Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 22, 2005 9:57:29 GMT 12
Oh My Gosh
ok, so I know I have raved about the sculpting abilities of Tom Meier elsewhere, but man.... I am in awe. I purchased a boxed set of dark sword minis, they are box #1 in a limited edition series of minis based on the artworks of Keith Parkinson. They are sculpted by Tom Meier (thunderbolt mountain is his other range) and produced by darksword of course.
The detail is mind blowing, I swear he's stolen the shrink ray gun from the props room of 'honey I shrunk the kids' and shrunk down a 1/6 scale piece. These minis are in scale, we're talking tiny tiny hands. the eyes are even dotted with a tiny pin prick. The chainmail is the finest mail I have evr seen on a mini and the amount of decorative detail is just .. wow
I've idolised this sculptor from afar for many years, but now I see his work up close and personal and I am a true follower
www.darkswordminiatures.com/parkinson_gallery.html
this was the set I got, the box has been signed in silver ink by parkinson, meier and Jim Ludwig of darksword minis and is numbered 59/99. I was intending on splitting it up and selling off three so I could covere the cost of buying it and shipping, but now I kind of feel like I shouldn't do that
as for painting them, gah, where do I start, they are so perfect without me screwing it all up with a bad paint job. Usually my painting helps to enhance fairly run of the mill minis, but these are .. wow
oh best bit is the two frog guys, those ones I will definately have fun painting
ok, so I know I have raved about the sculpting abilities of Tom Meier elsewhere, but man.... I am in awe. I purchased a boxed set of dark sword minis, they are box #1 in a limited edition series of minis based on the artworks of Keith Parkinson. They are sculpted by Tom Meier (thunderbolt mountain is his other range) and produced by darksword of course.
The detail is mind blowing, I swear he's stolen the shrink ray gun from the props room of 'honey I shrunk the kids' and shrunk down a 1/6 scale piece. These minis are in scale, we're talking tiny tiny hands. the eyes are even dotted with a tiny pin prick. The chainmail is the finest mail I have evr seen on a mini and the amount of decorative detail is just .. wow
I've idolised this sculptor from afar for many years, but now I see his work up close and personal and I am a true follower
www.darkswordminiatures.com/parkinson_gallery.html
this was the set I got, the box has been signed in silver ink by parkinson, meier and Jim Ludwig of darksword minis and is numbered 59/99. I was intending on splitting it up and selling off three so I could covere the cost of buying it and shipping, but now I kind of feel like I shouldn't do that
as for painting them, gah, where do I start, they are so perfect without me screwing it all up with a bad paint job. Usually my painting helps to enhance fairly run of the mill minis, but these are .. wowoh best bit is the two frog guys, those ones I will definately have fun painting
