NEWS: HF Pirate by Tom Meier

[gi6ers]

Some of you might recall Tom auctioning this green, well HF have bought it and he's available soon..

http://cp.cobble.phpwebhosting.com/~libertywhite/advertising/frontcroppirate2.jpg

More details/pics F.O.D (http://www.heresyminiatures.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2819&highlight=)

[Ritual]

Brilliant!

[Nathan Caroland]

I still can't believe it went for what it did.

Very cool on Kev and them though for it.

[EricJ]

nice mini!

What did it go for?

[Nathan Caroland]

$800 USD if I remember correctly.

[Spacemunkie]

So about what Kev charges for a sculpt then :D

Awesome. I'll have one of those.

[james sequeira]

its great

[wiccanpony]

Will Tom be doing this sort of Auction on a regular schedule??? Not that I would ever have $800 to spend on one, but I can dream. :)

[Nathan Caroland]

I imagine he would after the success of this last one, frankly, if you can get folks to pay $800USD for a random sculpt that you've done as a practice piece, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard of a step to take.

[vincegamer]

Damn that's a good looking mini.
How many do you suppose they will sell, and at what price?

[Ritual]

Most HF minis are £3 (a little over $5). And they'll probably sell loads! :)

[gi6ers]

They tend to price fairly and once production costs have been covered they reduce the price, a lot of companies could learn from those guys. Service above and beyond anyone else.

[Patrick]

As an artist, I think it's an excellent marketing move! Someone with Tom's credentials could pull off an auction for that amount, and likely only a handful of other sculptors. Dennis Mize may have been another one.

I'm looking forward to that release.

[cdukino]

NEWS Update: He's available from now on.

Well atleast the first resin cats are. Limited to 200 and in various colours resin.
The metal version might still be a few months as the green has not yet been returned to kev to send to the metal caster. What the price of the metal one will be I don't know. The resin i do:

Options
Blue / Silver Pirate £ 10.00
Black / Bronze Pirate £ 10.00
Blue / Grey Pirate £ 10.00

Produced in 3 resin colour options: Blue resin with silver powder-coating ( 80 copies), black resin with bronze powder coating (80 copies) and a dark blue/grey un-powdered resin ( 40 copies). He comes packed in a nice sturdy tin to protect his fragility and the usual HF providence note.

The powder coating apparently did cost more to produce. I don't know what the effect of it will be if you want to paint over it. I think it might have a bit of an effect on the surface quality. And if you are gonna paint over it the nice powder shimmery look gets lost. But I think that is a nice look if you aren't gonna paint it... Anyway... to follow the discussion on this way of casting (which SteveB can word much better then me anyway):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=3051.0

And a painted version (picture isn't the best):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/Medved1/pirate1.jpg

[gi6ers]

Think i'm gonna wait for the metal version. Not a big fan of resin and the extra details are wasted on me TBH.

[Drake Farstrider]

It is well done, but it does nothing for me.

[Ritual]

I have one of these resin pirates on it's way! I love it! It has all the qualities of a 54 mm sculpt shrinked down perfectly to 30 mm. And, the resin cast ensures that the level of detail in the sculpt is kept.

[green stuff]

The mini was painted by Stuart (Medved) if I recall correctly.

[Sergeant_Crunch]

http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?p=11374#post11374
He's goin for 10 pounds a head.