Re: WGP's Classic Battlestar Galactica thread (head size question)
Apologies if Ive offended WGP but when I see comments like Ive paid upfront . . . and I see lots of threads for projects . . . it needs monitoring after all he who shall not be named "did great things terrible, yes, but great" Im all for fantastic results myself take as long as required, but gone are the days of parting with numerous £30's for 18 months while work, life and things get "on top of people" till they have a melt down and I see no refund or work for nearly two years. Im happy to see updates and sculpts getting better and better . . with my £30 in my sky rocket not someone else's that's fine with me
You should definitely be on the lookout and wary of any artists thread after all that has happened from different artists on these boards. What has gone on with so many mystifies me, but there are good signs to tell if somethings not going right.
WGP has four artists and we sculpted an amazing 18 heads in a four month period. We are well on our way to doing that in our next four month period, which we hope to out-do. Older threads (like Galactica, Supernatural) sat for a year untouched before we got the other sculptors to help pick up the slack because our one regular sculptor was getting too busy with his dayjob.
In the past, "he who should not be named", sculpted like two actual heads and was taking big deposits to take on new projects he wouldn't then actually do, and had thirty interest threads he was taking money off of as well with no new heads ever being shown. He never said no to anything.
WGP have new heads being completed all the time in our threads and update things when there is something to report. Trust me when I say our artists like to be paid. We turn down projects constantly both through PM and on the threads, and while we have taken pre-payments for a few lines (Indy, Trek, Galactica), we have a dozen others we have not taken any at all because with the delays on the earlier ones we don't feel comfortable doing that till we iron printing things out.
The annoying thing with printing a bunch of heads at once we learned is if something is wrong with a head, if you print them in a batch, many of the heads will suffer from the same problem (stretching, etc) so many had to be printed twice which has just been very expensive.
We should have pics of the first two Galactica heads within a few weeks (re-prints) as well as a slew of other heads (Indy, Trek, Supernatural).
Our biggest goal is a quicker turn-around which we are refining now.
-Rick
