Blood for the Baron!

Oh yeah, as requested by the Baron here are some shots to show scale.





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Soaps.

Ohh wow!! I've collected miniatures for Warhammer Fantasy Battle in the past (still have a chaos army somewhere) as well as for D&D. So I just love what you're doing with these figures.

I've bookmarked your blog and will be checking it to see what you come up with. The Scout, Doc, and bunch of Muton's you've got done already are just awesome.

That is amazing work! Color me Uber impressed!

New tiny people update at my blog

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Soaps.

Almost creepy - I was looking at your site only yesterday hoping for more!!

These truly are exceptional work - will you be selling them?

these are awesome! I so wish we all could buy a set !

If I thought it was commercially viable then I'd be pestering the guys I sculpt for to let me release a range but I'm sure there would be liscencing issues that would make the whole thing a futile money pit.

The joy of unpainted miniatures is that as long as the shape is fairly generic you can get away with it (Z force troops for example) but a Red Shadow is pretty destinctive and individual (around the face at least) so I doubt it would be a workable project.

Glad you like the stuff folks.

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Soaps.

Soapy, I was just wondering if you could make moulds of these figures, or is it too late once they've bben painted? I'm sure that most of us would dig having a set of these.

Wocha,

Now I would love to get these boys cast up and into production but there are one or two problems in this regard.

Firstly, many of the figures are based on commercially available models and so recasting and selling the conversions would be piracy and I'd get into a lot of trouble.

Secondly, what with all the IP law floating around these days there is a chance that Hasbro (who I think now own the rights to the Action Force line) would slap a law suit, or at least a cease and desist order, on me. Now I don't flatter myself that anything I make would be that popular as to come to the attention of the big boys but seeing as miniature sculpting is my job and a lot of new work comes from word of mouth even a hint of scandal can make the work dry up.

Thirdly the cost of professional mould making and manufacture is cuurently too prohibitive to make a small run financially viable even if I could find a way around the first two points.

All that having been said there is some light at the end of the tunnel. It is however weak and feeble and probably a train coming in the other direction...

A man with a gun in military uniform is absolutely no problem what so ever. I can sculpt and cast men in 80's military kit until the cows come home. Z Force ans SAS force would be no trouble to produce and as I have mentioned the Falklands war range I sculpted for Gripping Beast under the MoFo miniatures line would be perfect for this. The problem is that once you start getting into all of the unique equipment, outfits and uniforms you start to enter murky IP territory. You may get away with a Space Force security trooper (as an unpainted metal miniature) if you called him Bob Bickly Star Ranger! or something and leave it to the punter to paint it up as space force but the clamface mark of the Red Shadows is a little harder to get away with despite the fact that the rest of the uniform is a WWII German.

If there are any IP lawyers out there who can point me in the right direction on the issue then I would be happy to move forward and make a commercially available range of figures. It'd be great to see a whole bunch of tabletop wargames armies based around the Red Shadows and Action Force.

On the project front I have not been idle and 40 odd troopers and a whirlwind cannon are nearly finished along with HMG, mortars and 40 infantry for the Red Shadows. Maybe I'll even get them painted up and on the blog before the end of the year. Don't hold your breath though...

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Soaps.

Oh, that's a shame, but understandable. Would you sidestep the trouble if you sold them already painted, perhaps?