This got posted on the oldhammer facebook page:
"A retake of the Slambo shots that I posted the other day to include the MM90 Chaos Dwarf Mini Me, painted by Stuart Thomas, Phil Lewis and Steve Mussared"
(http://i.imgur.com/Y3KtzyX.jpg) (https://imgur.com/Y3KtzyX)
Soooooo wich one is yours? :D
edit: will probably not be the ones on round bases, they are recent additions.
Second from the left, Peter.
Cheers - Phil.
Very nice
Quote from: Techno on 13 September 2017, 07:19:57 AM
Second from the left, Peter.
Cheers - Phil.
Nice paintjob!
I have those lying around actually, should het them painted!
Quote from: Techno on 13 September 2017, 07:19:57 AM
Second from the left, Peter.
Cheers - Phil.
Very nice, two very sharp looking axes , I hope you have a plaster or two handy ;D ;D
Quote from: Techno on 13 September 2017, 07:19:57 AM
Second from the left, Peter.
Cheers - Phil.
I was genuinely going to type - before I scrolled down and saw this *AND* before I saw Peter's edit - that the blood red one was probably the most likely candidate... ;)
Quote from: Orcs on 13 September 2017, 08:41:56 AM
Very nice, two very sharp looking axes , I hope you have a plaster or two handy ;D ;D
OI !! :P
Cheers - Phil
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
To me they look very drunk, absolutely plastered in fact ! :'( :'(
The one on the left looks like one of the metal 'fakes' for the back of a box shot...(Heroquest ?...I can't remember).....If Mike McVey didn't paint that, it's a damn good forgery.
The only two plastics (for certain ?) are the one 'wot I dun' and the one on the far right.
Cheers - Phil
The left One was labeled as the prototype for heroquest.
Think the ones on the round bases are finecast.
Sounds about right, Peter.
When games were produced.....One (if not THE) first things that had to be done was getting the box done, and off to the printers...(And back...ready to put everything in !!) .....The plastic figures could take a LONG time to get sculpted and then turned into a plastic sprue.
What tended to happen (as far as the figures were concerned) was a three times scale figurine would be made.....and from that the sculptors would do a 'copy' in green stuff (as near as possible) to the size the plastic figure would ultimately be produced in.....That was pressed, and sent back to the studio, as a metal....Painted up....I'd photograph it....and that was another bit of 'stuff' ready to go off to the printers.
I don't know how they do it now....But in those days (over a quarter of a century ago)...The contents on the back of the box, were effectively as accurate as possible 'mock ups'.
Cheers - Phil
What You See more and more these Days is 3d renders of the sculpts.
So i'm guessing a 3d printer is used To make the First mock-ups.
Is that pic from an old white dwarf?
I don't think so.
I believe my own figure might have appeared in WD as a single shot.......Then I took it home.....It was MINE. ;D ;D ;D
(I wonder who's got it now.)
Cheers - Phil
I asked on fb. Will let You know.
On the shelves of a Guy called Richard 'orclord' hale . He replied himself.
Wow, that one in the middle shows the current scale creep!
Really nice paint job on all, mind :)
Here you go Phil
Richard Orclord Hale
"Pass him my regards, it's been too long, but he buried himself in the heart of the South West Wales mountains and I never find the time to get there."
I know Richard, from way back.
Very nice chap...I like him a lot....He's must have the majority of my old figures....Including the Page 3 Dark elves....Which I trust he'll keep hidden. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
"Time to "expose" them... not that they aren't already. :) "
sorry Techno :D