"15mm Tripedal Alien "Plant" Or "Bug" Creature" Topic

So… will there be a deadline extension? I can manage either way, but a little more time certainly would take the pressure off a bit, and it seems like some folks would really appreciate it.

Also: any guidance on what sort of photos to submit? I plan to email some photos as well as sending my sculpts, just to make sure my entries are "on board" on time.

OK staying with the main question,
add three more legs and the right upper body and you"ll have one of the creatures from falling skies.
in the mean time I would go with plant

Nap is down for a day or two, there is a planned extension.

Another month I believe.

:)

Plant or bug where ever it goes it leaves a trail to follow

full article here
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That is so cool. Very Trigan Empire.
I have seen work just as good by some gamers here on TMP.

I couldn't help but think there must be some sort of typo or mistranslation or something in the article because it kept referring to "moss" when those buildings really appear to be covered in "mold"

It does look like mold to me.

Yeap, not only down but dealing with the demands of the business, so TMP did not get checked for a few days again.

Yes there are enough that need some more time, lets add a month to the deadline so everyone has the time to finish things properly.

As far as the photo's go whatever works best for you, either singles or group shots. I can always paste them together if I need to.

Alrighty…getting the final details on.

I had a rough couple months…first I was sick upon sick and then my wife had major surgery, so no time or resolve for sculpting.

But I have found a bit of energy and am cleaning them up.

Pics being prepped and then boxed up.

I was not into the event for any reward, just looking to have a go at the cool tripod base :D

Hope everyone else got their pieces together.

Last I heard from Napthyme there were at least half a dozen entries in. Hoping for a few more down the home stretch!

I wasn't able to get mine done to a standard I was happy with.

I just couldn't make my concept work with the bit as it was.

-Eli

Scrambling to finish. Think I overreached myself, and too many things to do the next two days to make me optimistic.

Maybe another (shorter) extension would be in order?

Seems like the main goal is to create a cool line of sculpts, not to meet any particular deadline…

I could use an extra day or two, stuck on a ship working on a radar…doing an online update of software right now :D

I'll still work on mine, but it'll be outside the realm of the contest.

Hey, sorry everyone, was dealing with the outside work for spring and not checking this like I should be.

When you have health problems as I do you learn that dates should never be set in stone. We can tack on more time if you need it, the plan was to have entries and what fun is a contest without entries?

Dan has fell off the radar again, so no idea if he is entering or not.

Sorry guys. Alive and relatively well. Life and elderly parents' health issues getting in the way of all things miniature – again.

I'm going to have to live vicariously through you guys and your sculpts. Can't wait to see the final reveal.

Dan

'Thought I might be alone in not quite being on time, at least not to acceptable (if only personal) standards. So I'd throw in a vote for a little more time! Would a week do?

Cheers, Rob.

Yeah we can add more time. the idea was to have entries and what is a contest without entries…

Many thanks!

I used the extra time to remove the variety of weapons and replace with a series of the same five…five troopers.

Happy now!

Will ship toot sweet!

excellent!!!… I hope you can take pics before you send them, if not I will do what I can here.

'Should have some updated pics done later today! Apologies if I'm holding up proceedings.

Regards, Rob.

'Have just posted my greens and legs, looking forward to seeing how all this turns out.

Cheers, Rob.

Awesome! Can't wait to hear how many entries there were and how they turned out.

Dan

So far we had 5 sculptors enter, hoping Rich can mange something to make it 6. I'm trying to find a slot here in my "to do" list to make the webpage for the contest to show off the photo's

My Ipad2 kinda sucks at taking pics this small, so will try to see if I can use the scanner and do any better without wrecking the legs.

How about something like this?
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I empathize with you on your ipad camera troubles, I practically had to "trick" my iphone 3gs into taking the images I sent you.

I'm excited to see everyone's designs.

DWW, I don't know about anyone else's, but my entries are definitely in the same broad category as that one. It's one of your old doppleganger minis, right? I may need to add it when I get around to ordering Dr. Sherlocktopus.

'Anyone have any news on the project?

Cheers, 'Count.

The contest ends on 01 July and then the pics should start popping up :)

Waiting on Ray to send me pics, I have a few here I will probably have to mail to wyatt to photograph as I don't think I am going to manage, but will try again tonight. There test casts for pics anyway, so no problem on turn around time for them.

Rich is the last person who might be going to enter, hoping to hear he's polished up something so that we can have one more entry.

I have cleared about 3 major things off my to do list the last 3 weeks so hopefully I can now have time to build the contest page.

Totally outside the process, I find this good news, indeed!

Doug

ok, contest is officially closed. Will give Wyatt until this weekend to decide on who wins what, but I have to say the quality of what was entered is quite amazing considering that most of you are not doing this professionally.

Here is the link to the photo's page.
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I have given the heads up to the mold maker that these will be coming, but this is the busy time of the year, so it could be fall before I can get the reward casts done for everyone.

once the winner is decided I'll find out from everyone how they want to be credited as the sculptor.

Big round of applause to everyone who entered, maybe we can talk Dan into doing this again and we can make this a yearly event.

Wow they all look pretty good! Tough times ahead to decide.

"maybe we can talk Dan into doing this again and we can make this a yearly event."

Count me in!

I'll start thinking of what could be used as another good starting point for the other sculptors.

Dan

That was a bit of fun…it is interesting to see the different approaches.

Well done all :)

Agreed, so good to see such a variety of results. As for a yearly event, cool idea! Go for it.

Regards, 'Count.

28mmMan: "it is interesting to see the different approaches."

That was my hope all along. I wanted to see all the different directions people would go, after getting a common starting point.

link

I love it. Great job everyone!

Dan

After looking at the detail on the other entries, I realized I'm going to have to step up my game the next time…. ;-)

Makes a list…

1. get a new eye glass prescription
2. get new glasses
3. get a huge magnifying lens
4. get a much better light source
5. find some talent before the next challenge

:)

Everyone did a great job…such different directions, still can't get over it…I figured a general similarity…but no.

lol

Once Wyatt gives his verdict on the winners, I'll go back in and reveal who did what. So please let me know at some point how you want to be credited for your entries.

And I don't think we have even scraped the surface of variation on these yet.

Really fun to see all the different variations! I'd certainly be interested in another contest next year.

Now of course I'll need to find / create an appropriate game system to use these guys in…

What systems are y'all planning to use them with?

These are my first for sci-fi, so no idea really.

I'll certainly be on board for next year's contest if you end up running one.

And as far as crediting goes, I'd be fine with my real name plus my TMP handle: Brian "Gokiburi" Harriman.

'Guess I'll follow the same form, Rob "TheCount" Cullen will do for me.

Cheers, Rob.

I felt funny submitting an entry, being that the legs portion was from one of my greens. Plus, when my "über ethical" wife found out about the contest she gave me an immediate thumbs down on participating.

I'm definitely interested in donating another green* for the next one, but am also itching to see if there are any other donors, so I can participate too with that one.

Dan
* Napthyme, when you get some quiet time, please give me some ideas on what you would like me to donate next.

Dan your wife must be a bit of an odd duck, first she didn't believe there even was a contest, now she didn't think it was ethical for you to enter?

I could see if you were the one running the contest, but since I took that over and your not the judge where would the unethical part come into it?

As far as I could see you had just as much right to enter this as anyone else did, maybe more so. You don't keep Tiger woods out of his own memorial invitation golf tournament just because his name is on the tournament.

Will give this a bit of thought and get back to you.

I've certainly no issue with Dan being a participant.

Regards, Rob.

Napthyme: "Dan your wife must be a bit of an odd duck, first she didn't believe there even was a contest, now she didn't think it was ethical for you to enter?"

She's odd alright. It's a wonder I've been able to put up with her for almost 3 decades! :)

No worries, I'll join in on the next one then.

Dan