Beautiful models, I wish you would consider sculpting some from scratch and casting them!
Thanks! It's strange since I received the same comment a number of times lately. As I said, I never considered it for three reasons:
1- I don't know anybody or have any contact with a company which casts miniatures.
2- I reckon there is a BIG difference between sculpting miniatures for yourself and sculpting them for actual production... You would have to have a solid understanding of molds and casting technologies, be able to work digitally and in different scales (which, believe it or not, is much more difficult than 28 mm if you are not used to) and in general it works very differently from what I've always done.
3- as I said this is my hobby, I try to avoid to make it a job not because I dislike the money (god knows if I need them to live a decent life in London) but because is my only escape from life and work stress! I'm enjoying this commission but I already turned down others because they wouldn't let me dedicate to my projects and that's not my idea of hobby.
That said, I would lie if I told you I'm not considering to produce some minis in the future. I always dreamt (like most of us I suppose) to create my own game complete with bg, fluff and my own range of minis, and I always admire the work of people like that guy from Kingdom Death and the ability to launch a Kickstart campaign and actually make it work! I just think times are not mature for it (or maybe I'm not). In this moment I've got enough going on in my life to make it difficult to find a couple of hours per week for my hobby and I don't want to use them for a project which would require my full energies and attention.
Boooo...... thumbs down. just kidding, I love the fat mans cash box,he wouldn't trust anyone from how the fluff describes him. About the youngbloods are you going to give us something unusual, rather than the tough looking teens armed to the teeth we usually get, I hope to see some skinny little dweebs with daggers or maybe even a fat boy Jr.
Hehe, thanks Docj, really interesting advice! I'm not sure what I've got in my mind for the youngbloods will meet your expectations but they surely won't look like tough guys, that much I can assure you! I started working on one of them yesterday and got the frame done, pretty happy about it. he is more like a posh and green duellist, fresh out from a fancy gentlemen's academy and without any understanding of how grim and ferocius Mordheim really is. Think of him as a young dandy noble/merchant's son who thinks he is better than anyone else and will soon learn a tough, tough lesson about not wearing silk and fancy shoes in the streets of the City of Damned.
