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Post by menace on Jul 10, 2007 9:04:52 GMT
'i didn't bother with the lotr comp. dont really like the figs and don't have any so, ya know. '
Pinched this from a thread elsewhere but it is symptomatic of many enthusiast sites,,, what is it that makes LotR either love or hate.... and then i think, how suitable this attitude is to the whole tolkein world..a world of black and white, but the thing that gets me is the quality of the figures is pretty immense for a true 28mm scale... given with GW you will need to clean X amount of flash etc, but otherwise the sculpts are almost identical to the PJ representation... oh blah... The thing is LotR ARE VERY DIFFICULT to paint well, they require a different attitude and short brush strokes, i think,and it's only an idea, if GW had of said OK we'll make LotR 32mm to make them differ, you would have a mad mad fan base of mini painters..hence my Question, Do U think GW made a mistake??? I Do
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Post by wolffang on Jul 10, 2007 9:22:47 GMT
Maybe, that's something you can only know by going back in time and changing the line altogether. Personally, I like them and have quite a lot of the older figures (up untill Helm's Deep), but I like the more recent ones as well. I somehow always find myself painting WHFB figures though. In answer to your question: perhaps. We might never know. Cheers, Wolfie
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Post by Tim C on Jul 10, 2007 9:52:03 GMT
I certainly think there size is what puts alot of people off them, they are pretty good minis and I as you know have painted a fair few. They are not easy but what I think makes them unpopular is the films and the fact that they are very limited to any sort of variation. A 40k space marine or a Fantasy Orc can be painted in a myriad of ways and still be fitting with the theme whereas Lotr is very restrictive with what you can do with them and still be within the theme. Did GW make a mistake probably but only in as much as they should have made them a bit bigger. Having said that I love the minis and will keep buying and when I can be bothered painting them too.
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Post by matty1001 on Jul 10, 2007 14:09:12 GMT
Take a trip to Paris for the Mix Open, or any of the big painting events and you find that the true 28mm is a favorite choice. You see alot of stuff from Hasslefree and GW's LoTR range, so it seems they are the painters models of choice. Just not the gamers.
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Post by menace on Jul 11, 2007 11:10:44 GMT
Agreed Matty, i've not been long enough in the hobby to give a quantifiable explanation, my observations are based solely on a few sites i visit, any recommendations to the expanse of the hobby would be gratefully received, especially in 28mm, as i feel that's where the hobby is taking me
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Post by bruenor on Jul 11, 2007 13:55:49 GMT
Did GW make a mistake with LOTR, all in all I would say no, it's seems to have captured the imagination of a new generation, as a lot of the kids I know love LOTR games and minis, and have gone onto buying more core GW stuff, after the LOTR stuff. Personally I don't own any of it, past the first rulebook and I was given that, and it's nothing to do with the look of the minis apart from the size, I would have liked them to be in scale with the current GW stuff, so it could easily be mixed and matched to suit, and that would have allowed for as larger variation on the movies themes, Nice minis, just not my cup of tea, I'm afraid. Although that Dragon is tempting.............
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Post by matty1001 on Jul 11, 2007 21:13:45 GMT
Agreed Matty, i've not been long enough in the hobby to give a quantifiable explanation, my observations are based solely on a few sites i visit, any recommendations to the expanse of the hobby would be gratefully received, especially in 28mm, as i feel that's where the hobby is taking me Iv been in the hobby less time than you lol But all my observations are also based just on websites. GD and Paris Mix Open will be my first big events. Hasslefree make 28mm stuff if you havn't seen any of it. And Spyglass (although currently not available due to Steve's illness) have very small delicate minis. Other than them, im not sure of any others that havn't been caught with 'scale creep'. Though there has to be some. O thunderbolt mountain (I think) Tom Mieirs stuff is tiny and packed full of detail.
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