Well the past couple of weeks have seen no real hobby time other than online perusing, can't get the mojo started to do any painting but hopefully that will happen this weekend. The TYW project is still in the planning stages, so no further forward with that, just finding it a bit hard to focus on anything at the moment, but that will change for sure!!
With the passing of Graham it has made me take stock of the range of figures I purchased from him and where to go with this. Theya re lovely figures and will match Crann Tara and Minden very nicely and at the moment the range consists of Prussian Musketeers and Grenadiers, Austrian Musketeers and Grenadiers, Hungarian Musketeers and Grenadiers, Grenzers and artillery crew. These figures come with command and by a paint job and some hat swaps the two main protagonists are pretty much covered, Prussian fusilers still to get done plus cavalry and also maybe light and freikorp in the future. My main aim was to do this as a retirement hobby but I think I will start it earlier than that as I still have just under three years to go before that kicks in.
These photos will give an idea of the figures in the range so far, I am still unsure whether to just use them for my own entertainment or market them and sell them to the public, jury still out on this one, I like the idea of getting them out there but still not a hundred percent on this, if I do I will need to get a couple of production moulds made and then get fusilier and cavalry figures sculpted, plenty to think about over the coming days.
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Hmmm - that is quite a conundrum for you Donnie - on the one hand, they are nice figures and definitely worth producing, but on the other, do you want all the work and hassle of getting the rest of the "range" c=sculpted, arranging with a manufacturer to make the moulds, getting them into production etc etc? If you want a part (full??) time job in retirement, that may end up costing you money to boot, fair enough - I am not sure I would be up to the challenge - I prefer my hobby to be completely a hobby - but then, you are obviously already part way down the track, as you got to this point by being involved in a co production with Graham in the first place.....
ReplyDeleteI will probably get the whole shebang up and running in the next year or so as I think it could be a different part of the hobby that may be a bit of fun, I have a bit of money set aside and moulds and greens all done for the main stuff, so wouldn't be too bad, we shall see as you say quite a conundrum!
DeleteVery nice sculpts. With figures still in green stuff, are you doing the sculpting yourself? I think it would be a shame not to have these beautiful figures on the market but certainly understand keeping them to yourself.
ReplyDeleteI think I will sell them commercially as you say it would be a shame not to put them on the market. The sculpting is none of my work, I wish I could but it's well beyond me, all the figure were done by the guy who runs eBob miniatures, talented man!
DeleteLovely looking sculpts, good luck with the project!
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Many thanks Iain, a fair bit of planning to do but it should be fun!!
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