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 tomball0706 wrote:
Just, wow man, that's incredible. Any chance of a shot next to a leg or something, this thing is huge and I'd love to see it to scale next to a human being

I found this in another thread. This thing is huge!

8' x3' x3' according to the first pic lower corner.

Funny, this work of art may have displaced an image in my head.
When I thought of the "ideal" of gothic I thought this:


The only thing I can compare this to is Kris Kuksi's works but less cluttered... more thoughtful.http://www.kuksi.com/

I think the element I can most applaud is the conscious effort to include the scale of 28mm in the work what has fired everyone's emotions is the amazing backdrop for the game we play within, it has a built-in immersion.

I like how the "statue" seems like a greater "work in progress" which points to the emperor not quite completing all he set out to do.
I could see this structure being one of many projects where no-one else knew it's outcome and so it sits as-is.

Who am I kidding, an object you can stare at for a long time and keep finding something new, even interring the brush that "gave it's life" to the project... sentimental soul, well done.

Perfection. I can't describe it any other way.

You are an Avatar of the Hobby.

awesome man

Really amazing to see this come together.

Man, it would be better for me without the text personally, maybe thats because words cannot express how good it is, maybe im just jealous !
One thing i am sure of, is that one has not seen much better than this, modelling wise, in 25+ years of the hobby.
Top stuff and well done.

In three words:
Ho Lee gak.
That is staggeringly beautiful, and represents a truly insane amount of work. If that isn't in Warhammer World by the end of the month, overlooking the museum in there, I'll be shocked.

WOW...

I saw the progress and like it, but wondered if it would work together or be "too much" or get a "cluttered" look.

And now it is ready i see, it, REALLY does work!
You have to have a VERY good eye to see this far ahead.

The final and painted product is so much more amazing and beautifull as i expected.

This is truly worth the title "the golden throne".

Now I really want one too! ;-)

Needs moar zombie Emprah.

You do not need me to tell you this, but let me just say that you, Sir, have achieved a rare merging of the grotesque and the sublime that spans the history of architecture and tears at the battlemets of fixed views o art. It is truly glorious and the text is evocative in its insight. Let this be a prime example of gothic art. If there be a more fitting specimen, I do not know of it.

Should i rise to power one day, I'm getting a gate like this

I got a chance to see this at Adepticon this last weekend. It was amazing. Great work.

That is perhaps the most unbelievably good model I have ever seen! I had always tried to envision the Golden Throne ever since I first read about it in the 6th edition rulebook, but my imagination fell far short of the magnificence of this piece. It really does belong in a museum, maybe on some kind of display tour visiting 40k events all over the world so many players can see it in person!

The amount of work this must have taken, the amount of time, is worthy of the utmost respect towards your achievement. I hope that at some point you can take pictures of it with one of your wonderfully painted armies. For me without the 28mm miniatures for scale all I see is a mannequin and a bunch of home depot crown molding pieces. I guess without seeing it in regards to the universe it's supposed to be in the whole massiveness is lost to me, the utter ridiculousness of what it's supposed to be scale wise. I don't know how to describe how I feel about it. Like I said the work it must have taken is truly awesome and I applaud your effort so hopefully you'll get to take some pics of it with the backgrounds and vibes of the army pics on your site to suspend the disbelief. I know the fan/hardcore smoochers will hate me for seeing the underlying parts more than the whole but that is the point of discussion with regards to all art, and the point of art is, after all, to make the paint not be paint but be a picture, or the parts not be parts but a whole. Who knows maybe it doesn't look like all the parts in person. Either way, congrats on the work ethic to see such a big project through to completion, even most so called professional fine artists I do gallery shows with can't finish all their paintings by the deadlines. Looking forward to watching your next endeavor.

“For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling in which fear and respect coagulated into a strangely pleasing feeling of humility, a feeling which the philosophers of the eighteenth century had famously termed the sublime.

But then had come a transformation to which we were still the heirs.... Over the course of the nineteenth century, the dominant catalyst for that feeling of the sublime had ceased to be nature. We were now deep in the era of the technological sublime, when awe could most powerfully be invoked not by forests or icebergs but by supercomputers, rockets and particle accelerators. We were now almost exclusively amazed by ourselves.”
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work


Thank you sir, for your labors. It truly was...sublime.

That is one of the most impressive things I have ever seen!! Bravo!!

WOW

Simply stunning

First off, thanks everyone for your comments. I have really been blown away by the response! I am glad pretty much everyone who has seen it has found something in it to enjoy. Success!

Second, I updated the blog with a wrap up of my experience at the con:

http://gmmstudios.blogspot.com/2015/03/building-golden-throne-part-10.html

Until next big project!

That is the most amazing 40k related thing ever and though i never thought of what the golden throne looked like i now like to think that it looks like this

Every now and again i see "the best piece ever". Think i'll call this the "best piece i couldn'nt ever have imagined". WOW. allow me to offer a couple tons of respect!

This literally made me drool with excitement! Amazing craftsmanship! You are a true artist!

Holy emprah, just attempting to to pay attention to the details is mindboggling

Gundor2 wrote:
I got a chance to see this at Adepticon this last weekend. It was amazing. Great work.

That's where I saw it too. This thing blew our minds in person. It was incredible.

Good sir!! please may i have the number for Beelzebub ? for i to would like to sell my soul as you did,, then i could paint like you!

Thanks as always everyone!

 Tyno2025 wrote:

Gundor2 wrote:
I got a chance to see this at Adepticon this last weekend. It was amazing. Great work.

That's where I saw it too. This thing blew our minds in person. It was incredible.

Moments like this I wish I could wear a tshirt with my logo on it and not feel "tryhard." Too bad we didn't run into each other and thank you!