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ChaplainSeverus wrote:BRA-FREAKING-VO!

I didn't read the post I just gawked at the pictures. I hope that this isn't just a single model and you'll somehow be able to cast and sell this.

Very creative & very well done. I wish I had your skills.

Interrogator-Chaplain Severus

They're being made to cast and sell.

so were you gonna finish painting them or not?

Update 4/10/08
Got some more pics for you guys to drool over. Sculpting should be completely done within the next few days, so consider this final call for anyone who is interested in joining in on our little club project. Just PM me if you are.

reminds me of the movie wizard

I totally want some of these models! 16, I think... Enough for 2 squads of 8... Yes...

Nurglitch wrote:Those Moas are such a rip-off of Chocobos.

Are they? Thats like the kiddies who say World of Warcraft invented the netspeak they hear. Just because you saw it first in a particular computer game, doesnt mean it came from there. Riding flightless birds have been a staple of fantast art for a long long time. I saw 70's art that depicted similar, an early cover of White Dwarf even used it (GW used to use 70's fantasy art a lot while they were still an RPG magazine) and I know that is not the first reference in the genre.

Anyway I am getting single squadron of 8, after working through a thread on the subject in 40K Tactics.

Put me down as intrested in a squad or two! those are very nicely done, I like them alot!

Centurion.

Centurion wrote:Put me down as intrested in a squad or two! those are very nicely done, I like them alot!

Centurion.

Okay, I'll send you a PM with the details.

Are they? Thats like the kiddies who say World of Warcraft invented the netspeak they hear. Just because you saw it first in a particular computer game, doesnt mean it came from there.

Well said. Incidentally, Nurglitch I've never even played final fantasy. The only reason I even know what a chocobo is is because people have mentioned them when they saw the concept art.

Update 4/13/08

Tah-Dah! Sculpting is complete, and the originals are off for casting. I think the final product looks stunning. I want to thank everyone who was supportive of this project.

Here's all the parts and such. Notice the wicked claws on the moa's feet.
The neck has a joint at each end, so there will be lots of different poses you can put the moa in when you assemble them.

The beauty of the design is that the rider can be completed with just about any 28mm scale torso and head, so no matter what you play, the riders will fit in with the rest of the army. Here, the model has been completed with some regular IG plastics, but obviously those are not included. Notice that the left arm is holding the reigns.

And for those club members who are just getting the riders so they can put them on horses, you can see that the legs also fit very well on a regular steed.

Orlanth wrote:Are they? Thats like the kiddies who say World of Warcraft invented the netspeak they hear. Just because you saw it first in a particular computer game, doesnt mean it came from there. Riding flightless birds have been a staple of fantast art for a long long time. I saw 70's art that depicted similar, an early cover of White Dwarf even used it (GW used to use 70's fantasy art a lot while they were still an RPG magazine) and I know that is not the first reference in the genre.

What amazes me is that only Strimen got the joke, even when he explained it...

The "joke", if you will, was that Moas and other flightless birds are what inspired fantasy birds like Chocobos, with the implication that Moas being derivative from Chocobos is absurd.

I'd like to point out that the sculpted models in this thread are very very cool, and that I like them. When/where can we place orders?

Nurglitch wrote:When/where can we place orders?

Just send me a pm if you are interested.

I am going to need 6 of these for chocobo racing.

Where is KaPat when you need him? he would love these.

Nurglitch wrote:
The "joke", if you will, was that Moas and other flightless birds are what inspired fantasy birds like Chocobos, with the implication that Moas being derivative from Chocobos is absurd.

But real moas were not known for being ridden, my point remains. Too many people do think that something they see they also prevuiously saw in a video game/cartoon is da suxxor ripoff, and dont look at any media prior to what is before them on the TV screen. To prove the point several people brought up the chocobo reference.

How much will these be?

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

They have already finished there production run, there wont be anymore I believe.

Centurion.

I can't say definitively that they're will be another run but in the past when there was enough of a list interested parties to be worth while they did additional runs.

Love the model but i think that it need to look more like a chocobo [final fantasy, they are so cute] but this is awsome work, as soon as you paint one post the results