Rare and Limited Edition mini's, lets find them all!

Harfoot · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:39 pm

Yes come on Kev, lets see it painted!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:50 pm

Harfoot wrote:

Yes come on Kev, lets see it painted!

i hear ya lol

soon as i get a minute......

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:16 pm

jmh_stirling wrote:

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

Harfoot wrote:

Yes come on Kev, lets see it painted!

i hear ya lol

soon as i get a minute......

Unacceptable! We want it now!

Haha email me with a nice deal on the elf banner and i'll start right away :wink:

IsleStaggerholm · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:12 pm

I feel like the mathematician mentor in Good Will Hunting. People see my collection and think, he's got it all, but I know the truth. . . and it hurts. On a side note, Ebay has sucked lately, all the old usual suspects, nothing to really blow the bank on.

Rognarr · **Posted:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:29 pm

Did we have this wight listed already?

Grungehog · **Posted:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:34 pm

I love that sculpt, it reminds me of one of the old artworks for fotr

Lorindol · **Posted:** Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:39 am

Grungehog wrote:

I love that sculpt, it reminds me of one of the old artworks for fotr

honnestly i dont think its that good looking. I like the any other wights released by GW better than this one.

still pretty cool its such a rare model :yay:

Harfoot · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:28 pm

Anyone know the story behind it? Is it an old model, 80s? Or a more recent version?

Rognarr · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:49 pm

A little research and I found this thread...: http://one-ring.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=12371
It seems the wight is pre-Weta.. although it looks quite like it belongs into the "modern" LotR-line... I don't know..

karavatis · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2013 10:58 pm

Well, I know this is not an official GW mini, but I think this is the best Grond anyone has done...

What do you think about this Grond? Dolduriel sculpted it few years ago, and there are two beast too...

Knife in the Dark · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:09 am

Looks really neat painting it soon?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:12 am

I have a grond that is much the same as the one you have pictured there. Bought from an ebay shop in Greece i think.

I think the grond i have is a little but fatter than the one pictured,must have eaten one too many warriors of minas tirith : )

Rognarr · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:36 am

There also was this nice kit from THomarillion once: http://www.tabletop-hdr.de/tipps-und-tr ... marillion/

karavatis · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:09 am

This one is 33 cm longer, and the beast are so big too, this afternoon maybe I'll take a picture...
This Grond is sculpted by Dolduriel, from Spain.

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:21 am

It certainly is a nice sculpt.

Rognarr · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:24 am

Wow, ok that sounds quite big!
Looking forward to seeing pics of the beasts

aranel7773 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:11 pm

the unreleased wight has no armour, as opposed to the two which were sold, I wonder if it was a matter of the figure's design

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

Yeah I could see that, but the Olog-Hai is definitely pre Weta.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 2:30 pm

jmh_stirling wrote:

Rognarr wrote:

A little research and I found this thread...: http://one-ring.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=12371
It seems the wight is pre-Weta.. although it looks quite like it belongs into the "modern" LotR-line... I don't know..

I am not convinced the unreleased Wight is "pre-Weta" and I am 99% certain it was intended for the 'modern' range. Given that Weta didn't make Barrow Wights, GW will have sculpted a few up of their own for the expanded universe, with designs not from the movies. This one seems to be inspired by by one of John Howe's paintings:
I wonder whether there was copyright involved of whether GW just wanted a more dynamic pose/design?

I think your right, the style of sculpt is not like the old Citadel releases, more "current"

Rognarr · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:28 pm

Just to make that clear, it wasn't my opinion that the wight is pre-LotR, that was, what they had written in the other post. And I also know (very well) that the wights didn't appear in the film..

What i meant to intend with "pre-Weta" is simply, that Weta (and artists like John Howe and Alan Lee) created all these fantastic creatures, and although not everything GW designs/realeases within the LotR-Range is created by Weta, it might be safe to say that a lot of their "expanded universe" stuff is inspired by it!

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