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Figure Prints seem like a cool way to retire your toon.

two_heads_talking wrote:[
From what I remember, all he did was paint them. his sculpting has always been suspect, even when he worked for GW. his paiting was cutting edge 20 years ago, unless he has updated his style, even his painting would be suspect these days. (however, I will be honest I have not seen or am not aware that I have seen any of his recent stuff)

No matter how much painting has changed nowadays, I still think that some work is just timeless. You get that feeling when you look at one of Jes Goodwyn's older miniatures; same with Mike McVey. I was looking at his site and I remembered how things were in 40k 2nd Edition: there's something about the colours, etc, that make them look like exceptionally painted toys. The difference nowadays is that these toys are taken more seriously (a Rhino with battle damage? Unthinkable!) and thus the painting looks more realistic but for the most part not necessarily better.
Hell, he was a master amongst people like the guy (whose name I just can't recall but it's on the back of my mind) who painted Commander Dante of the Blood Angels (one of the first NMM). And look at McVey's painting of the Green Knight, if you can find it... brilliant.

He had a nice Dire Avenger Exarch based on the cover of the 2nd Ed Eldar Codex

His sculpting does suck big time. The first miniature I saw of his was Kal Jerico, 28mm, and a complete disappointment. Later I was probably the only person in the world who didn't hate Lemartes (just his purity seals). Mike, if you're reading this, you're my hero, but you should spend more time thinking out a miniature rather than just bashing some greenstuff together, tossing it inside the blender and shoving in a sculpting tool for good measure.

McVey did some really decent stuff for Chainmail. Granted, nearly the whole line (not just McVey) was mediocre, but it wasn't bad.

Not very impressed. I may pick up some odd singles for D&D though - the official miniature range lacks Gnomes (a problem that will only get worse in 4th), so WoW singles will be a good way to add some variety.

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=133638

Asmodai: Looks like they'll be about 40mm... DND is more
"standard" 25mm, isn't it?

3D printing is the coolest thing ever. I wish I could afford one.

I'm an idiot.

I can afford one of those doofy WoW prints. What I mean is I wish I could afford an actual 3D printer.

$40,000. I guess I could afford it, but it'd have to be REALLY cool to justify it. And it's not THAT cool. Like, stealing some of the kid's college fund cool?

I've been wondering when they were gonna do this. I figured it would be more like a simplified wfb than like heroclix,though. I mean, the original game was a rts. Funny how everybody on warseer loved em but dakka hates em. Their orcs have always looked like a rip off of gw anyway. And the look of the orcs is the only thing gw didn't rip off from somebody else.