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Offline archangel1

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Military Ogres?
« on: October 02, 2008, 06:28:33 PM »
One of these possibly fits here but the other is out by a war.  Here goes anyway.  Have you seen the new Ogres from Scibor? Very cool!

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Offline Mancha

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2008, 06:39:14 PM »
VERY nice.  Wish Scibor didn't charge so much though.  I've turned away from his website in the past, intrigued by his minis, but turned off by his prices.

Offline archangel1

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2008, 07:28:08 PM »
I don't think they're particularly expensive.  Compared to GW, they are an absolute bargain!  The Ogres are only $17 for a figure that's nearly 2'' tall.  Of course, I'm used to paying 2 or 3 times that for 54mm's or bigger.  I guess if you're on a modelling budget, it's pricey, though, if you normally pay $2-3 per figure.

Offline Bako

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2008, 08:03:26 PM »
Pretty interesting stuff there. Been a while since I've went to Scibor's site.

Anyone know how well his stuff scales up next to Copplestone, or Hasslefree?
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Offline Regulator

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2008, 08:37:27 PM »
well...  ???

Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2008, 12:47:39 AM »
Pretty interesting stuff there. Been a while since I've went to Scibor's site.

Anyone know how well his stuff scales up next to Copplestone, or Hasslefree?

Generally looking a little press moulded in comparison... however these actually look sculpted rather than copied. Saw them a while ago, would suit the 40K styled prussians that are available from a german mini company whose name escapes me.

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Offline postal

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2008, 01:07:17 AM »
nice wwI but they look like they would work for wwII too.

Offline Christian

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2008, 01:30:31 AM »
While his standard of work is pretty high, I don't really like the pressed look much, mentioned above. However his work usually solicits a :o from everyone else, it doesn't always do that for me. These are nice though.

Offline Mancha

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2008, 05:01:27 AM »
I don't think they're particularly expensive.  Compared to GW, they are an absolute bargain!


Been a while since I've compared the price of a mini to what I could get from GW.

Offline Grimmnar

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2008, 07:20:55 AM »
While his standard of work is pretty high, I don't really like the pressed look much, mentioned above.
Pressed look? What ya mean in that?  :-)

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2008, 05:00:31 PM »
I felt the same way....  Lovely figs, not so hot prices.  17 for a oger?  That IS GW pricing....

I balked at the price...
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Offline twrchtrwyth

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2008, 12:17:08 AM »
Very nice. 8)
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Offline BigMecha

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2008, 04:10:15 AM »
very nice figures!!
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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2008, 03:00:47 PM »
I think those are very nice and characterful 40 mm miniatures and at 11,50 EUR very reasonable priced if you think about that small series produced and what other companies charge you for a single 28 mm sometimes ...

But I just emailed Scibor about the missing 2 other blokes he did; the group consists of 4 figures as you can see at the Greens page.

And what the f... does "pressed look" mean? Could anybody please enlighten me?

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Offline white knight

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Re: Military Ogres?
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2008, 04:06:50 PM »
I think they mean pressmoulded, something Scibor is often guilty of. It means you make a mould of a part of an existing figure and then you press it into greenstuff to duplicate that part. He often does it for conversions of GW models and has been suspected/accused of doing it in some of his commercially available models. It's perfectly fine if you copy your own stuff, but dubious if you copy bits of other people's minis (which he has also been suspected of).

 

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