ShellyS
12-19-2007, 12:40 AM
On Dec 18, 11:00 pm, Tina_H...@kruemel.org (Tina Hall) wrote:
> ShellyS <shell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
(snip)
> > I'd do that, if I could describe stuff from 2-D, but for action, I
> > can't. I don't have binocular vision, so my depth perception is off,
> > which probably makes it harder, now that I think of it, to get a real
> > sense of placement from movies. So I want to do action figure models.
> > I have enough Stargate figures, and they are nicely articulated, to
> > stand in for most of my characters (I can throw in some Spikes from
> > Buffy -- I have 3 of those -- for variety).
>
> :) I just want to say I like that.
>
> Way back when (somewhere teenage age), I wanted to get rich, get a
> house, and fill one room with Barbies, just for the figures and things.
> Later I saw some dragon figures and other fantasy motives that were
> really cool (much better than Barbies, too), that I'd like to collect.
> (No room, no money, but I still think they're cool. If I were rich and
> had a house, I'd fill one room with them.)
>
I got my first action figures 3 or 4 years ago, but I've gotten
heavily into them 2 years ago when I picked up a Mal from Serenity at
NY ComicCon. A dealer had 1 or 2 left and I snatched it up. They're so
well sculpted and articulated now (well, not all of them, some
companies pose them with limited articulation) and I love miniatures
and they fit in fairly well with my 1 inch to 1 foot scale dollhouses,
that I kept buying them. I have most them in shoeboxes because I have
no room for them otherwise. I take them out to pose for scenes and to
take pics of them (posted on flickr).
> So, whyever you bought them (and three Spikes :) ), I sympathise, and
> rather like it. (Oddly, I don't like normal dolls.)
>
:) The Spikes are all different. And 2 are wearing Hawaiian shirts I
got them at a dollhouse miniatures show. I have photos of those on
flickr, too.
(snip)
>
> For the big battle I just pre-decided on which tribe would do what (not
> that there's any actual close-up fighting).
>
> For the smaller battle of the viewpoint, I was more wondering about
> adding variety (of the bad guys), and what else I could mention. That
> just mentiones a few things from a fight that takes almost all night
> (bad guys piling onto the good guys row after row - there isn't room for
> them all to come in at once).
>
> No idea whether anyone else would like it done that way, though. I'm
> just saying you might not have to even imagine every move, never mind
> tell it.
>
I tend to have fewer characters, except for the riot at the rally
scene. And in the most recent draft, that changed into something
unexpected, as it provided a good place to fit something in that
covered something a beta reader had mentioned. So now, the riot not
only serves its own plot point, but it's a cover for another bit of
scheming that might slip under the reader's radar and yet the reader
can't say it wasn't mentioned. The aim is to keep people confused as
to who is doing what. But even with the riot, there are only 3
characters in the scene who matter, and moving them around logically
in a way it's interesting to read was tough and I hope I've succeeded.
> > That way, I can pose them, write, repose them for the next bit of
> > action, write, repose them, and so on. I don't know if it'll help,
> > but I need to make roomboxes for the figures anyway. Right now, most
> > of them are stuffed into shoeboxes.
>
> Ow. I wish I could come over and play with them. :)
>
> (Or at least take a good look.)
>
Photos of them cavorting for my camera are on flickr.com, user name
ShellyS (not much of a surprise there, I'd think). That might be the
next best thing. Right now, I've become enamored of 3 1/2 inch Star
Wars Stormtrooper figures. They're amazingly articulated for such
little guys, very posable. If I get enough, I might be able to pose
them for some real battles.
-- Shelly
> ShellyS <shell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
(snip)
> > I'd do that, if I could describe stuff from 2-D, but for action, I
> > can't. I don't have binocular vision, so my depth perception is off,
> > which probably makes it harder, now that I think of it, to get a real
> > sense of placement from movies. So I want to do action figure models.
> > I have enough Stargate figures, and they are nicely articulated, to
> > stand in for most of my characters (I can throw in some Spikes from
> > Buffy -- I have 3 of those -- for variety).
>
> :) I just want to say I like that.
>
> Way back when (somewhere teenage age), I wanted to get rich, get a
> house, and fill one room with Barbies, just for the figures and things.
> Later I saw some dragon figures and other fantasy motives that were
> really cool (much better than Barbies, too), that I'd like to collect.
> (No room, no money, but I still think they're cool. If I were rich and
> had a house, I'd fill one room with them.)
>
I got my first action figures 3 or 4 years ago, but I've gotten
heavily into them 2 years ago when I picked up a Mal from Serenity at
NY ComicCon. A dealer had 1 or 2 left and I snatched it up. They're so
well sculpted and articulated now (well, not all of them, some
companies pose them with limited articulation) and I love miniatures
and they fit in fairly well with my 1 inch to 1 foot scale dollhouses,
that I kept buying them. I have most them in shoeboxes because I have
no room for them otherwise. I take them out to pose for scenes and to
take pics of them (posted on flickr).
> So, whyever you bought them (and three Spikes :) ), I sympathise, and
> rather like it. (Oddly, I don't like normal dolls.)
>
:) The Spikes are all different. And 2 are wearing Hawaiian shirts I
got them at a dollhouse miniatures show. I have photos of those on
flickr, too.
(snip)
>
> For the big battle I just pre-decided on which tribe would do what (not
> that there's any actual close-up fighting).
>
> For the smaller battle of the viewpoint, I was more wondering about
> adding variety (of the bad guys), and what else I could mention. That
> just mentiones a few things from a fight that takes almost all night
> (bad guys piling onto the good guys row after row - there isn't room for
> them all to come in at once).
>
> No idea whether anyone else would like it done that way, though. I'm
> just saying you might not have to even imagine every move, never mind
> tell it.
>
I tend to have fewer characters, except for the riot at the rally
scene. And in the most recent draft, that changed into something
unexpected, as it provided a good place to fit something in that
covered something a beta reader had mentioned. So now, the riot not
only serves its own plot point, but it's a cover for another bit of
scheming that might slip under the reader's radar and yet the reader
can't say it wasn't mentioned. The aim is to keep people confused as
to who is doing what. But even with the riot, there are only 3
characters in the scene who matter, and moving them around logically
in a way it's interesting to read was tough and I hope I've succeeded.
> > That way, I can pose them, write, repose them for the next bit of
> > action, write, repose them, and so on. I don't know if it'll help,
> > but I need to make roomboxes for the figures anyway. Right now, most
> > of them are stuffed into shoeboxes.
>
> Ow. I wish I could come over and play with them. :)
>
> (Or at least take a good look.)
>
Photos of them cavorting for my camera are on flickr.com, user name
ShellyS (not much of a surprise there, I'd think). That might be the
next best thing. Right now, I've become enamored of 3 1/2 inch Star
Wars Stormtrooper figures. They're amazingly articulated for such
little guys, very posable. If I get enough, I might be able to pose
them for some real battles.
-- Shelly