Constantine wrote:
mertaal wrote:
I don't particularly mind the GW Beorn (human form), but at the same time, it really doesn't fit my image of him. I really do imagine him as an oversized lumberjack with bushy auburn beard, and not… well, Leutenant Warf.
The above is exactly how I imagined Beorm myself and I was dissapointed by P.J.'s rendition of him. But I have to say that GW's human form model is great and dispelled any concerns I had about him. SouthernDunedain did you delete the images?
I'm actually contemplating how easy or difficult it will be to properly greenstuff a big bushy beard and slightly less "crazeh" hair on him. Below the waist he's pretty much perfect. But then again, I have something against fine cast.
Having recently broken my rule for TMFKAB (the-model-formerly known as Bolg,) and spending about an hour cleaning it up, my opinion of models which are "designed for fine cast" is that they're less disastrous than the "remastered" figures, but still have problems, just on a smaller scale. Usable, but an unreasonable amour of work for such a high priced figure. And there were still a few pieces of spiky detail missing.
Having said that, Bjorn does look like a very simple model full of round volumes, which fine cast seems to deal with better than spikes and protrusions.
But there are a lot of very high quality miniature producers in the 32mm scale which will, presumably, be appropriately out of scale for Bjorn instead of inappropriately out of scale for anything else in LotR!
So far my "to buy" list is exactly the same as you, BigDog: the book, Tauriel and a box of Mirkwood rangers which may or may not get expanded in to a full list of Mirkwood elves, depending on how I like them.
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