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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: M.O.T.N on September 09, 2019, 10:15:22 AM
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Hello,
I'm in the process of setting up shop so I'll come back and link the webstore here in the coming weeks... in the meantime I've been keen to show off some preview images on LAF.
http://edinburghminiaturecompany.com
This is the start of a major project that will span 2+ years, the objective of which is a cohesive and modern mythology range. I've started with these hoplites to set the tone and style/size for the rest of the range (once I have the baseline human done I can design the monsters better against them). Allowing my miniatures to sit beside and scale with existing historical ranges is important so I've also produced conversion sets of heads and arms to expand modelling opportunities.
All miniatures will be metal initially and come in as few pieces as possible. Resin is a possibility for some larger pieces. The hoplites here are 3 parts - only the shield and right weapon arm are separate. Heads and left arms are all attached to the body.
I've been sculpting for about 11 years now and done the odd commission over the years, to do this project justice though I've actually taken a career break from my profession (investments) to get things up and running.
Appreciate these might be a bit boring compared to say Wraith Hoplites and Harpies, but they will come pretty quickly. After this "Blue Faction" I have Spartans ready for mould making and then it's on to undead, followed by Cyclops and Harpies.
Queries, comments, support etc. very much appreciated. Cheers,
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Very nice!
Good luck with the venture.
I have become quite obsessed with Ancient style fantasy figures but more Bronze agey. These are lovely though and might sit alongside the Wargods figures.
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These are great and exactly what I've been looking for for awhile.
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These look really cool! Are those plastic bodies victrix?
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They look great :-*
Since you are going with a more fantasiesque aproach, I would suggest to not use peloponnesian war episima on the shields, like the Lamda and the rest well known city symbols. I know they are popular because most people are familiar with them, but they are very specific time frame wise.
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Yep, that would be my advice as well. Plain shields are better, or offer purchasers a choice of plain or decorated shields.
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Nice figures indeed. I concur with the request for plain shields as my forces are mainly for mythological games. What size are they compared with Victrix and Warlord Games?
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they look great !
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Thanks all. Yes the comparison shots are against Victrix plastics. I'll try and get a picture against some warlord minis soon, my stuff works well beside their Macedonian Phalangite plastics, as well as their plastic Celtic Warriors. Their plastic hoplites however, formerly Immortal, are smaller scaled and my sculpts and don't look good side by side.
Regarding the shields, thanks for the input - luckily the shields are in a different mould from the miniatures and I have blank shields going into their own new mould next week. To be honest I half expected people to be using Victrix shields in place of mine anyway. I'll likely make shields an option when purchasing.
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beautiful. Can't wait to see more!
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You could go with a boeotian shield instead of the argolic round hoplon. They look more interesting with their double cut away and there is more room for a fantasy twist. In greek art the heroes and the gods usually carry boeotian shields as an artistic node to an older era. Boeotian shields were a derivative of the eight shaped bronze age shields and their archaic transformations.
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That would be interesting.
Maybe earlier hoplites with the extra arm and leg armour?
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I have plans for a few factions- each one with a different style, theme, and shield design.
The 28mm range has fantasy leanings but I'm keen on doing smaller scale historical stuff early next year - the Trojan war in 15mm and Greco Persian Wars in 10mm are quite appealing.
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Some shots of more test casts below. All the archers are single piece casts, no nasty assembly required.
The bows have however proved tricky to cast up and I've had a high percentage of failures, I'll need to thicken them up for the next mould. The first lot to retail will be as shown here.
I'm hoping to have my webstore live this week so these will finally be available for purchase.
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They look great! :-*
Have you considered a musician and banner bearer?
Is the only figure holding the spear-upright the only one in a "foot on rock" stance? i.e. is there one with both feet on terra firma?
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but I'm keen on doing smaller scale historical stuff early next year - the Trojan war in 15mm
This.
Please, just take my wallet. :D
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Have you considered a musician and banner bearer?
Is the only figure holding the spear-upright the only one in a "foot on rock" stance? i.e. is there one with both feet on terra firma?
Thanks. I get the hate for 'foot on the rock' miniatures, in this case though I specifically made them so when you rank these guys, single or multi base, you have variety of height and movement - foot on rock guy looks great in the middle and rear ranks.
The right spear arms are all separate, the set comes with 4 thrusting forward, 2 overarm thrusts and 2 vertical/upright at ease. There's also 4 loose spears and arms with empty hands in the set so you can create as much variety as you want. Even the thrusting forward arms can be raised vertical and still look good.
Definitely yes to musicians and some type of banner. I've even got designs on Ballista and Polybolos artillery. Single part rank filler hoplites exist with all spears upright/vertical, they're in the queue for mould making.
Lots to share over the coming weeks and months, it's a solo operation at the moment so a slow start but release momentum will be pretty steady once it begins.
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I am super interested in what you have showed untile now. I've been looking for more fantasy hoplites and greek infantry in general.
With the recentish realease of Saga AoM and my purchase of the incredible minotaurs made by Zealot I'm in need of proper infantry and yours look excellent!
I can't wait for them being on sale, do you have an ETA for the shop opening?
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I can't wait for them being on sale, do you have an ETA for the shop opening?
Cheers - literally a day or two. Only 8 or 9 products at launch, pre-order deals for the first week, with shipping commencing next week.
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Cheers - literally a day or two. Only 8 or 9 products at launch, pre-order deals for the first week, with shipping commencing next week.
THE HYPE RISES!!!
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I had to look up "Polybolos artillery" - very cool! :)
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I had to look up "Polybolos artillery" - very cool! :)
In modern greek we use the same word for machine gun. It literally means the one that shoots many times.
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I had to look up "Polybolos artillery" - very cool! :)
To be fair it only entered my vocabulary recently after googling "ancient greek bolt thrower'. Similarly 'gastrophetes' sounds like a hipster restaurant... so I'll just say crossbow.
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My humble little webstore is now open - https://www.edinburghminiaturecompany.com
I'm in the 'pre-order' phase for the next 7 days while the site is finished (mostly image uploads and formatting the mobile version) and then I'll share the tentative release plan covering the rest of the year in the coming weeks.
As ever, thanks for any and all support.
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I'm not normally a lover of hoplites but these guys look great. Some scale shots against existing ranges might be an idea for the shop.
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Cheers lost egg.
Some early stage WIP shots here. Once the full Atheros (Blue) range is out, I'll do a phalanx of 'Movie Spartans' shown here, along with undead.
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They look great.
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gotta wait for those spartans now :-*
something I feel is worthwhile pointing out, you may want to do something for the search engine indicization (dunno if that's even a word)
I searched the name of the company on google and all I can find is either a whiskey company that sells miniature bottles of whiskey or the facebook page.
and it's a shame really, since your minis are really cool!
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Cracking work, they look awesome. Good luck! :D
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I searched the name of the company on google and all I can find is either a whiskey company that sells miniature bottles of whiskey or the facebook page.
Literally working on it now! Appreciate the heads up, very kind.
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A female hoplite captain along with some archer packs are up on the shop now.
Back to sculpting for me... more finished sculpt images due this week.
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And some comparison shots between Victrix plastic Greeks and Macedonian plastics from Warlord games. They all seem to scale up nicely, doing some head swaps obviously helps.
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one thing I think it's worth mentioning.
would it be possible to swap the single different mini in the archers blisters around?
having 3 armored humans in one and 3 unarmored satyrs in the other would be much more desirable imo.
I almost forgot to mention that I really like this miniature line and can't wait for those spartans you have in the pipeline to hit the shelves!
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one thing I think it's worth mentioning.
would it be possible to swap the single different mini in the archers blisters around?
having 3 armored humans in one and 3 unarmored satyrs in the other would be much more desirable imo.
I almost forgot to mention that I really like this miniature line and can't wait for those spartans you have in the pipeline to hit the shelves!
I've had some issues with the production of the archers so this is just a small sample run for specific folks that wanted them, I've got another mould being made that will enable me to offer individual packs of humans or fauns, with a few extra poses in there. Annoying, but only short term. Hoping to hear in the coming days the timeframe.
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That's excellent, I only asked because being able to create difderent units is a big plus and having them in cohesive blisters is a big boon for wargamers.
I want to reoterate how I think that what you are releasing is awesome imo and strangely needed in the 28 mm landscape, there's a surprising lack of fantasy greekish miniatures. Amd things like those from Crocodile are really hard to come by in europe.
I really like how your minis are clearly on the fantasy side of the spectrum without being over the top.
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Cheers MrHlaine, I appreciate stuff like that being called out in case it's something I've missed or overlooked.
I'm itching to get some of the creatures and beasts sculpted, but I felt getting the basic humans done first helps me set the tone and style. I've got designs on crossovers between regional mythologies.
I agree on Crocodile games, it's a shame they're not more available in the UK. I used to like their style but it doesn't blend well with historical, which is something I'm trying to do.
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Honestly making the minis 100% compatible with the like of victrix is a genius move. :-*
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Some WIP shots here, lots more work required but the overall style and composition should be evident. The wraith spear arms are separate and interchangeable so there's some cool alternative poses. There's a couple more undead sculpts in progress that will go into the same mould as the wraiths.
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They look cool, I love the flowing robes. They look like they will be pretty imposing against the normal guys.
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The wraiths are my favorite.
One technical question if you dont mind. The parts that are going to be molded seperately, do you sculpt them on their own, or you sculpt the whole mini and then cut it down?
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The wraiths are my favorite.
One technical question if you dont mind. The parts that are going to be molded seperately, do you sculpt them on their own, or you sculpt the whole mini and then cut it down?
Thanks all. I love sculpting cloth and robes, it took a lot of practice and study before I feel like I found my own style.
Regarding sculpting parts separate or on the mini it can vary, and again took me a lot of trial an error to find my way of doing things:
- Generally I'll sculpt the torso and legs as one piece first.
- I'll drill holes into the arm sockets and super glue in armature wire, before sculpting the arms in place. I can then pop the arms out easily if required for the mould making process.
- In the case of the wraiths I used this method for the left arm that will hold the shields. They will be cast attached to the body. For the right arms however I sculped separately and used the spear as the anchor... because the spear arms are interchangeable I needed to check conectivity on all three torso's as I sculpted.
- For heads I'll generally sculpt them separately, as can be seen on the above Wraith photo. If I need to attach the heads I'll do the same as for the arms - drill a hole into the neck then use armature wire to connect the head in place, and finally sculpt the neck and any hair.
I usually consider the technicalities before sculpting, that way I know if I need to sculpt a socket for a ball joint head or simply leave that area flat for drilling and connecting a head.
To further complicate things I've got a lot of master parts and dollies in metal so there's a lot of cleaning, filing and drilling of those before I start sculpting. I much prefer to sculpt from scratch but using masters helps keep the scale and style consistent (the same helmet, torso or weapon for example).
When making animals I usually make the entire armature first and sculpt as one piece. I did some 28mm rhinos and needed to cut one of the hind legs off, I had sculpted in super sculpey so I did this with a scalpel before I cured the sculpt. Once hardened in the oven it was a simple task to wriggle the leg off then cut the armature. Some minor fixes were required with ProCreate epoxy putty but it worked out well... and will serve as a mount for a north african fantasy army.
Wings are new to me, I'm sculpting stymphalion birds are we speak and doing them as one piece over a template of plasticard. Considering Harpies, I'm making the wings separate then attaching to the torso with armature wire and they will be cast as one piece.
Very long answer but hope that was insightful! I think about all these things when I look at your sculpting thread too Harlock :)
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Thanks all. I love sculpting cloth and robes, it took a lot of practice and study before I feel like I found my own style.
Regarding sculpting parts separate or on the mini it can vary, and again took me a lot of trial an error to find my way of doing things:
- Generally I'll sculpt the torso and legs as one piece first.
- I'll drill holes into the arm sockets and super glue in armature wire, before sculpting the arms in place. I can then pop the arms out easily if required for the mould making process.
- In the case of the wraiths I used this method for the left arm that will hold the shields. They will be cast attached to the body. For the right arms however I sculped separately and used the spear as the anchor... because the spear arms are interchangeable I needed to check conectivity on all three torso's as I sculpted.
- For heads I'll generally sculpt them separately, as can be seen on the above Wraith photo. If I need to attach the heads I'll do the same as for the arms - drill a hole into the neck then use armature wire to connect the head in place, and finally sculpt the neck and any hair.
I usually consider the technicalities before sculpting, that way I know if I need to sculpt a socket for a ball joint head or simply leave that area flat for drilling and connecting a head.
To further complicate things I've got a lot of master parts and dollies in metal so there's a lot of cleaning, filing and drilling of those before I start sculpting. I much prefer to sculpt from scratch but using masters helps keep the scale and style consistent (the same helmet, torso or weapon for example).
When making animals I usually make the entire armature first and sculpt as one piece. I did some 28mm rhinos and needed to cut one of the hind legs off, I had sculpted in super sculpey so I did this with a scalpel before I cured the sculpt. Once hardened in the oven it was a simple task to wriggle the leg off then cut the armature. Some minor fixes were required with ProCreate epoxy putty but it worked out well... and will serve as a mount for a north african fantasy army.
Wings are new to me, I'm sculpting stymphalion birds are we speak and doing them as one piece over a template of plasticard. Considering Harpies, I'm making the wings separate then attaching to the torso with armature wire and they will be cast as one piece.
Very long answer but hope that was insightful! I think about all these things when I look at your sculpting thread too Harlock :)
Wow! Thanks for the answer it was insightful indeed!
Im completely noob in sculpting and while there are many ''how to'' regarding the artistic aspect, there are not many technical guidelines out there. For example there is almost nothing about optimising a design even in the concept stage for casting. What to avoid, when you have and where you have to cut your mini. Its funny because you can be too absorbed trying to sculpt a mini the way you want, and then realise that its not enough to render the shapes, but you have to think ahead about the reproduction. As if it not hard already lol.
Another thing I discovered is that even if you are a ''one man show'' doing the sculpting, the casting, the promotion and logistics, the profit margin is so tiny that you better really love what you do and count as ''payment'' the satisfaction of creating something out of nothing. Unless someone is extremely talented or simply dont care and keep churning out minis, this isnt a profitable endevour. Perhaps only for big companies that are willing to wait for a very long termed investment to bear fruit. Maybe Im getting something wrong though, time (and more experience) will tell :)
Cheers
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When making animals I usually make the entire armature first and sculpt as one piece. I did some 28mm rhinos and needed to cut one of the hind legs off, I had sculpted in super sculpey so I did this with a scalpel before I cured the sculpt. Once hardened in the oven it was a simple task to wriggle the leg off then cut the armature. Some minor fixes were required with ProCreate epoxy putty but it worked out well... and will serve as a mount for a north african fantasy army.
Nice way to sneak in a little teaser of things to come. I'm really really curious on how a fantasy north-african army will look!
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Nice way to sneak in a little teaser of things to come. I'm really really curious on how a fantasy north-african army will look!
I've got a plan, and a little list. I don't want to share it all yet because it might simply be read as a wish list. And there's a bit of explanation required. I'm just trying to find time for some graphic design before I present the background/setting for my range.
@Harlock - we can continue that conversation on your thread, drop me a PM if I can help with anything.
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Some WIP shots here, lots more work required but the overall style and composition should be evident. The wraith spear arms are separate and interchangeable so there's some cool alternative poses. There's a couple more undead sculpts in progress that will go into the same mould as the wraiths.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6M9Qg_f8N5o/XacCLBFg_2I/AAAAAAAAA5I/_z9gXbzxrNQE3NdUuVf4oTSz_W_I5bSzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_1768.jpg)
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Those extra head options on the cork look nice, and methinks prove perfect for conversion, if they happen to be seperate. :o Apart from that, the miniatures look amazing as is!
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Those extra head options on the cork look nice, and methinks prove perfect for conversion, if they happen to be seperate. :o Apart from that, the miniatures look amazing as is!
I'm not sure yet, but it's likely... I'm sculpting a few more and experimenting with the size. Making a relatively 'in scale' skull means they are pretty tiny, stick a helmet on that and it's going to sit at an odd angle and perhaps look lame.
The heads on the left of the image are slightly larger to fill out the helmets but I'm not convinced I like them. If there's space I'll get them on a sprue in the mould.
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I guess you could always take a pic and then play around with heads sizes in photoshop to try out larger heads.
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they have such a heroic look.. love the minis !!!
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Well my time is being eaten by the other range I'm working on at the moment (Tox Trooper), but I'll be back to this one soon. In the meantime here's a test mini I did of a Faun Archer lady. Please excuse the extreme close up and the horrible 'inked metal' image.
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Liking the wraiths.
When will they be available?
How much will they cost?
How do we order them?
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Liking the wraiths.
When will they be available?
How much will they cost?
How do we order them?
I'm not sure on costs yet, it will likely be about 3-4 weeks before they are on sale @ https://www.edinburghminiaturecompany.com (https://www.edinburghminiaturecompany.com)
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Thanks. I will keep my eye on it.
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My movie style Spartans are finally away for mould making so I'll preview painted examples be the end of next week.
In the meantime a quick shot of my mythology terrain collection. Thematically this is post war of the gods, hence the over sized columns scattered across the landscape (that fell from heaven). Lots more terrain to show at a later date, the hades board will showcase my undead stuff in early December.
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Looks grand M.O.T.N. out of interest what rules do you use?
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that is a great looking table.. love those temples ...
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Thanks. This is the 'ruined' terrain, I'm currently working on a small town thats new and inhabited... not smashed up.
Generally Lord of the Rings SBG is my go to skirmish rules. I have a set of my own rules that I was playtesting, I blogged about it here https://miniaturesofthenorth.blogspot.com/2019/11/kudos-game-designers.html (https://miniaturesofthenorth.blogspot.com/2019/11/kudos-game-designers.html)
Quick snaps of some new sculpts... the Spartans are off for mould making. There's a lot of blu-tac holding the shields and weapons arms on so they look a bit wonkey.
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Acheron swordsmen, I'll do 3 spearmen and a captain next. They are a city state that migrated to the Underworld after the war of the gods so I might paint them with a grey skin tone to suggest they are some type of shade.
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this is all fantastic, and deserves to be a great success.
Wonderful sculpting :-*
love the board and your terrain too.
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They look cool, it'll be good to see some paint on them.
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Cheers chaps.
Here's a WIP snap of some armoured skeletons. I'll get these into a mould with the 3 wraith sculpts hopefully be the end of this week... just in time for the Spartan test casts coming in.
Few tweaks and touch ups still required... second on the left has a huge hand lol
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Hi, I'm interested in the Spartans. How do they measure in scale to Wargods Spartans and other makes? Bigger or smaller?
Hunlion
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Hi, I'm interested in the Spartans. How do they measure in scale to Wargods Spartans and other makes? Bigger or smaller?
Hunlion
Hey, unfortunately I'm not sure - I don't own any Wargods miniatures. I'll take some comparison shots alongside Victrix Spartans next week they sale quite well with those.
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Hey, unfortunately I'm not sure - I don't own any Wargods miniatures. I'll take some comparison shots alongside Victrix Spartans next week they sale quite well with those.
Might be worth getting at least one Wargods miniature as that might create a good amount of sales from those players :)
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Some work in progress paint jobs here, these are all iphone shots on the workbench (with a polystyrene background) so inferior to proper light tent photos. I've got 6 spartan spearmen half done and hoping to have them finished by the weekend. I was so happy with them I did some additional pose variants and got another mould organised - currently awaiting test casts of those before I put them up for sale in the coming days.
The bronze is great 'in real life' but the photos carry a lot of glare, I'm hoping the light tent balances it out.
All going to plan then, there's 4 rear rank poses in total with the spears attached to the mini, and 3 'advancing' poses that can have spear or sword arms. And also the Captain.
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And finally I'll make the conversion arm sprues available for purchase. One of the arms here is shown on my Atheros hoplite but they also work great on Victrix plastics. I'll need to go weigh them and work out the logistics but they'll likely come in sets for 10 minis (so 10 sword arms and 10 left arms). They're very fine but look great on the minis.
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Few more snaps of bits and pieces...
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I'm not sold on the Spartan paint jobs (maybe its the photographs) but the casts are excellent, I'll get some inked metal images soon.
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They look great, I particularly like the shot of the two groups facing off against each other.
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They look great, I particularly like the shot of the two groups facing off against each other.
Thanks, the poses were unplanned but work well. I'll need to get some in game/terrain shots soon.
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That'll be cool. You must get a real buzz once you seen the minis you've sculpted finally make it into in-game shots after spending so many hours designing & creating them.
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That'll be cool. You must get a real buzz once you seen the minis you've sculpted finally make it into in-game shots after spending so many hours designing & creating them.
You do in the beginning but after a few years (10+ now) it wears off... there's always the next thing to be making, and I've got a long list of stuff. I think once I've got enough unique minis and images to full up a rule book then I'll be satisfied. Speaking of which, I'm still undecided but I may do a small intro PDF/ebook and if it's popular I'll develop into a full campaign system.
Joe Mc's stuff (Rangers of shadow deep, frostgrave) is quite an inspiration that I'll probably follow, but with different mechanics.
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Ahh so you're thinking of doing your own rules, that's cool. I haven't looked at Frostgrave but I've heard good things about it but ROSD looks very cool.
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Ahh so you're thinking of doing your own rules, that's cool. I haven't looked at Frostgrave but I've heard good things about it but ROSD looks very cool.
There's already plenty of ancients/mythology rules out there so I'm not sure we need another one, but I'm actively working on a set. It's definitely a difficult and long process to get right.
More pics of the Spartans today, there's a courier on it's way with a few more test casts for me. I need to clean, assemble and actually paint them before they pass my quality control. All going to plan I'll have these on sale in the store by the end of the week!
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Good looking models...I particularly like the shading on the armour
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Good looking models...I particularly like the shading on the armour
Thanks.
Here's a quick mock up for the Atheros bolt launcher. I'll use this as a reference for making a production quality version.
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Pre-order discounts available in the store until Tuesday
https://www.edinburghminiaturecompany.com/shop (https://www.edinburghminiaturecompany.com/shop)
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Few more paint jobs on prototypes here:
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WIP sculpt on a cyclops, early stages so it's very blocky and rough.
Ideally I'll do a few different poses and perhaps some fatter ones. I see these as the ogres of the setting, this one is a wild scavenger hence the lean physique.
Odd dillema is when it comes to the face there's no eyebrows to suggest mood or expression, I'll need to rely on the mouth and tweak the head posturing to give it some character.
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Preview of some undead I'll hopefully release soon. Scaled to fit alongside plastic historical minis, like all the Mythology stuff.
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And the early stages of some Underworld dungeon crawler terrain...
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The Cyclops looks great! What size is it?
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The Cyclops looks great! What size is it?
50-60mm, Ogre height. I've actually paused on that sculpt and have armatures for 3 newer sculpts in the work queue.