joe hill 1
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Dear All,
Never started a thread on CMON before but I\'m curious as to peoples\' opinions on this subject. I move in a rather GW orientated world, I live in Nottingham, I used to paint for \'Eavy Metal and I seem to spend half my life smoking cigarettes and discussing the next Golden Daemon (I prefere that spelling) round at Matt Parkes\' house. Basically all my friends that are into \"The Hobby\" are or were employed by GW.
Now obviously we\'re all well aware of Rackham and I\'ve spent long hours studying the cataloges. The models are beautiful to be sure, but WTF are they?!
By this I mean when I pick up a GW model I know exactly what it is and all about the back ground. If a new race comes out, Tau for example, then there is a wealth of info on their background to refere to when starting any painting project. You know all about them, who they fight, who their allies are, where they come from and why. To me this is almost essential for any personnal project I might consider undertaking (freelance work it doesn\'t matter that much as you\'re just doing what you\'re told for the most part).
For example, before I started my Tzeentch BeastLord for Paris GD I did loads of research into Beastmen and Tzeentch (and Brian Froud as it goes). Not just looking at pictures but reading all the \'history\'.
When I look at a Rackham figure I think: \"Oooh! Pretty!\". But then realise I don\'t know the first bloody thing about it! I\'m not about to use the published colour scheme because I want to do something original, so what alternatives would the background to the race suggest? I\'d want to convert any figure I used for a proper project, but again I\'m stuck because I\'ve no idea about the background.
I\'m certainly not saying GW are therefore better, they\'ve been around for ages and published more books than I can imagine, so of course they have more source material.
What I am saying is that I REALLY want to paint some Rackham stuff and I desperately need some source material. The funny little cards you get in the packs are no where near in depth enough and every thing else I\'ve seen has been in French and not much less brief. I need a point of access into the world of Rackham.
So, to sum up here are my two qestions:
1). Where the arse can I get some in depth source material for Rackham (in English).
2). Does anyone get what I mean about needing to understand the background and \'history\' of what they\'re painting or am I being flakey?
Finally an analogy to illustrate: You catch an episode of some random show called \"Buffy The Vampire Slayer\". You\'ve never seen it before, it was really cool but you no idea WTF is going on because it has no context for you. Taking an interest you endevour to find out more. As the wealth of back story and \'history\' presents itself you realise it\'s probably the coolest thing you\'ve ever seen and you buy every season on DVD. Possibly. That might just be me. Actually that was a crap analogy but hopefull you get the idea.
Yours on and on and on, Joe
Never started a thread on CMON before but I\'m curious as to peoples\' opinions on this subject. I move in a rather GW orientated world, I live in Nottingham, I used to paint for \'Eavy Metal and I seem to spend half my life smoking cigarettes and discussing the next Golden Daemon (I prefere that spelling) round at Matt Parkes\' house. Basically all my friends that are into \"The Hobby\" are or were employed by GW.
Now obviously we\'re all well aware of Rackham and I\'ve spent long hours studying the cataloges. The models are beautiful to be sure, but WTF are they?!
By this I mean when I pick up a GW model I know exactly what it is and all about the back ground. If a new race comes out, Tau for example, then there is a wealth of info on their background to refere to when starting any painting project. You know all about them, who they fight, who their allies are, where they come from and why. To me this is almost essential for any personnal project I might consider undertaking (freelance work it doesn\'t matter that much as you\'re just doing what you\'re told for the most part).
For example, before I started my Tzeentch BeastLord for Paris GD I did loads of research into Beastmen and Tzeentch (and Brian Froud as it goes). Not just looking at pictures but reading all the \'history\'.
When I look at a Rackham figure I think: \"Oooh! Pretty!\". But then realise I don\'t know the first bloody thing about it! I\'m not about to use the published colour scheme because I want to do something original, so what alternatives would the background to the race suggest? I\'d want to convert any figure I used for a proper project, but again I\'m stuck because I\'ve no idea about the background.
I\'m certainly not saying GW are therefore better, they\'ve been around for ages and published more books than I can imagine, so of course they have more source material.
What I am saying is that I REALLY want to paint some Rackham stuff and I desperately need some source material. The funny little cards you get in the packs are no where near in depth enough and every thing else I\'ve seen has been in French and not much less brief. I need a point of access into the world of Rackham.
So, to sum up here are my two qestions:
1). Where the arse can I get some in depth source material for Rackham (in English).
2). Does anyone get what I mean about needing to understand the background and \'history\' of what they\'re painting or am I being flakey?
Finally an analogy to illustrate: You catch an episode of some random show called \"Buffy The Vampire Slayer\". You\'ve never seen it before, it was really cool but you no idea WTF is going on because it has no context for you. Taking an interest you endevour to find out more. As the wealth of back story and \'history\' presents itself you realise it\'s probably the coolest thing you\'ve ever seen and you buy every season on DVD. Possibly. That might just be me. Actually that was a crap analogy but hopefull you get the idea.
Yours on and on and on, Joe
