be certain to come over and check it out.
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Thouroughly impressed! He is excellent as a VSF villain:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GG9BNVJKL._SS500_.jpg)
Or as a hero
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ebb4woLML._SS500_.jpg)
He showed up in a recent episode of the Murdoch Mysteries as well. Well done!
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Hopefully not taking anything away from this thread and the wonderful sculpt, I just thought that the "five fists" cover looked like my sort of thing and hopped over to Amazon - ?84.00 :o
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Hopefully not taking anything away from this thread and the wonderful sculpt, I just thought that the "five fists" cover looked like my sort of thing and hopped over to Amazon - ?84.00 :o
Ouch :o I was thinking exactly the same thing until I saw that price. :(
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We need some 'Tesla Girls', too. Get the reference? ;)
His right hand looks just a bit 'crippled' to me - is that on purpose (do not know anything about him)?
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Hopefully not taking anything away from this thread and the wonderful sculpt, I just thought that the "five fists" cover looked like my sort of thing and hopped over to Amazon - ?84.00 :o
Ouch :o I was thinking exactly the same thing until I saw that price. :(
It was excellent, although the price? My goodness. I borrowed my friends, and it was a fun read. Not an ?84.00 read though. Mark Twain and Tesla taking on Edison and his Satanic minions..... Only in VSF.
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Corto Maltese books go for that kind of silly money on Amazon. I've got Corto Maltese in Africa, bought it from a Nostalgia and Comics bargain bin for about 50p, fifteen or so years ago. It's currently ?148 on Amazon.co.uk.
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Hopefully not taking anything away from this thread and the wonderful sculpt, I just thought that the "five fists" cover looked like my sort of thing and hopped over to Amazon - ?84.00 :o
...or go to your local Waterstone's - they should be able to get it from bertrams, or stock transferred from another branch... ideally not branch 732 though, otherwise I'd have nothing to sell...
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I found it on PLAY for ?56....... although Play itself has it listed at ?7.99 however given the lead time I'm expecting an email saying they can't get it. Figured it was worth a try though.
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Hello, all,
Very grateful that all of you like him. I was very excited to share him with you, and I can see it was well placed. He's definitely one of my personal heroes. And I'm -certain- Edison had some sort of pact with the Devil, the dirty rotter;)
Anyway, in answer to some of your questions (sorry if I miss anything), no, there's nothing wrong with his hand. I suspect it's a trick of the photo, and the fact that it's folded against his back. He was originally sculpted with his hand on his temple, a favorite pose in his photographs, but I didn't feel it looked "right" in the standing position. Keep in mind that, as with the other figures, he will loose some of his mass when molded/cast, so things are a tiny bit exaggerated. I suspect that once Tesla's been through the molding process, the hand'll look a lot more natural to you.
Tesla girls. I just looked them up, and saw a video best left forgotten in the pages of my childhood;)
As for Kublacon, it's likely that they won't be available by then, sorry:( They haven't been molded yet, and there are several in the Shanghai range that aren't yet complete, so it's probably not realistic to hope that they'll be molded and ready to go by the end of May. If, however, they are, I will bring a supply of whatever I can scrounge with me. Like I said earlier, the goal is to get them into production at some point this summer. Hopefully that'll work. But at the very least, it should only be a few months (And I know, to a wargamer, that's like a decade, believe me).
At the moment, I unfortunately have been outbid on that other figure I was talking about (Golgo Island got him), but we will still have
approximately thirteen to come. Depending upon what the casting/molding costs look like, I might commission a couple more, too, but nothing solid on that yet. That might include those dogs I was talking about. Will really have to wait and see.
I am considering adding vehicles to the range in the future (basically the Champions of History concept, but in vehicle form), but they will more than likely -not- show up in this particular wave. I still need to find someone who'll do vehicles, and they tend to cost a bit more to commission than your average 28mm figure. On the other hand, one only needs to commission one or two of them, rather than an assortment of poses.
Oh, and Bob, as for ordering across the pond, I'm sure we can work something out;)
-Doc
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I have the book (but I do not know the cost, it was a gift) and its lovely.
I second the rest requests/comments about the Tesla girls!
I also noticed some very nice figures like the armoured one etc.
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Anyway, in answer to some of your questions (sorry if I miss anything), no, there's nothing wrong with his hand. I suspect it's a trick of the photo, and the fact that it's folded against his back. He was originally sculpted with his hand on his temple, a favorite pose in his photographs, but I didn't feel it looked "right" in the standing position. Keep in mind that, as with the other figures, he will loose some of his mass when molded/cast, so things are a tiny bit exaggerated. I suspect that once Tesla's been through the molding process, the hand'll look a lot more natural to you.
OK, might be the angle/lighting/somewhat... nice mini, anyway :)
Tesla girls. I just looked them up, and saw a video best left forgotten in the pages of my childhood;)
Hmmm... can't remember that video, but I'll look it up, now ;)
I am considering adding vehicles to the range in the future (basically the Champions of History concept, but in vehicle form), but they will more than likely -not- show up in this particular wave. I still need to find someone who'll do vehicles, and they tend to cost a bit more to commission than your average 28mm figure. On the other hand, one only needs to commission one or two of them, rather than an assortment of poses.
Sounds promising to me....
EDIT:
Watched the video.
I still think that if one uses him as a VSF or Pulp villainous master mind, he needs some female lab assistants >:D
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Awesome! How does he scale up to other ranges?
You know what would be cool? Tesla Troopers (as seen in Red Alert 2)...
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Awesome! How does he scale up to other ranges?
You know what would be cool? Tesla Troopers (as seen in Red Alert 2)...
He's sculpted to be approximately 28mm, so he should scale up well with Pulp, Brigade, etc. When I have him physically in my hands I can give you a more precise measurement, but the general idea is to make these as close to 28mm as possible, allowing for natural variations in height, etc.
-Doc