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Great news from Kev (passed on to golinaid by Kev's niece)

"Operation over
All well, feeling much better
Regards Kev (GoblinMaster) Adams"

Good to hear!

And I second Panic's idea to divide into a fantasy and SciFi set.

 Panic wrote:
Yeah,
Maybe they should get the 28 sculpts in,
then decide on the best 20 that make it onto the moulds?

And then Maybe separate them into groups for purchase fantasy and scific or silly?

They obviously won't do that. It would be rather insulting to the sculptors who donated their time and effort to "not make the cut" - especially since they all appear to be professionals in the industry, rather than if say, you or I decided to try to put together a figure with greenstuff and send it in....

Separating them into sci-fi and fantasy might work. Excluding people won't.

yeah,
I agree with your sentiments but there has to be some QC.
Especially when you consider that some of the minis will be rushed to make the deadline/get involved.
Being included shouldn't be purely because it's a free sculpts from someone who's the heart is in the right place.

I see nothing wrong with - 'Thank you for your sculpt but we decided to use other contributors submissions'
Cruel to be kind and all that, if your work is subpar, you’ve got to accept being told so by your peers and customers.

Including poor sculpts will put people off buying a set and IMO that is not acceptable.
The first two sculpts I can see myself looking at as something I can buy convert and include in my grot horde.
In my opinion I think the last sculpt is subpar.

I also got involved in the Judge minty charity mini - They raised £8000+ total!
I gave £15 and I got a sweet mini to boot, I love the concept of Aid/Charity miniatures I think it’s an amazing direction for the hobby.
I think that judge minty mini also shows you don't need 30 sculpts to get pledges! just 1 or 2 good ones.

I love the idea of GoblinAid and hope to buy something soon, and if nothing takes my fancy I'll paypal a few quid.
After this terrible assault happened I've been made aware of how many of Kev's minis I have! and I want to help.
Like my blood bowl goblin team... Kev made those! and the GoblinAid link appears on that Stuff of ledgend page! Boom!

and I adore them!

Panic...

lots of Edit to fix my post!

"The latest GoblinAid sculpt; this natty little Wizard is by George Fairlamb......

"

(ok, who's he trying to kid, goblin wizard?, goblin in stolen robes impersonating a wizard more like.... real goblin wizards are more individualistic/scruffy/insane, but a neat sculpt none the less, LOL)

I need this mini, Morley naysayers take note!! The man can indeed sculpt!

You beat me to it with that one

(and I must have him, my minis are sick and he'll frighten them better)

 Panic wrote:
yeah,

In my opinion I think the last sculpt is subpar

In fairness, the pic on my screen is at least 3x the size of the actual sculpt, I have him in hand and he's barely 15mm tall....and is actually a very nice sculpt, not at all subpar IMHO.

OI! So this is where all frothers gone!? What is this about Kev recovery? Send him all the best!

I will make a gobbo and give it to you at salute geronimo!

Woot, sounds great Navarro!

Yeah I did not realize how serious his injuries were at first :-( but it is good to hear that the op went fine.

 RiTides wrote:

Yeah I did not realize how serious his injuries were at first

Very severe, nearly lost his eyesight and the police will be charging the bastards with attempted murder when they catch them.

Something else being done for Goblinaid

(no idea whether the finished article will be cast for sale like the warband gobbos, or if the original will be going for auction)



WIP pictures of a Goblin bust being made by Philip Hynes — I get knocked down but I get up again.....

That bust is fantastic, I hope its put up for sale as well.

 Cyporiean wrote:
That bust is fantastic, I hope its put up for sale as well.

Well they've had an offer of help from a resin caster (Black Dragon Castings) so fingers crossed at least some get made up

and I agree it looks great (and it's not even finished yet!)

hope the bust goes up for sale! That one is awesome.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Something else being done for Goblinaid

(no idea whether the finished article will be cast for sale like the warband gobbos, or if the original will be going for auction)

Spoiler:

WIP pictures of a Goblin bust being made by Philip Hynes — I get knocked down but I get up again.....

Why'm I getting a Fat Les vibe from the caption - Gobthumping, perhaps?

Goblinaid

Here's Mark Cragg's goblin; this is turning into one hell of a set 8)

- Dags

yeah!

Want!

Panic...

I like it but looks like folks are going for sculpting 40k rather than fantasy gobbos! (mostly)

 RiTides wrote:
I like it but looks like folks are going for sculpting 40k rather than fantasy gobbos! (mostly)

I will go for generic fantasy instead.

Sounds great, Navarro!

I've dropped Dakka's desire for casts of the Philip Hynes bust to be made available for sale/auction

(if possible... I'm assuming it's a size that makes this reasonable, not life sized)

so fingers crossed there


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Goblinaid

Ready for yet another Gobbo? Here's Mati Zander's....

- Dags

Black Dragon Castings/MDP have kindly offered to cast up the bust & plinth (again, limited numbers) so that'll be available, too...sometime after Salute. Couple more sculptors confirmed, this is turning into a veritable horde rather than a small warband....

 geronimo wrote:
Black Dragon Castings/MDP have kindly offered to cast up the bust & plinth (again, limited numbers) so that'll be available, too...sometime after Salute. Couple more sculptors confirmed, this is turning into a veritable horde rather than a small warband....

And the crowd goes wild!

That's great news it certainly sounds that this will get expensive for me..... but all for a good cause


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Goblin Boar Rider from Dave Soderquist incoming



love it

Goblinaid

Another day, another Gobbo
This one from Kieran Billings from the LAF forum

Whoa! I absolutely Love these last 2 and I don't know why! The goblin boar, looks fantastic, and this thing is just plain cool... whatever it is

He (thinks he) is the law!, another cool sculpt

Goblinaid
Steven 'Inso' Merchant's Goblin Judge.....

yeah,
I really need that mini.
I'm making a crew of regular dark judges from dark world that he will fit into nicely.

Panic...

Oh. My. Grud!

Well it's good that the futuristic gobbos are popular with you guys because so far I'm not as much a fan of them. But I love the fantasy gobbos, which are the ones I'm after (and the only ones that I could use) so hopefully they split it into 2 groups for fantasy/futuristic (maybe more with the number of contributions coming in).