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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: tin shed gamer on September 25, 2018, 11:00:29 PM
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I do quite regularly offer to sculpt a miniature of someone for free this then gets added to a range. The whole thing is done on the QT. Occasionally that person is quite open about the finished sculpt. Others enjoy the anonymity .
For the last two major projects I've asked thirty people per projects if the they'd like to participate.
I've just today finished sending out the offers for the next project.
The results are almost identical for all three projects( not everyone has responded from the third project at the time of writing but it appears very similar to the first two).
Literally half have said yes. The rest come in at 20% straight up no thank you.(which is absolutely fine not an issue) and 30% No - uncomfortable about the idea.(again totally understand)
(The take up rate is considerably higher than the similar ww1 vehicle offer a few years back. Which required considerably more imput.So I can't use that as a benchmark.)
As I've had very similar results for three projects over two years.I was wondering. Does this reflect the veiws of the forum members?
(Please note if you have said No thank you. This thread isn't intended as dig.(( Nor should you feel the need to qualify you decision.))Only as a means of gauging the viability of futrue cunning plans of an idiot.)
Mark.
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I think allowing them to pose fully clothed would probably increase the acceptance rate. :)
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So ... Your saying not like one of my French girls. :`
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They're just not entirely sure about your peeping in on grandma through the bathroom window being "for research purposes only", is all. lol
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I'd love to be sculpted, but not warts and all. I definitely require a little Vaseline on the lens, so to speak.
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Paul
I assure you (as a retired nurse)I don't require the level of personal information. That would involve lubrication nor would you be asked to cough. :D
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I wouldn't say no, but I don't feel to be interesting enough to be sculpted at all...
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It is a surprising statistic to me how many decline. I cannot think of any reason that I would NOT want a little miniature of myself out there in the world. I suppose that is why I had 7 kids....
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I had a sculpt of me done in the TAG Tudor range and am absurdly proud of little me to the extent that the master and a painted version done by Roy Duffy get shown regularly to people who don’t know the level of craftsmanship that exists in this hobby. Now if only I could finish the rest of the army lol
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I too would love to have a 'mini-me' on the table, even though (some years ago)
while doing a head swap on a figure I dropped the head & couldn't find it. I made a
simple (bald) head out of Miliput. During the next game it attracted FAR MORE missiles
than was fair! Every-one later said, 'Well it was your personality figure'
May-be I am not as liked as I think I am.
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I think it would be an honour to be sculpted as miniature.
To be honest I don't know why anyone would not want to be immortalised.
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Being as photogenic as the arse end of a caravan site I've got no desire to see myself in miniature (or make a sculptor suffer to make it) but I was inordinately proud when Kev Adams named a gobbo after me 8)
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Dags, dont worry when you look as bad as I do, you can still get models made... GW took my picture and used it as the basis for a nurgling!
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It is a surprising statistic to me how many decline. I cannot think of any reason that I would NOT want a little miniature of myself out there in the world. I suppose that is why I had 7 kids....
Haha! My kids are so annoyed at me when I tell them to dress up like a cleric and a rogue and go stand on my dwarven forge dungeon set up while I roll for monsters and treasure. No respect!
I'd love to be sculpted. That is kinda weird how many said no. I assume this would entail sending in a photo, and that you'd work from that? They don't have to come model for you (clothes or not) in person, do they? Spending a few hours/days modeling would certainly be a disincentive...!
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I find it quite an attractive idea. In fact I'd like to have one 'me' for every ambientation I play! (just one head to swap on different minis won't do, I'll need the whole set :D) At some point I wanted to do that with my regular playing group, so we all could have our own miniature version in a PA setting. Unfortunately it was far beyond my skills and never got to do it, but I find the whole concept pretty amusing.
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Suber, thats the idea ! I have got a head ,sculpted looking like me and I stick it on different models . I like it a lot!
(https://wargamesgazette.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/img_4400.jpg?w=352&h=600)
or
(https://wargamesgazette.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/lrg_dsc02157.jpg?w=358&h=456&zoom=2)
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No clue why anyone would say no - have often considered getting a 'mini-me' sculpted :)
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Well this seems to have killed off the project. Only eight replies since I started the thread and its 3-5 against.
It's odd because I've gotten enquiries every other week and make on average eight private head commissions a year in cluding forum members.So its not as if its un heard of.
I'm tempted to throw this open to the members. If I've not enough takers by the end of the month.
Mark.
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I can't see why people would say no either. Given we do this hobby for fun and the offer is free why not? I like the idea of appearing as a character in one of our Mordheim or Post Apoc games.
Although having a figure of the wife made could lead to much strife depending on the skill of the sculptor! "Yes darling, but that is what is meant by 28mm "heroic" style, all the proportions are enlarged and more pronounced than in reality"
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In reference to the title of the post. I would love a mini of my father who passed away 6 years ago. He did not participate in my hobby, but like a good father would listen to me ramble on and on about it.
A mini of me ? I would find amusing. But a pile of heads that look like mine... I could start my own clone army.
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I had my mom sculpted recently. It’s the perfect representation of her.
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I wouldn't actively seek it out, but I would be flattered if someone offered. Would we get a choice of when in our life it would be? I would prefer when I was in my twenties instead of now. Now I'd look like a dwarf without the beard. If it could be another family member, I would love a figure of my grandfather. He served in the artillery in WWI.
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Would we get a choice of when in our life it would be?
I was pretty glad that Lead Adventure Miniatures picked the time I scored a double-century and took twenty wickets to win England the Ashes, the week after I had scored the winning goal when Wales won the FIFA World Cup. It was lovely that they chose that point in my life, especially seeing as it never actually happened outside of my head.
(It is a bit weird when I keep seeing that figure cropping up in other peoples' collections on LAF, though. I think, "Hey! That's me!")
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lol There'd be an awful lot of Home guard If I said No.
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Mate, I'd completely forgotten you'd sculpted my nan! :D
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Back in 2013 I set up a game based on the film (movie) "Them!" For it I made figures of our small wargaming group using suitable figures, head swops and milliput. Some needed less work than others.
Unfortunately on our first outing 4 of the 5 figures were casualties of the giant ants.
At another show I watched a game being played of an action in which I was participant of the real event. In I saw the little toy "me" killed. That was an odd feeling!
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Dadlassu,
Know that one. It's even weirder when they try and tell you what happened.and you know it's total bollocks . ::)
JP. Ive had the casting of your nan on my desk for an age.Lost everyone's details when the ipad went into brick mode. Then Outlook refuses to let me in on anything else.
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Will send a PM mate :)
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Sculpt me, tin shed, sculpt me! (To be honest a ball bearing with facial features would probably sort the head right out, darnit)
But yes, ideally I would like a wee zombie apoc representation of myself one day. I tried it once with my then girlfriend only for both of us to get eaten and that too felt weird.
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While I was very flattered to be asked, I was one of the 'thanks but no thanks' guys.
I don't visualise myself in any of my games and while I have worn uniform, it seems a tad ''Walter Mitty' or 'John Wayne', to have myself performing heroic feats on-table that I haven't done and probably wouldn't have done, in real life.
Even if I didn't think that way, I don't game 'my era' in any case. I do personalise my miniature heroes, but I don't fantasise that I am them.
Rightly or wrongly I presumed Mark was going for the Interwar/WW2 theme, which my family were either too young or old to take part in, although I did have a grandfather who was in the Home Guard (reserved occupation); but I have no photos of him.
If we were talking Palestine, Korea, Malaya and Cyprus Post-War, then I had family galore in the Army and Navy across that time period.
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Rings true Arlequin,however I have been sculpted by a member (Christian) as Greywolf the Dwarf,my copy still not painted; he is possibly the least heroic miniature I own,just like me.
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Sure, if we were talking 'doing me' in a fantasy or sci-fi, or even a Medieval or other non-20th Century context, then I'd likely be asking Mark where to put my clothes... I may have got the wrong end of the stick there, but you know what I mean.
;)
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Dear oh dear Arlequin,haha.
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There's quite a disturbing willingness to get naked running through this .
It may be worth noting gentleman before you offer such things that it is close to winter. Also I sculpt physically accurate 28mm figures, scale can be cruel when converting inches .(an inch is less than point five of a millimeter) ;)
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Sure, if we were talking 'doing me' in a fantasy or sci-fi, or even a Medieval or other non-20th Century context, then I'd likely be asking Mark where to put my clothes... I may have got the wrong end of the stick there, but you know what I mean.
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Be grateful that the offer isn’t coming from Brother Vinni. He’d have you posing naked, chained to a pillar with a giant spear disappearing up yer wotsit. ;)
I’ve probably related this before but one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen was a commissioned work requested by the customer of a friend of mine. The chap brought his own reference material into the shop. It was a 1970s Berlei lingerie ad, slightly grubby but clearly lovingly and tenderly torn from the pages of The Women’s Weekly. There was an unhealthy amount of speculation (mostly mine, if truth be told) as to whether the model in the ad resembled this particular patron of the arts’ mother at an earlier and presumably influential period in both their lives.
The commission was completed, money had changed hands and the end result was a pretty good likeness but Christ on a bike there was something incredibly fucking creepy about it all. There are some genuinely strange fuckers in this hobby.
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I sculpt physically accurate 28mm figures, scale can be cruel when converting inches .(an inch is less than point five of a millimeter) ;)
In that case, you'd best sculpt my bottom half as a donkey :)
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There's quite a disturbing willingness to get naked running through this.
I thought it was very in-period and Bohemian. No pleasing you is there? ;)
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There's quite a disturbing willingness to get naked running through this .
It may be worth noting gentleman before you offer such things that it is close to winter. Also I sculpt physically accurate 28mm figures, scale can be cruel when converting inches .(an inch is less than point five of a millimeter) ;)
Not to mention that that point-five will be even smaller given the cold... lol
The Viking part of my heritage definitely blessed me with "combat tackle", which is to say, it only shows up when needed. Wouldn't look very impressive were I to model!
(too much information? ;D )