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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:08 am

otherworld wrote:Considering the sordid details of the Cretan Minotaur's conception, surely a bit of nudity isn't too shocking?!

Just shocked you made him a lefty... :wink:

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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:18 am

otherworld wrote:Glad you like 'em!

As for Mind Flayers, I don't plan to do them. There are certain monsters whose IP rights WotC will probably defend vigorously, and the Mind Flayer is one of them.

I just got the green for the new Minotaur, and will post some pics later.

Just another thought, Richard. Does this mean that you will not be making an owlbear?

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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:55 am

Sardan wrote:
Just another thought, Richard. Does this mean that you will not be making an owlbear?

No, Jon, I reckon an Owlbear is fair game. The following figures are not subject to the OGL, so I won't be touching them:

   * beholder
   * gauth
   * carrion crawler
   * displacer beast
   * githyanki
   * githzerai
   * kuo-toa
   * mind flayer
   * slaad
   * umber hulk
   * yuan-ti

WTF is a Gauth?

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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:42 am

It's a kind of beholder...a lesser variety, I believe.

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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:07 am

otherworld wrote:
No, Jon, I reckon an Owlbear is fair game. The following figures are not subject to the OGL, so I won't be touching them:

   * beholder
   * gauth
   * carrion crawler
   * displacer beast
   * githyanki
   * githzerai
   * kuo-toa
   * mind flayer
   * slaad
   * umber hulk
   * yuan-ti

WTF is a Gauth?

Great stuff I'll snap up an owlbear (or two - two head variants?) straight away.

Shame about the mindflayer and the umberhulk but I understand where you are coming from.

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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:25 am

What if you make a lesser beholder? Call it a Peeker or Glancer or something.

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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:52 pm

Excactly: you can definitely work around the OGL restrictions by creating mind-flayer-like minis, beholder-like minis, etc. If you feel hte need to follow the OGL at all (does it even apply to miniatures??), there are plenty of equivalent monsters out there that you can leverage that are close enough to the originals that it's not a big deal to make it an "umbra hulk" or whatever instead.

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:50 am

The Collector's Trove wrote:I mean has anyone ever sculpted a purple worm miniature that is 2" diameter and 10" long? Reaper's most recent one, which lacks eyes, is only a sub-adult, being merely 1" or 5' in diameter. (The plastic one by Wizbro I have not seen in person so I can't comment on it's scale.)

It has to be the all time classic of titanic D&D creatures but it has never had a properly scaled miniature!

Coming soon, work in progress shot below...

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:48 pm

Now that is a pretty cool mini.

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:51 pm

That reminds me of a quote I heard somewhere (forgive me but I do not remember where).

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:45 pm

otherworld wrote:Coming soon, work in progress shot below...

God D!@# It! That thing scared the hell out of me when I scrolled down!

That is massive. Plastic, I assume? Metal (somehow), I hope?

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:16 pm

Great looking Purple Worm---may be what tips me off to finally place a big order

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:55 pm

Howdy,

otherworld wrote:Coming soon, work in progress shot below...

Bless you Richard. Bless you. I'll certainly pick up one of those.

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:56 pm

That is an awesome purple worm... and it's all metal, right?

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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:22 am

Sorry guys, this model is far too big to cast in metal. It'll be a resin casting, in 5 pieces, maybe 6. He's about 45mm across the head and 380mm long, so that works out at roughly 9' wide and 75' long in miniature scale.

I'm making good progress, so I'll post another pic later today.

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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:23 am

Resin beats plastic, I can deal with that.

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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:46 pm

Thanks, guys, I'm glad you like it. Here's a bit of progress...

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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:13 pm

That's great! I will definitely be buying one of these. Let us know when they're available to order.

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