Dammekkos2: Speaking as someone whose prior post on this thread reads, \"They\'ve already been mentioned, but I\'ll also have to go with Vince Hudon\'s Magmatrax and Victoria Lamb\'s Fiery Angel. Both are simply jaw-dropping.\" -- from which I can infer I am one of the people of whom you speak -- I, too, would request that you lighten up.
When you say:
Because it shows a lack of thought. Someone says \"Magmatrax and Fiery Angel\" then someone else says.......\"Magmatrax and Fiery Angel\"...
I\'m not disrespecting any of those famous pieces that people have mentioned, I just think that they haven\'t put any thought into their responses.
...I take that as a bit of an insult. Not much, mind you -- I\'m not trying to blow this out of proportion here; it\'s really not that big a deal. But allow me to elaborate on just
why I take issue with your statement: I don\'t particularly care to have it simply assumed I am a mindless sheep. The fact of the matter is my naming Magmatrax and Fiery Angel had absolutely zero to do with other people having already typed out those answers. Rather, those just happened to be the first two miniatures I ever bookmarked so that it would be easy to go back and drool over them again later. I\'ve posted links to those miniatures, ages ago, in gaming forums -- as opposed to miniatures forums -- so that some of the people I knew there who don\'t pay much attention to this side of the hobby could see what they were missing. And those are two miniatures I always load up to show to my non-gaming friends, whenever they ask me what I could ever possibly want to do with all these tiny chunks of metal.
All of that, of course, is the long, drawn-out way of saying: those two pieces have inspired me. They\'re not necessarily the only ones, but they\'ve been at the top of my personal list since Day 1 of my deciding I\'d like to see just what I could do in this little hobby here -- and I\'ll be damned if I was going to
not give them as my answer, solely because somebody else who felt the same just happened to click on this thread a couple a couple hours before I did.
Two closing points, then:
1) Writing this reply did make me give the issue a bit more thought than I had in the brief moment during which I\'d written my initial reply. In doing so, I realized that I actually should\'ve also included EricJ\'s Dark Maiden along with the first two; I found it later than I did the others, but it has since joined them on the \"I show it to people who nothing about miniatures\" level. I don\'t know if that piece would be considered a worthy object of my admiration -- I don\'t recall whether anyone else has already named it here -- but then again, I don\'t actually care. It is inspiring to me, and that\'s all that matters.
2) It is true that, for brevity\'s sake (said with all due irony
), I quoted above but two lines out of several posts from Dammekkos2. It is not my intent to be taking him out of context in any way, so in all fairness, I\'ll point out that he did also write (my italics):
it seems like some people (and I may be wrong)...
I\'ll acknowledge that hedging statement and simply reply that yes, in the case of this specific person about whom he was speaking, he was in fact wrong.
