I do not know the best way to ask this, aside from just trying. Browsing the rules for Golden Demon and other local area contests, they usually state: Have to be 75% or such the related product. How does that apply? I know many here have entered the GD's and such. Where is the line between say building up a model with GS so much perhaps almost no original metal or plastic visible, or say sculpting a model based on the product, but it the correct pose/armor you need. I have seen so many great and mind blowing 'conversions' and cannot say that all those products belong to the company or not. Is it alright to create and sculpt based on the miniature (if you have the talent) as long as it looks like the original model?
EG: I have seen a demon who's body was built up from the rat ogre chest. During a WIP shot, you could see very little of the original chest piece. Fake fur, GS, armor scraps covered so much of it that only a small stomach section remained. The rest, head and wings were from toys, the feet were I want to say undead dragon feet, and GS for the rest.
So why not craft the whole stomach from a block of GS, or other putty and have something in the middle of it to support the weight and add structure. I wish I could find the WIP shot or the final, but it was so long ago. I remember looking at it, and thinking it almost nothing on there bought from the store or bits.
Where, or is there, a line that determines what you can submit or do you just take the whole project and think, yea this passes for a (example) GW product. Alot of the models I see winning or doing real well have great bases. Extended or enlarged to include a huge scene, which takes as much into account judging the model than a simple base. Does the base really make that much of a difference to the model itself?
EG: I have seen a demon who's body was built up from the rat ogre chest. During a WIP shot, you could see very little of the original chest piece. Fake fur, GS, armor scraps covered so much of it that only a small stomach section remained. The rest, head and wings were from toys, the feet were I want to say undead dragon feet, and GS for the rest.
So why not craft the whole stomach from a block of GS, or other putty and have something in the middle of it to support the weight and add structure. I wish I could find the WIP shot or the final, but it was so long ago. I remember looking at it, and thinking it almost nothing on there bought from the store or bits.
Where, or is there, a line that determines what you can submit or do you just take the whole project and think, yea this passes for a (example) GW product. Alot of the models I see winning or doing real well have great bases. Extended or enlarged to include a huge scene, which takes as much into account judging the model than a simple base. Does the base really make that much of a difference to the model itself?
