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It's funny, I'd listen to Geoff chat for hours over a game or a pint, lovely fella with deep knowledge and plenty of interest to say. But podcasts bore the arse off me. Once upon a time I listened to those my friends were on just to give them the support, I don't think they need that support anymore!
 
I have listened to a few of the latest ones, and I have some questions.

1) What on earth happened to Orlygg's Miniature collection? I initially thought it had disappeared, lost forever in a house fire or robbery, but then he mentioned his kids bring him some of it every now and again. What is going on?

2) Why does Mark Copplestone never appear anywhere in these nostalgic videos/podcasts/articles?
 
I don't know him personally, but I believe from what I've read on the blog that there was a divorce involved so presumably some items surface from time to time with his previous partner and their children? That's my best guess.

As to Mark's absence from the lime light no idea!
 
Eric said:
I don't know him personally, but I believe from what I've read on the blog that there was a divorce involved so presumably some items surface from time to time with his previous partner and their children? That's my best guess.

As to Mark's absence from the lime light no idea!
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Aaaaaah, that would explain a few things that have been puzzling me.

Cheers
 
Bong0_clive said:
I have listened to a few of the latest ones, and I have some questions.

1) What on earth happened to Orlygg's Miniature collection? I initially thought it had disappeared, lost forever in a house fire or robbery, but then he mentioned his kids bring him some of it every now and again. What is going on?

2) Why does Mark Copplestone never appear anywhere in these nostalgic videos/podcasts/articles?
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I was very sad to hear about Orlygg's travails, his blog was what got me back into the hobby. It was nice to hear him speak on the Bedroom Battlefields podcast, the presenter seems like a nice bloke and is a good interviewer. I hope he does get all his collection back because they were so inspirational.

I often think about Mark Copplestone, who is probably my favourite sculptor. I own loads of Citadel, Grenadier and Copplestone Casting miniatures that he did. I always wondered if he worked freelance, the Grenadier barbarians he did looked to be fairly contemporary with the work he did for Citadel (c. late 80s early 90s).

I think a lot of the GW creatives are quite shy or matter of fact about what they did or do, and don't feel comfortable with all the adulation or hero worship they get from fans. Paul Bonner came across like that, he is very good at what he does, and doesn't seem to worry overmuch about self promotion. Its quite refreshing really in the modern world where attention seeking is rife amongst creatives.
 
Totally. Keeping it real, refreshing! I guess for some of them back in the day, especially the creative types, they had landed on their feet - job plus hobby! Trish Carden(was Morrison) put a photo up this morning on her Facebook page of the GW staff back in 1987, what a ragtag crew! :) Someone commented that Jervis Johnson looked like (& came dressed as) a maths teacher, shirt & tie. :D 'Sid' looked like he'd rocked up from a madmax set. Hal smoking a tab in the far corner. Rick Priestley head down like he shouldn't be there... A talented bunch doing their thing!

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Paul Bonner quietly does his thing, shows us his recent stuff on facebook - today he announced he was off to Poland for something or other...
 
willlucv said:
I think a lot of the GW creatives are quite shy or matter of fact about what they did or do, and don't feel comfortable with all the adulation or hero worship they get from fans.
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I think my experience of BOYL was that the majority of people just wanted to get on with playing games, chatting, and were happy simply saying hello to the GW creatives, chatting about life in general if the opportunity came up; basically treating them as normal human beings. Then there was a rump of people who seemed star-struck and it almost felt like they went primarily to tail the GW creatives - who were polite and friendly about it to be fair, but I don't think knew quite what to do with the adulation.

One thing I will say is, never get stuck in a game with the star-struck crew. They'll be off chatting to the celebs when it's their turn, too distracted to pay attention. It disrupts the game no end.
 
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Fighelm said:
Totally. Keeping it real, refreshing! I guess for some of them back in the day, especially the creative types, they had landed on their feet - job plus hobby! Trish Carden(was Morrison) put a photo up this morning on her Facebook page of the GW staff back in 1987, what a ragtag crew! :) Someone commented that Jervis Johnson looked like (& came dressed as) a maths teacher, shirt & tie. :D 'Sid' looked like he'd rocked up from a madmax set. Hal smoking a tab in the far corner. Rick Priestley head down like he shouldn't be there... A talented bunch doing their thing!


Paul Bonner quietly does his thing, shows us his recent stuff on facebook - today he announced he was off to Poland for something or other...
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Trish Carden is really lovely and does a great Facebook site. I like her needlepoint scenery she does, looks amazingly realistic. I do fancy getting the swamp serpent and some treemen from her Harrowhyrst range.

I like all the old photos in the Dicemen book, forgot how many people used to turn up to work in a shirt and tie, even if they weren't customer facing. As you say you get the full range of styles and personas, sort of like The Young Ones.
 
She does and is! Been following her work on fb for a few years purely because she comes across as so altruistic, it's like an "everyone in" and come join us club. Not only does she share stories (and laughs) with those ex-gw creative still around, but always sharing her drawings for sculpts- the really interesting prototype/ archive stuff - and her own kept greenstuff models. She is brilliant at explaining how she makes them, & the tools used + her techniques - a real masterclass!!! And as I've said before, her chatty Scots/Lothian(?) accent is brilliantly disarming when listening to her YouTube vids. A great talent and openly generous with it.
 
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