Is this Planet Figure or Planet Whinger??? as the other thread of Youngs. If you don't like it move on. Sorry I just have to say it.... if you don't like something find something you do.... sometimes this site starts sounding like an old granny site. I am not picking on an individual but I find it painful that some people say "not another one".
What's worse though? "Planet Whinge" or "Planet Platitude"? Because endless "attaboy" comments about poor/unimaginative releases is arguably just as bad. As for commenting on stuff that I like, hey - I do it all the time! But equally if I think something's a bit lame, I'll say so as well. Nothing wrong with that IMHO.
If you can't find something you like out of all the stuff coming out these days, daily/monthly and have nothing in the GA to paint, I think you should start sculpting yourself.
You're right, there's plenty of choice these days - maybe even too much choice sometimes. But if I had the time (and more to the point, the talent) I would love to create my own pieces, as there are plenty of subjects I'd like to see covered (or covered more). But unfortunately I am to sculpting what Jack The Ripper was to gentlemanly conduct. Not many of us have the skill to make that a viable option.
These sculptors do amazing work and I would hate to see them close business.
Couldn't agree more.
I just don't get the comments " not another one" " done a hundred times". I get people will say, "I am allowed to have my opinion" and you are, I just don't get why your not putting that time into something you do like. I like the saying " don't take me to negative town" and somethimes when I read these comments I wonder where some people live.....
See above.
A lot of times the new figure or bust is done better than the last ten before, or maybe in a different uniform or better head sculpt than the 100 before or maybe the hands are sculpted better.
That is a fair point. Sculptors are upping their game and the quality of releases that we're seeing these days is just staggering.
Lots of people here including myself rave about the old S&T figures from John Rosengrant, weren't they Germans and Tankers. I wouldn't say they had never been done before it's just that the sculpting, poses and casts were great.
They hadn't
never been done before, but at the time they were released (early / mid '00s) they hadn't yet been done anything like
as often. But yes that range still stands up today as among the very best, and I have a few of them myself.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the comment about poses, which were great. One or two of them were "straight up & down" but some showed some real imagination, which I think is something that's lacking in a lot of WW2 German releases that we see nowadays: The sculpting is superb, it's just that too many of them seem to be just standing around, or staring into space, or pointing off at something in the far distance. Same with the busts, most with either the "Hollywood" look or the stereotypical "arch Nazi". All a bit samey, and getting a bit hackneyed now.
I did buy this guy recently. He's a WW2 German ... but he's something a bit different. And "a bit different" is what us "whingers" are after
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- Steve
