CashWiley Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 That giant looks awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 That giant looks awesome. Quite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klarg1 Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 (edited) looks like they posted a pic for the other firegiant warrior green! Looks great btw I think this might be my favorite of Reaper's fire giant sculpts. This Bones thing might just work out... I want more, I should have gotten more than one! Take heart! There are rumors that you may, eventually be able to buy more here: http://www.reapermini.com Edit: Thinking about the Bones material, I wonder how well all of that beautiful detail will render in Bones plastic. The Ogre we used in the community WIP was definitely a touch softer than the metal version. I wonder if we'll ever get a metal version of this guy to compare. Edited November 8, 2012 by klarg1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrift Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 Hmm, I wonder if there's a way to remove parts of the filler and then paint it so it appears to be a spiderweb of arcane energy within. It's like you're in my head!!! Get out!!! I dunno, I've never actually been part of an "in" crowd. More like a hanger-on, groupie, or just the creepy guy who hides in the bushes. But one time I touched a styrofoam coffee cup that (rumor has it) Stephen Spielberg once touched! High point of my life thus far. I found a penny that day, too. I'll never forget it. buglips, it was insinuated by another poster some time ago that you and I are both part of a supposed 'in crowd'. Accept your fate, and keep being a positive force of influence! looks like they posted a pic for the other firegiant warrior green! Looks great btw Wish I'd ordered like 6 of this guy. Flat helmet = looooads of possibilities. besides I really like the change from the standard fare. Agreed. As an aside, I have to say that the lack of creative positive thought I'm seeing from a few posters is disappointing. It simply isn't possible to locate sculpts of the quality of magnitude, for these prices anywhere in the world. I've studied my way through the Reaper catalog/store many times, and there is consistent deviation from Talin's artwork and many sculpts over the years; this is a normal part of the process when 2 artists collide. I'm an artist, I'm not a slave to the vision of someone else's work lest I'd paint every miniature exactly as shown in the online store. Sculptors are artists, and I don't think it is reasonable to demand that they be enslaved to another artist's vision. The term 'concept art' is a vision, not a hard and fast schematic. If you're not satisfied with a sculpt and want to unload it after it arrives in March send me a PM and we can discuss an exchange; I'll even pay you the KS value in cash to take it off your hands. Just stop with personal attacks on the sculptors/artists; it is unprofessional as a fellow artist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 buglips, it was insinuated by another poster some time ago that you and I are both part of a supposed 'in crowd'. Accept your fate, and keep being a positive force of influence! Wait, wait, wait . . . I'm one of the cool kids and a role model? I don't think I can handle this kind of pressure! As an aside, I have to say that the lack of creative positive thought I'm seeing from a few posters is disappointing. It simply isn't possible to locate sculpts of the quality of magnitude, for these prices anywhere in the world. I've studied my way through the Reaper catalog/store many times, and there is consistent deviation from Talin's artwork and many sculpts over the years; this is a normal part of the process when 2 artists collide. Yeah, and it's good. Collaboration. The art of making the theoretical into the practical. Not everything turns out to my tastes. I've mentioned before that I like Jason Wiebe's earlier stuff more than his later stuff (coincidentally, he's the sculptor on the giant here) - but what odds? It's good for him to stretch himself and go in new directions. I like probably 90% of Reaper's total product - that's an astonishing number! As much as I talk about Ral Partha, that's not even 50%. RAFM, my third favourite company, hovers around a rather stingy 10% (a lot of their catalog is from the 80's and shows). I can't think of anything else I like 90% of. In a way, I have to wonder if Reaper's overall excellence is why such strong opinions happen when somebody doesn't like something. It just stands out more, or something. But the real interesting tell here is that every time somebody's vocal about not liking something, there's a bunch of other people who do like it. I mean, the group WIP was the Ogre - by far the most popular suggestion - and I wasn't real keen on him, but he was that popular for a reason. So as a whole, Reaper knocks it out of the park even more than 90% after we adjust for taste. That's an absolutely insane success rate! And it's better for us, as a group, if Reaper does offer a more varied array of interesting new products than to turn bland and repetitive. If an Ogre sculpt doesn't rock my world but a cloud giant lady gives me fits of ecstasy? Well, that's a trade I can definitely live with. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrift Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 I smell a movie... "In a world, where goblins are treated like bugs beneath the heels of adventurers. One goblin strives to rise above his status to inspire a people. Danger in the form of randomly exploding wizards lurks at every junction (cue action sequence trying to make it looks like buglips dies, but of course it would end the movie). (cue cheesy dialogue for Oscar consideration) "if you can't walk Mr. buglips, then I'll carry you..." 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 I smell a movie... "In a world, where goblins are treated like bugs beneath the heels of adventurers. One goblin strives to rise above his status to inspire a people. Danger in the form of randomly exploding wizards lurks at every junction (cue action sequence trying to make it looks like buglips dies, but of course it would end the movie). (cue cheesy dialogue for Oscar consideration) "if you can't walk Mr. buglips, then I'll carry you..." From the Academy Award Winning director of The Plastic Redemption and The Bone Dragon's Heart comes an epic adventure of romance and discovery . . . "Four stars", raves Grok of Orcertainment Weekly "I cried," - Marlokk the Malevolent "The best movie of our generation . . . a must see . . ." XyxyXxagzyXX the Para-Elemental The Minoture Painter 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando_the_Technicoloured Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 While I thought that helmet looks too flat when I saw it it's not coz it's unrealistic or badly sculpted, it just coz.......... er......... I'm not sure........ (maybe all the detail work on the armour plates/buckles etc and the plainess of the helmets) but I have 'a cunning plan' It's a perfect place to pop a smaller creature (maybe one of the bones familiars, maybe something from the bits box) as a crest! problem solved and uniqunes achived. All praise the reaper sculptor! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recruittons Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 I predict Adrian Brody for the role of Buglips the Goblin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recruittons Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 but I have 'a cunning plan' Oh god, what is it this time, Baldrick? /Blackadder 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrift Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 The flat helmet could easily have some small triangular spikes added around the 'crown' to form a crown, or some simple green stuff studs to make it studded. Or just a little green stuff and you've got a domed helmet..then add some simple horns and you've got a fire giant with frost giant envy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pally Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 The helmet had to be flat. It was uhh.. a requirement for the umm.. mildew baker process for P&C and/or probably a statistical requisite for the stickyness of the bones mini. Oh come on, Pally. No one said you had to like anything, they just asked you not to insult the sculptor by calling him lazy, without any evidence to support that claim. Heck, I'm glad I didn't pick up either of these sculpts; they don't really do it for me. But I can acknowledge the level of technical skill required to put it together, can see how long sculpting them must have taken, and can respect the artists for it. Actually I like the giant (squatty-legged as it may be) ogre thing. I have plans for it. I was just poking fun at the posts in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baphomet69 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I don't think I can respond to this politely, so right now I'll just say, "Please stop." So who died and made you Captain Crunch? Captain Crunch? I heard that he died of bleeding gums. I think that was Captain Kangaroo...oh wait, that was another bleeding orifice...never mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuldGrump Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 It's extremely lazy of the sculptor. Are you a sculptor? Mold-maker? Caster? Unless you are intimately familiar with the production process and requirements, I think it is inappropriate to make such a judgement. ~v Not 'professionally', but I imagine we'll all have to become sculptors if we want to deal with the 'filler' in some way other than glow paint. Better to get the original right the first time rather than pass the work on to the customers. That's just my opinion and therefore I still think it's lazy of the sculptor. I can't imagine that I'd need to be a mold-maker or caster to make that assessment. I'm sure we all cut corners and are lazy to some extent when it comes to some projects. Some more than others. It's not a big insult as far as I'm concerned. Also, your response is tacky. If someone goes to a restaurant and complains about their food and says it seems like the cook was lazy, can you imagine the chef coming out and saying, "Are you a chef? A waiter? A restaurant manager? Unless you are a cook and know how to cook then you can not say my food is bad!" I will point out that the PVC is very flexible - a largish head on a very thin neck would droop, and perhaps they felt that the ribs would also be better with a bit more thickness. For filling it in... I have done a wee bit of archaeology back in school (also known as 'unpaid shovel handler') - the ribs could well be filled with dirt, as could the skull. Depending on conditions it could also have a layer of skin pulled tight across, or, my favorite, be given over to adipocere - where tissue becomes, ummm, wax. A corpse given over to adipocere can last for centuries.... The Auld Grump, one of these days I want to use a mellified mummy in one of my games - where honey is used to preserve the corpse. Again, the corpse can last centuries - Alexander the Great was mellified. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakandara Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 It's a perfect place to pop a smaller creature (maybe one of the bones familiars, maybe something from the bits box) as a crest! problem solved and uniqunes achived. All praise the reaper sculptor! Get out of my head; there was a series of knights that Reaper did that all had helms with big stuff on top (I'm not going to link them; you can go find them yourself if you want to look) - a castle (i.e. the chess piece), unicorn, bull, etc. I'm thinking the exact same thing for the giants, except using the heads of animals from the Reaper line instead, and GS'ing them to look like they were lopped off and tacked in place. ~v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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