“What if Wednesday” (Four Little Words)

Right well it looks like my brilliant idea is going ahead 😊 (I’m full of them you know Dave!), so I thought I’d give a bit of an update of where we’ve got to so far, and try and narrow down the field as to the figure we will all be painting.

Okay so first off I’ll cover when it looks like this will actually happen, a couple of people have asked if we can do it later in the year, which is fine by me (I’m thinking September unless anyone has any objections/better suggestions).

Next we turn to where we’ll get the figure in question from, we’ve had a few offers/suggestions and the three best options in my opinion are…

Dave Stone, has offered to sculpt a figure for this which is incredibly kind of him, it would be really cool to have one of Dave’s resin sculpts (he would then sell it through his business after of course). He’s also offered to just charge £1.00 for said figure plus postage costs, to people taking part, again very kind. The main problem with this is of course postage costs to overseas, I don’t know how much postage to the US or Australia would be (we have people taking part from both), but it would depend on whether it is prohibitive cost wise to just send one figure around the globe, Overseas people what do you think?

Option two is a 3D print, and Simon Moore has been kind enough to extend the same offer as Dave with this option, the problem here is that Simon doesn’t hold the retail rights to the STL files he subscribes too so he could only print free files, this would greatly reduce the options of what figures we can have access too, and the same postage issues as above. We could of course all just just purchase the figures from Etsy or whoever, or if you have a printer the STL files and print your own, but this leaves the issue of the quality of the prints/scale, from different sellers, but what do you lot think?

Third option is to get a figure from a worldwide seller with a good range of single figure sculpts. I have to admit the first name that sprung to my mind (and Keith’s) was Reaper Miniatures (I’m assuming they are available in Australia?) thought here are of course other option here. As I can see the main issue with this would be finding a Reaper figure that Matt (if he takes part) doesn’t already own! 😁

I would like to know your opinions of these options, which do you prefer?

Now turning to the miniature itself, Harry has recently posted a piece on “Computer Generated Fantasy Art”, with this you enter key words as to what you want and the computer generates a suitable image (follow the link to get a better explanation of this), but I thought we could use something similar to determine what sort of figure we want, so if you can take one word from each row below

1, Fantasy Human / Sci/Fi Human / Fantasy Monster / Alien or Robot

2.Fully Armoured / Part Armoured / Fatigues, Uniform / Savage, Native

3. Heavy weapon / Ranged weapon / Melee weapon / Unarmed

4. Your option, one more word that describes what you want….Wizard, Female, Dwarf, Survivor, Bounty Hunter whatever…

So if you are still interested in taking part please let me know your preferred option on where we get the figure, along with your four words and once I know the most popular I’ll either pass it on to Dave/Simon or start looking for that figure!

Till next time (when I really promise to have some painted figures to show you!). Cheers Roger.

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