Sunday, August 7, 2011

More Higlander Studio Miniatures

I just got three more pictures of sample sculpts from Rod at Highlander Studios. These are unpainted, but they are too cool not to share.


This is the third (of four) American adventurer. I look at this and I see Buffalo Bill Cody with ray guns. Look at the face and the fringe on the jacket!


This is the fourth of four American adventurers. Nice to see a female figure without a bustle dress. Now, don't take that wrong, Steampunkers. I like a bustle dress as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure it's the best idea out in the wilderness.

Nice shotgun, too.


And here's a nice kitty-cat. I'm glad Rod is doing animals as well. Most of the time they're nice-looking but not much use in a miniatures game. In Mars Needs Steam! they are almost always a big part of the game. Well-done, Rod!

13 comments:

  1. Wish he would do them in 28mm as well.

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  2. That could almost be Annabelle in story #2... :)

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  3. Is it me or is that shotgun brass-coloured? Still, it looks good.

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  4. Andy, I hadn't thought of that but I think you're right.

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  5. Shawn, these are photos of master figures, which means they are made of a variety of materials -- mostly epoxy putty, but sometimes other bits as well, and brass rod of the correct size is often used for gun barrels and other tubes. That's easier than carvuing a perfect cylinder from putty. The master will be used to make a mold and then production figures will be cast in white metal from that mold.

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  6. I didn't realize these were masters. Frank, did you get an exclusive? Good for you.

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  7. I take for granted that everyone knows how miniatures are manufactured and how licensing works, which is foolish of me -- like a Marine assuming everyone knows how to adjust the head space and timing on an M2HB. (What could be easier, right?) So this is a good opportunity to explain a little.

    Highlander Studio and I negotiated a license for Highlander to produce and market a line of 15mm miniatures for Space: 1889. They own the miniatures, but they pay a royalty on the figures sold. I have the right of approval on the figures, because it is my responsibility to maintain the quality of the Space: 1889 universe.

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  8. why did we go with 15 though. i mean i got into space 1889 in 1989 because i had a nice collection of ral partha colonials and frontier colonials and sweet foundry stuff that fit the universe and allowed me to use EXISTING figures in the line.. making any british is a waste of your time in any scale we are spoiled for choice but working more on the items that you can ONLY get for this game(martians, lizardmen, the long neglected moon men, and the like) i dont know i think doing that in 25/28 would have been a better bet. i dont know many people that do colonials in 15s
    this is an expensive hobby both to buy but also to produce, its better to create what we are clamouring for than to try to make us do this in a different scale.. i have been waiting for ANYTHING new for a really long time and now i have it, i dont want it.. very disapointing

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    1. MadDrDevo - We're not trying to make you do anything. Highlander Studios approached me and wanted to do 15mm miniatures for Space: 1889. 15mm is the scale Rod is comfortable sculpting in. His line does not preclude a 25/28mm line, nor is 15mm the only approved scale. As you can see from my own photographs I still game with 25/28 scale. But there are folks who prefer 15mm, and this scale will make it easier for Rod to do aerial vessels in resin. It didn't make much sense to just say, "No!"

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    2. thats true you arent making anyone do anything, that certainly is not what i mean. its just frustrating WAITING over 20 years for new figures for this range to come out by the folks who made the game, and then have them in 15mm. there is a reason its an under represented scale in Victorian adventure gaming.. I notice that brigade games never updated their line of 15mm figures for this period, it just sort of died. i know there are 18mm figures for this too and those have had little to no expansion in a long time either.. it just seems like you should create the things you need to make YOUR universe unique and leave all the other things(like regular soldiers) alone. Adding new things to the 28s would have just been nice. i have seen too many companies that make cool rule systems try to get into miniatures and just rehash what is already out there only to have it not work

      i suppose there is no plan to add to the 28s anytime ever?

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    3. That last sentence is not true at all and I don't know what would make you say it. But I don't announce anything here until it is a done deal.

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  9. having said that they are nice.. but not nice enough to throw out the thousands of dollars i have in 28s to start over.. i guess then its a win for the guys at parhoom station

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