Looking for a large scale figure painter

[Antenociti]

..as in a painter who paints large scale figures.. not a large painter.. although Im not saying we will exclude large painters.. I digress:

The items are 2 15 inch tall \'Horizon\' Stargate figures.

I\'ve been trying to find somebody who can match the detail as shown on these images:

and have both the Horus and Anubis to assemble and paint.

Each figure is very highly detailed resin with the staff weapons being metal cast. They\'re heavy, gorgeous and big and I just can\'t seem to find anybody who can paint them for me!

If interested please drop me an email with links to your existing work (on CMON or elsewhere) and an idea of cost.

my email is antenociti AT barrule.com

 

[frenchkid]

You can have a look at Andrea\'s painters. They do these size minis from time to time so might be available for your project.

 

[TAB Studio]

These are beautiful figures.
Would you want metallics or nmm?
I assume by match the detail you wish metallics but better to ask
I wonder if the are white or the gray resin also? How many pieces to put together is also of interest.

 

[Sonnyslayer]

wow! thats some nice minis
i dont think andrea will paint the minis to that standard.

 

[TAB Studio]

I don\'t know ....Andrea\'s have some of the fine painters...:yes:

 

[mistamick]

Did someone paint that?

 

[Avicenna]

15 inches?? wow, that is enormous!

I think you\'ll need someone with a historical painting background for this as they tend to be used to the larger scales, and may have experience with oils (for the skin/cloth) and enamel (for the metallics). I have had no experience with anything larger than 120mm, and this is much larger than that... 300mm or something!

very, VERY nice models though! :drool:

 

[penguin]

Impressive indeed :drool:

Maybe you could try vincenti (Adrian Bay)? His large scale stuff is friggin\' amazing!

 

[Antenociti]

Just to answer a few pointers/questions:

Figures are in resin - roughly 12 - 20 pieces or so to each model with most of the pieces being the headdress.

Rough idea is:
legs (knees downwards) - 2
Arms - 2
Body - 1
Headdress nedk - 1
Head - 1
Headdress details (earings etc) - 2-6
Staff weapon - 2
\"sundry items\" 1- 5

There are some areas that will need t be filled and pinned - the join between \"body\" and legs is a bit tricky but other than that assembly and pinning appears straightforward... albeit on a big scale!

Resin is a nice pale cream detail that has been pressure cast to eliminate bubbles and is of a very good quality with high detailing.

Painting would need to be metallics to attain the right colours of the metal areas - I dont think NMM could get that affect?

I will supply bespoke wooden display bases for them to be mounted on.

 

[Dragonsreach]

I second Bill\'s suggestion of Adrian Bay (Vincenti) but could I also suggest Orb.
I\'m pretty sure he\'s done some large scale stuff in the past.

 

[Orb]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
I second Bill\'s suggestion of Adrian Bay (Vincenti) but could I also suggest Orb.
I\'m pretty sure he\'s done some large scale stuff in the past.

Boo!!!! Someone talking about me?
Thankyou, Mike, for the vote of confidence!!!!

I\'ve never done anything quite that big (although there is that 12\" high Slaine hanging around my desk...........) but looking at it, a mix of airbrush, oils, acrylics using principally armour modelling techniques for those metallics would do it. It\'s do-able...... mmmmmmmmmm let me think.....

EDIT; it\'s fair to say even most Historical painters will not have done anything quite this big before, the biggest being 200mm and thats considered big. It\'s whether anyone is brave enough to take this on...........it\'s intriguing!!!

 

[Antenociti]

I know its a tough one - I\'ve had the 2 professional painters that we work with regularly already turn it down as they simply didn\'t think they could do them justice and paint at that scale.

...but they\'re just such gorgeous figures they cry out for painting....and they\'re to be a surprise present for the wife (she loves Stargate and knows nothing about them).

 

[james sequeira]

its a super figure,stargate is great as well

 

[Avicenna]

I agree that it\'s do-able and I think I could probably give it a crack (as my armour technique scales up pretty well) problem is I think it would take absolutely ages to do and would have absolutely no idea of how much to quote! What\'s the time-frame on thes bad boys?

I would also be rather daunted by the prospect of 2 of them not sure i am brave enough!

 

[Orb]

Have to agree with Pete.....1 is exciting, 2 daunting!!!!!

And the time-frame too?

 

[Antenociti]

I had originally wanted them for Xmas but the search for a painter started a few months back and went out the window some time ago!

Indeed I dont think there is a timetable anymore, I\'d just like to see them done \"eventually\".

I dont see any problem with one person doing one and another person the other btw - the two figures are (in the series) from different system lords so any style differences between them would be fine... in fact it might be preferable.

I\'m also beginning to grasp just how much more difficult they are to do than I first anticipated

 

[Orb]

well if you don\'t mind splitting them then I\'d be prepared to take on one of them........if you\'re interested.....

Just seen the Anubis figure on the WWW, I assume that\'s the other one? These are monsters, at 1/5 scale!!!!

 

[james sequeira]

do you have a link where they are available from please

 

[Antenociti]

Here is Anubis - rather the \"Anubis Guard\", not anubis himself. The only non-guard figure was Ra and that wasn\'t very good in compairson to these really.

The \"oddity\" with these and how you can tell they are form the film is that both have the symbol of Ra on their arms.

The company that made them (Horizons) went out of business a few years ago and they only produced them in limited edition numbers... so you need to find the odd one for sale on ebay or sometimes in shops - they sell for anything up to £300 each.

well if you don\'t mind splitting them then I\'d be prepared to take on one of them........if you\'re interested.....

That would be great - drop me an email with details to antenociti AT barrule.com please and we can make arrangements.

 

[mickc22]

James,
Frontier hve them, not cheap tho