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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Captain Blood on 09 May 2011, 11:32:08 PM
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...having just taken an early bath from Steve Dean's latest painting competition... ::)
1/48th scale figures (30mm) by Tom Meier. Painted by moi.
(And yes, I've already been told the heads on the war clubs are wrong ;))
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/8/577_10_05_11_12_22_27_1.jpg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/8/577_10_05_11_12_22_27_0.jpg)
And in gratuitous close-up...
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/8/577_10_05_11_12_22_27_2.jpg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/8/577_10_05_11_12_22_27_3.jpg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/8/577_10_05_11_12_22_27_4.jpg)
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:o Wowzer! :o
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Agreed - what more can be said. Wowzer again! :o :o
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Wonderful figures and amazing paint jobs...quite a combo!
Blue
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Excellent! Made me shift my Conquest woodlands further up the painting queue :-*
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Lovely,the fleshtones are fab....I could start raving about how much I like these.....so I'll shut up ;)
PS and the wife likes them too :)
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Astonishing, no words :-* :-* :-*
paint is out of this world,
but also the figure are wonderful.
I try to buy some years ago but never on sale.
how do you buy them Captain Blood?
Piero
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Most Impressive. I am looking forward to that game even more now ;)
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I really like your 17th century stuff, its allways good painted and well presented. Now, you come with these, and I am not even that interested in indian stuff, and you bring beutiful figures, really beutifully painted.
Hehe, its a good feeling though, since it was a while since I had that really overwhelming feeling of being impressed! :)
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Thank you :)
I try to buy some years ago but never on sale.
how do you buy them Captain Blood?
Piero
Direct from Thunderbolt Mountain in the USA. https://www.thunderboltmountain.com/index.php?cPath=37&osCsid=7d764e80bf22b60abad61a759b34f91e
They aren't cheap though! ;)
Here are a couple more I showed here a while back...
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/7/577_04_11_10_8_48_17_1.jpg)
Most Impressive. I am looking forward to that game even more now ;)
Oh yes. Well we'd better sort out a date :)
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Simply splendid. 8)
They're great sculpts, aren't they? Goes to show the bizarre proportions you get in smaller-scaled minis.
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Lovely paint jobs :-* :-* :-*
Simply splendid. 8)
They're great sculpts, aren't they? Goes to show the bizarre proportions you get in smaller-scaled minis.
Its weird I know but I don't like the sculpts :o
They look too skinny.
I know they are probably more realistic than our normal figures, in proportions, but I guess I have just got used to 28 mm.
Sorry :(
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Ok, Mr. Blood, with this paintjob you win the 5th season of the lead-painters-league. simply the best...
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Eh, yet more mediocre rank-and-file stuff from the Captain...
;)
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Hi,
wonderful sculpts. I like this period and finally I know with which miniatures I want to start it.
Your painting on those figs is the best painting I´ve seen from you so far. But I guess I always say that when I see new art creations from you Mr Richard Brushhands ;)
with compliments
Björn
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Yeah I suppose they are ok, not bad for a beginner anyway.
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
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Thank you gentlemen und herren ;)
You are too kind, truthfully.
Its weird I know but I don't like the sculpts :o
They look too skinny.
I know they are probably more realistic than our normal figures, in proportions, but I guess I have just got used to 28 mm.
Sorry :(
No need to apologise Colin. You're not alone in that view... Tom Meier is on record as saying how much he dislikes the orthodoxy that has led to most wargames figures looking like munchkins. As an artist (most definitely how he sees himself) he clearly believes that the natural shape of human beings is tall and skinny, not short and dumpy (he clearly hasn't been to many British wargames shows ;))
In correcting what he sees as the munchkin-aberration tendency, I suspect he's swung the pendulum just a bit too far the other way. These figures really are uber-skinny and tall beyond willowy... Kind of anorexic-chic...
Then again, maybe that's what people are like in their natural, unfattened state in the wild... ::)
Plus, he usually sculpts elves - and we all know what they're supposed to look like stature-wise, in the received kultur...
So I totally appreciate these aren't to everybody's taste :)
By the way, they're not actuall very different from 28mm, as this photo demonstrates:
L to R: Front Rank, Galloping Major, Thunderbolt Mountain, and Redoubt...
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/7/577_05_11_10_4_07_14.JPG)
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:o :o
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X-rated material that surely violates the terms and conditions of this forum. Very, very, very naughty...
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I find my self coming back to this thread all the time, the miniatures are really impressive. Thank you very much for sharing this :)
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Great stuff, you paint brilliantly,
what I just can't believe is that they took an early bath from that competition, what did they lose against, still can't believe it
you was robbed
dodge
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Lovely paint on lovely minis....size compo shot with the other manufacturers is very useful 8)
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Well, they are not the models we are used to see, but they are very good ones; I think not all the indians were muscle men with plumes, and I like specially the french soldier; I expect to see more models in this series.
Cheers,
Juan
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Still love the socks on my favourite (suicidal, if I am playing him lol) Highlander :-*
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Seeing the comparison pic of the various ranges is very surprising. The TM figures by themselves look very slender, but the French soldier seems to fit in very well with the 28s. Maybe it's just his coat makes him look bigger, but I'd like to see some comparisons of just the various Indians as I suspect the TMs would look not fit in so well.
Seeing these gorgeous pics and browsing through the Galloping Major's range makes me want to get enough for a small skirmish or two. Recently watching Last Of The Mohicans again hasn't helped me to talk myself out of it lol
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Extremely great stuff as usual Cap!
But you forgot to paint the eyes...
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Extremely great stuff as usual Cap!
But you forgot to paint the eyes...
Slap him, Richard. Slap him real good or, so help me God, I will.
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lol
Ah, you Swedes... ;)
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ssssschhhhwiiiiiiiiiing! ;D
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Thank you :)
Direct from Thunderbolt Mountain in the USA. https://www.thunderboltmountain.com/index.php?cPath=37&osCsid=
Thanks Mon Captain ;)
Piero