How do you decide what to sculpt in 10mm

[Fenton]

I have often wondered how manuufacturers of sclaes other than 28mm and not having their own set of rules to back with figures I was wondering how you decide what to sculpt

What I am trying to say  do you say have a look at the latest GW army books, or say the old Fantasy Warriors stuff then try and  match your scuplts that can be used for those rules ( especially the monsters and warmachines bits) , or do you just design what you feel like as it loks nice and will work in Generic sets like HOTT etc.

[Leon]

A lot of it is just your basic generic races, Orcs, Goblins and so on, but for the rest, it's just up to the imagination of us, or the sculptor.  Most of the Fantasy range was done by one guy, who came up with the ranges/poses himself. 

The Dungeon stuff was again the work of one guy, Germy, who wanted some Dungeon Monsters/Furniture for himself, designed the lot, and came to us with it.

With Fantasy, we generally have less input.  The designers get an idea, sculpt it, and we mould it up.

Personally, I like to come up with things that are a little different, but accessible to people.  The Samurai Apes were an idea by my 6 year old son (although he wanted 'Ninja Monkeys'!) but they're a good example of that.

[Fenton]

Thanks for the reply


Hmm I'll just have to find someone that feels like doing a load of the old Grenadier stuff in 10mm now


I was wondering if you had ever though of selling the Dungeon walls and floor sections as moulds and letting people mould their own ...?

Just  a thought

[jchaos79]

Granadier was fantastic, with nick lund and andrew chernak!!

I love pendraken fantasy because they have the taste of "generic" fantasy, as the old times used to be, pure imagination not "castrated" for rulebooks and sourcebooks.

[dicehead]

Grenadier did some great fantasy stuff, I liked them for the same reason. If dinosaurs and flying birdmen didn't fit your idea of a fantasy setting you didn't have to buy them, but if they did you could get them and weirder stuff besides. Happy days looking through those Grenadier brochures with maybe one photo per 500 figs!

[Leon]

flying birdmen

I'd like some of these at some point.

[Fenton]

Grenadier did some great fantasy stuff, I liked them for the same reason. If dinosaurs and flying birdmen didn't fit your idea of a fantasy setting you didn't have to buy them, but if they did you could get them and weirder stuff besides. Happy days looking through those Grenadier brochures with maybe one photo per 500 figs!

And all available again @ www.mirliton.it

[nikharwood]

You can also get some of them from EM4 minis in the UK

[Germy]

The Dungeon stuff was again the work of one guy, Germy, who wanted some Dungeon Monsters/Furniture for himself, designed the lot, and came to us with it.

It's as Leon says, I sat down with a lot of art from Fantasy games to mythology books and put together the ideas for the 10mm monsters. When sculpting I'm not really that interested in copying something already in a larger scale and would rather come up with a new look or take on an idea.

[dicehead]

I liked your 3mm sci-fi too, those robots scare the metal pants of my 2mm troops.

[jchaos79]

3mm fantasy???

Wow I should see that!!

[Germy]

I liked your 3mm sci-fi too, those robots scare the metal pants of my 2mm troops.

Cool 

3mm fantasy???

Wow I should see that!!

Hmm that might be pushing it a bit