Thursday 8 October 2009

Sci Fi Figure Poll Results

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The results of the poll:

What 15mm miniatures do you really want to see now?


Near Future (+20 years)
10 (5%)
Gritty Sci Fi (+100 years, but still grunts)
42 (23%)
Space Marines! All shoulder pads and shiny armour
9 (5%)
Post-Apocalyptic - Mad Max/Omega Man
13 (7%)
Weird World War 2, Death Korps der Kampf
14 (7%)
Far Future (Nano Suits, Ultra Tech)
17 (9%)
Alien Armies (off world but still grunts)
34 (18%)
Weird Aliens (tentacles)
15 (8%)
Retro/Pulp Sci Fi
10 (5%)
Characters (Space Opera - Space Pirates, Heroes & Adventurers)
15 (8%)

Total Votes: 179

I hereby declare Gritty Grunt Sci Fi the winner with 23% of the votes cast!

Maybe that should be the name of my new figure company? LOL! Seriously though, is it what you expected? It's pretty well spread amongst the remainder which demonstrates there's a demand for quite a wide range of miniatures in our chosen genre.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to participate!

Cheers
Mark
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9 comments:

  1. Interesting results. I figured these sorts of figures were already well-represented in the minis industry. I do like the the #2 was gritty alien grunts.

    -Eli

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  2. Thanks for posting this poll Mark.
    :)

    LAF

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  3. To me making something look gritty comes down to the paint job not nessecarily the sculpt and at 15mm gritty paint jobs are a commitment beyond most peoples time.

    An example at a larger scale, would be this Warmachine Khador Warjack.

    Bog standard paint job example

    http://www.nugaming.com/Warmachine/WarmachineKhadorJuggernaut.JPG

    Gritty "modelled" paint job.

    http://deadfishpainting.com/photos/perso/WarJack.jpg

    An another example at 15mm would be battlefronts Paner III Tank.

    none gritty example

    http://www.leisuregames.com/acatalog/Ge036tn.jpg

    Gritty example

    http://www.flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/all_images/Modelling/painting/Wazron-PZIII-10.jpg

    When you wrote the poll categories what did you envisage "gritty" to be? as out of all the options listed to me this was the least defined.

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  4. I think he meant situations which are more atmospheric.

    Example: in Star Wars you had clean ships and troops fighting in nice new halls.

    In Blade Runner you had dirty streets full of dangerous people, even the cars were well lived in.

    LAF

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  5. But even that LAF does not translate to "gritty sci-fi miniatures", remember the poll asked What 15mm miniatures do you really want to see now?

    The Star wars stuff refelected evironments appropriate to a whole host of scenes/world situations, it was clean when it needed to be and was dirty and lived in when it needed to be, it just tends to fly by that quick its easily missed. With Blade Runner its just there all the time on one bit of a world and you are force to revel in it.

    You could sculpt a Skywalker and a Decard miniature paint them and capture nothing of the movies grit or cleanliness in either case.

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  6. Hi Craig

    Well, I agree, you do make some very good points here.

    Mark, we are lost, what did you mean by "Gritty"?

    Ha, ha!
    :)

    LAF

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  7. "What did you mean by Gritty"

    I liked the rhetorical alliteration. I mean WTF!

    It's the grunt on the ground in New Afghanistan, warts and all rather than the classic Star/Space Marine.

    M

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  8. I also believe that "gritty" is a choice in detailing. Kit that makes sense, pockets, armor and weapons that look like they were designed by a contractor not ILM. Also, posing that is realistic and doesn't have the figures striking heroic poses or animated in way that are more at home in a comic book and not on the battlefield.

    -Eli

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  9. Well said that man!

    Cheers
    Mark

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