RIP in peace John Blanche the absolute legend edition.Previous Thread:>>98043484Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://mega.nz/file/C4oSnArA#sA2O_7V6OnhZCOLCf0Sba1KW_wao3pZvc6IUmlHvpsk
WD 183 lol,, blood and shekels
It's important to remember Blanche not just for his 2d work, but his massive contributions to miniature painting and conversion as an artform. He was very much at the forefront of pushing miniature painting as a serious thing, getting it away from basic flat colours toy style painting, and using everything to hand. "Blanchitsu" wasn't a style, it was an educational column in White Dwarf, where they also happily solicited tips from readers to try out and add to the collective knowledge base.And importantly in the oldhammer context, he is directly responsible for bringing together all of the definitive artists of the era, setting the visual direction of everything, which is pretty huge.
>>98151367Anything else Blanche I should add to the memorial gofile?https://gofile.io/d/oedbAG
>>98151512Hopefully Trump doesn't become King and I can someday afford to import the old Jes Goodwin Asgard minis without eating fake and gay tariffs.
>>98151477To say that Blanche shaped how tabletop games look and feel would be an understatement. He brought an artistic vision to a nascent industry that saw art as decoration rather than atmosphere. There will never be anyone else like him, yet he will live on through his work and those he has inspired.
Stinking up the thread
I know another anon already made a set of refined 2e scans, but I wanted to get some practice in myself. I'd like to post these with the weapons attached to the arms, to save from having to cut and glue them. Will need a fellow 2e enthusiast with a printer to presupport and troubleshoot them, though.
>>98152417If you share them, I could probably give them a test print in the coming days
>>98152417Ignore the bolt pistol - yet to be done. Here's a before and after.
>>98152417>I'd like to post these with the weapons attached to the arms, to save from having to cut and glue them.Some of the Second Edition arms were angled in such a way that it was difficult to get an era-appropriate gun in the hand *and* a pauldron on the shoulder. The Phobos-pattern bolt guns came with a stock you could just snip off, but one shouldn't have to shave away pat of the gun or pauldron to make everything fit.
>>98152543Yes, I noticed this with the pistols. The right arm is at a right angle, and there's no room for the pauldron and pistols to fit comfortably. My solution was to mirror the left arm to the right so you can have either arm carry a pistol or chainsword and have everything fit nicely. Another solution would be to fit it all together with the pauldron attached to the arm too, but I want the pauldrons to be separate, personally.
>>98152417Are you proper merging the two meshes together? (Booleans) Otherwise, clean work. >>98152543We need a return to nubs. The posability of nub shoulders destroys flat butted shoulders. We have the technology.
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>>98152723They will be a proper single mesh once done.>>98152735Gotta love the 1mm thick coat of gloss varnish. RIP, John.
Johnny resculpting anon can we get an update please?
>>98151132>Where do you guys buy your oldhammer minis?>eBay is expensiveLook for lots of random bits. You'll often find RT parts or even whole minis mixed in with the conversion fodder. Check other auction sites for mis-labeled "toy soldier" and "figure" auctions. Be prepared to strip a lot of dogshit paint jobs and salvage blown conversions or damaged models. >LocallyCheck antique stores, thrift shops, and garage/yard sales. Estate sales too, these days. There may be a local auction house. Check for wargaming clubs and trading meetups in your area, especially on facebook; people are often willing to let models go for a lot less if they're going to someone who's planning to play with them.>>98152656Normally you trim off material at the flat on the shoulder to get it to fit, and/or use a small amount of Green stuff or Miliput under the pauldron and potentially in the armpit to get the proper offset with the rest of the armor.
>>98152735I appreciate his dedication to THICK gloss varnish.Preserved the fuck out of everything.I'm gonna go paint a white haired woman with loads of bionics and a big gun in tribute. And some clothing or weapon on there is gonna be RED as fuck in contrast. With a tiny bit of black/white chequerboard if I can manage it.
>>98152915Still here. As I said before beginning, time isn't always very generous to me, so I can't exactly sculpt daily. I'll try and get some more work done today, but can't guarantee to finish this week, sorry!
>>98153074Sadly, Hasslefree is dead so Kev White's tribute Amazons went with it. This model was so much fun to paint
>>98153485Yeah, they had a bunch of cool stuff. I bought a bunch of minis from them and wish I could've bought some more. Really wish someone would pick their stuff for production. I've seen companies sell their ranges to other companies.
>>98153269Never apologize for working for free.
>>98153572Allegedly Kev's wife and (goddamnit) Artemis are spending two years dead for tax purposes and then reconstituting. According to them> Sally's mom died, she crashed out> She says Kev couldn't do shit because Forge World has him chained in the basement on a non-compete and he's refused to go online for years anyway> Artemis went in for surgery to help with the TG Neuralgia. He'll totally recover and not spend that time playing Blood Bowl on Twitch>all those new hires that Artemis was training to replace him have of course leftMy money's on them stringing it out for 2-3 years more, then selling out to Crooked Dice when they can't pay for the storage anymore. CD already have a substantial chunk of Kev/Hasslefree's old sculpts. The company bought up Apocalypse Isle models, Otherworlds Skirmish, and Golgo Island, as well as commissioning Kev several times for other lines. They actually have the infrastructure and dedication to pick up 500+ molds, including a bunch of multiparts, and a very large line of "parody" models that fly particularly close to the sun. So their lawyers are primed and their staff are functional.
>>98153638>CD already have a substantial chunk of Kev/Hasslefree's old sculpts
Things are coming along well
Got a little work done today. I think he may be done, but I'll need to sleep on it and see if I find any new mistakes later.There are some areas that I find really rough, but either I don't have enough of a reference to resculpt them or they are warped in a way that would require a lot of resculpting/polymodeling. Particularly the pistol is still a bit blobby and uneven, but the alternative would be remaking it from scratch and that would lose the organic unevenness of the original, I think my rough resculpt will be a little bit more faithful, even if only in spirit.Any c&c?
>>98154330Honestly it looks great anon! It's come a long way and the lines read much more clearly!
>>98154330The bottoms of the pouches on his belt are all flat/squared rather than angled. The center pouch is slightly higher than the bottom of his buttplate, which confused the scanner on the scanned model. Other than that it looks pretty good
>>98154486Thanks, do you have any image I can reference there?I'm literally working from blurry photos and whatever details I can parse from higher res—but harder to look at—unpainted metals.
>>98154518I'll see if I can get a better pic of my Johnny later, dealing with chores right now
>>98154715No rush anon, I probably won't be able to work on it again until Friday, so it's all chill.
