This entire thing is a recast with a good bit of modificationon to the arms and some paint experimentation.
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| Author: | Asphalt [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Tomb Spyder |
This entire thing is a recast with a good bit of modificationon to the arms and some paint experimentation.
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| Author: | Keenan [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
That looks AWESOME! What scale is it?? |
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| Author: | Greyryder [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
That's awesome. Do want! |
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| Author: | Dark Horse [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
Big fan of this. |
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| Author: | pluv [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
The brown and green give him a really weathered look. That came out great. |
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| Author: | drbindy [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
The painting is awesome man. I too want to see a pic for scale though. |
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| Author: | Asphalt [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
He is a full body cast of a Warhammer Necron Tomb Spyder. The damn thing was full pewter and is not one of their better casts. All of it's legs were broken when I got it and it was just so freakin heavy. I will did him out later today and take a pic of him menacing a joe fig. They are pretty nicely scaled to one another. The original model also had one very short arm and one gimy blaster arm. I used styrene to lengthen them. |
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| Author: | Asphalt [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
It isn't a huge monster. But I think it is more than large enough to be damn menacing.  
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| Author: | Keenan [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
It's about the same size as the Spy-Troops flying "bug". So it certainly works. |
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| Author: | Asphalt [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
I thought so. |
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| Author: | Taliesin Crow [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
That is too freakin cool! |
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| Author: | AdrienVeidt [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
With some ball joints on the arms and hips, and some hinge joints elsewhere on the legs, this would be stonkingly cool. Sell it in parts - body, arms, and legs - and let us bash in the joints. I've always liked the WarHammer designs, they just don't know how much money they could make by increasing their scale. |
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| Author: | Dark Horse [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
^^^^^ Lol, that's a joke right? They sell plastic sprues that cost next to nothing for four times the price of a single figure. |
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| Author: | Asphalt [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
yeah dude, I don't think it is possible for GW to turn a higher profit. You can spend 60 bucks on a "miniature" that has less plastic in it than a single joe. |
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| Author: | AdrienVeidt [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tomb Spyder |
Maximizing the possible profit from a niche market isn't the same as maximizing the profit from a larger market. They emphasize the gameplay aspect of WH over all other aspects, which I couldn't care less about since you have to have friends in order play. Increasing the scale of their miniatures and selling them without so much emphasis on the gameplay would bring them in even more money, imho. We all know that 18th scale is the only true toy scale. |
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