Found these - the wise words of Techno

http://www.redkobold.com/sculpting-modelling/sculpting-the-prequel-by-phil-lewis/
http://www.redkobold.com/sculpting-modelling/sculpting-101-by-phil-lewis/

Not stalking 

Thanks for sharing this. Only had a vauge idea about the process and it was well worth going through it (btw - well written, Phil).

Enjoyed the emphasis on safety in the prequel article - we laugh about it but lots of exciting ways to damage ourselves that we don't always think about, particular doing certain things on an occasional bases. As one who is currently making  a bunch of brass wire pikes, eye protection is particularly important during the cutting phase! (Phil notes the high velocity projectile that can result).

Incidently, fsn, adding a disclaimer only emphasizes what you're about! 

Disappointed there wasnt a link so you could buy them as  illuminated  manuscripts

Increasing the size of Phil's head is going to make him look even MORE grotesque



IanS

Quote from: Fenton on 17 June 2017, 03:14:36 PM
Disappointed there wasnt a link so you could buy them as  illuminated  manuscripts

 

Look, it's Techno!

Nobby.

You're a complete and utter OIK.

I think I was working for Heartbreaker when I wrote those.....Stroll on.....Must have been over twenty years ago. 

Increasing the size of my head, Ian ?
I go and hide under the desk with embarrassment when someone finds something like this...there's probably a fair bit more.

And you're not to go looking for it, Nobby.

Cheers - Phil 

Did you really sculpt Battletech stuff for Ral Parthal

Why hide under the desk? Our path is wat made us the man (or woman) we are today.

Quote from: Fenton on 17 June 2017, 05:57:42 PM
Did you really sculpt Battletech stuff for Ral Parthal

Certainly did, Steve !

Lots of Mechs.......A few 'tanks' (which I hated) and a few stands of teeny weeny little men.

In those days (before the advent of low temp/low pressure moulds) everything was made out of blocks/slabs of Milliput..(and sanded down....YUK !! Milliput dust everywhere)..and it was so TEDIOUS, because you never seemed to finish a 'figure'....This is basically why I hate doing 'straight line' work so much.
My limit on straight line work now stops at guns for 30mm figures. Beyond that, I start losing the will to live.

When I made quite a few of the 'clicky' Mechs for WizKidz (?) at least we were able to use plasticard, which made life an awful lot easier.

Still got dozens of the metal Mechs, and the complete first two 'sets' of the clicky Mechs, somewhere in a box in one of the sheds or barns.

Cheers - Phil

http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Heartbreaker_Fantasy_Sculptors
What amuses me is that the caption to the piece is "Heartbreaker - Phil Lewis: Evil Wizard". Well, we've all thought it.

Oik alert!

They were an interesting couple of articles, Nothing to be embarrassed about Phil

I still have a couple of boxes of the "clicky" mechs and the big drop ship.  They gave a really good game - must get them out again

What I'm coming round to is the realisation that our Techno, the shambling, bewildered, but much loved warning to us all has been knocking around for a long, long time. He pops up everywhere (which may be something to do with his new medication) and his legacy runs through the hobby like a thin vein of Techno goodness in a ... no lost that metaphor ...

Anyway, I just think we should treat the mumbling ancient with a bit of respect. I mean there's an e-bay account that is titled "Fantasy 28mm figures ex GW sculptors Phil Lewis Kevin Adams Chaz Elliot etc".

Actually, I'd be interested in a bit of a bio, Techno. Who you worked for, what you've done. People you've met. You keep dropping in these little anecdotes  - "Yeah, well, so Prince Andrew asked me to make a kobold archer, and I thought 'well this isn't the guy who made 'Purple Rain'", "the Chief Druid was actually quite pleased to model for the figure ...", "so after we sobered her up, Doris Day spent a week sleeping on our sofa" -  that kind of thing.

So, a mini bio  ... unless you want me to write it?   

I'd include your music career 

His interview for Chaos Realms Blog starts something like " I was feeling ill and the wife gave me Lord of the Rings to read......."

I would like to know what came before this...Coal mining?...Water Divining?, Stone Circle designer?...

The Completely unauthorised biography of Phil (Techno) Lewis by FS(Oik)N

Chapter 1: In which Techno discovers himself, and has to wear mittens for a month.

Well, Man, I think, y'know we should start the story in the 60s. All we talked about was like, the war and music.  All my friends used to get high chewing leaks and then they'd bitch about the war and who was right and who was wrong and what they could do to stop it. "Nutin." I would say. "Kids like you ain't gonna change nutin!"

"Nutin!" they would say, 'cos like we talked in them days "don't you mean 'nothing'?" That's how it was in the '60's man. Real icy, and real sharp. Like a blade made of ice. I wasn't interested in the war. I just wanted to do music, man. I joined the school band, and played the biggest, baddest drum I could find. That's when they called me Phil the Kettle, but the music was for squares, man. squares. They weren't hip to the beat, they weren't cool, they couldn't make you cry and make you want to scream in joy, like when you accidentally sit down too fast in the carrot field. The were square. I would say that to my friends.

"Daddy-o's," I would say, "This is the '60's! We should be all about making sweet, sweet love, not war, and making sweet, sweet music - not square music. I say we should listen to this cool cat, who's really making cool, cool music!" ( I didn't own a thesaurus in those days) "Forget about your Frederick II of Prussia, this hep cat Haydn is the man!"

Yeah man. The 1760's. Great times.      

You lot are cruising for a bruising.   

I'll have to do a bit of checking.....But the singer (obviously named after me..... ) has definitely got some very strange parallels to me, in the respect of 'names' I've given to some of the ranges of figures I've made, in the dim and distant past.....And then found that this 'wannabe' Phil Lewis has used them for the names of albums he's recorded.

Synchronicity (?).......Is that the right word ?

Maybe he's my alter ego.

Cheers - Phil

Not forgetting the hair!

Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.

So, yep, synchronicity seems about right.

Like orcs I have a box of "clicky" mechs and assorted tanks, infantry etc. and I'm now wondering which cupboard it's in and whether I can find them and get in a game or two before my butterfly attention wanders elsewhere.

I remember being desperate to get a "clicky" Madcat IV, can't remember why now. Perhaps it was particularly effective for it's weight class, perhaps it was going to be part of a particular scenario, maybe it was sculpted by Phil and I was captivated by the awesomeness of the sculpting!

We only played one game using the rules for them and, having decided that the dials were so ludicrously small and the colours so hard to tell apart that it was unplayable, we reverted to the "proper" Battletech rules. We were always talking about painting the models but, as far as I remember, none of us ever did.

No more likely a doppelganger, - the nice half of Phil