Chest of Colors forum

mahon wrote:there are resin copies of them? or do you mean there aren't any and that's why you'd kill for one?

I don't think they are available. But imagine that before Wizkids went offline they had another 2-3 expansions ready to release. These minis may never see the daylight.

Nameless wrote:of course, James' sculpts made for Reaper are weak, oldschool and generally meh

I always wondered Morf, perhaps you'd be willing to share some industry secrets. How do manufacturer's guidelines for a sculptor look like? How detailed are manufacturer's orders?

I can only speak for myself. It all starts with a concept.
There are ones that I treat like final in the way I want the mini to follow it exactly. And there are some that are to provide basic idea how the mini should look like. With the former, I am still willing to listen to hints and manufacturing suggestions from the sculptor. In that respect, James is an extreme pro. I agree with 99% of his suggestions.

When working with good sculptors, roughly one in two miniatures remains untouched after the first presentation of finished pictures, rest has to undergo some changes.
Some (ones that work in Fimo) keep updating me on every stage. Some hit me we a ready product and wait for comments.


One thing that may not be obvious is the production awareness of the sculptor. Some, especially the less experienced, make mistakes that make casting the mini a nightmare.

I should write a book like that guy from Mongoose

thx for info!

that's one of the things which often seem to be forgotten - the more complex and the less flat the model is, the more difficult it will be either to produce or to assemble later. thanks for the info, Morf.

BTW you have an excellent artist/painter creating the concept art - this may be both your advantage (I loved so many of these pics!) and disadvantage (hard to turn into miniature, sets expectation level high). But fortunately a few sculptors managed to deal with it!

Thanks, yeah, Marek is amazing and he finally set his sails for the big comic book world. He is about to finish a graphic novel with Warren Ellis. For those not interested in comic books, Ellis = Tarantino or maybe Christopher Nolan in the movies. Dark, twisted stuff.

I have a couple of more concept artists that will be gradually introduced.
One's here, LiamC:

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The other one is more of a comic book style.

will it be made into a mini? as much as it looks cool as a picture, I am afraid it wouldn't make a good mini. pretty static - while people tend to prefer dynamic models, it looks powerful and stubborn thanks to the static stance, but might not be going in line with current trends.

just my 0.02...

Warren Ellis, that's a very big name in the comic book world so quite a big accomplishment.
Can you keep me updated about this please?

Skrit wrote:Warren Ellis, that's a very big name in the comic book world so quite a big accomplishment.
Can you keep me updated about this please?

https://www.avatarpress.com/titles/warre ... eins-womb/

The cover is not by Marek, tg!
From what I saw it is awesome. Also, he is working with another huge name (a writer, this time a book writer) but that is still a secret project, once it goes official, I'll let you know.


Mahon, yes, this will be a mini and I think the static statuesque pose works for big time hero/villains as long as not all of the minis are like that. We'll see how it works.

the LiamC concept are is
good luck in turning it into model

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I think it's a pretty decent sculpt, unfortunately the paintjob doesn't help it...

Oh this one is quite interesting, i agree with Mahon here about it but i do like it still