Just how rare?

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:00 pm

traveller wrote:I ´m translating the single german parts now... but i still keep a open space for this mini .... you never knew !!

I'm 100% confident we'll never see even a test cast of CD #7 traveller. My understand was that the green was destroyed while making the 1st test cast of the figure and that the test cast was too screwed up to keep and use a metal master. This information came from a GW-UK guy who worked in the mould room when these figures were first being made.

Galak

narkotic · Post by **narkotic** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:00 pm

Dave wrote:isn't that the blister from that auction I won ??

Yes, it is but you should add that you managed to win that auction because of the "CD#6 finance consortium".

Post by **Dave** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:01 pm

yup .. that one

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:01 pm

Speaking of rare minis .. nark ... answer your PMs ... need to talk to you.

Thanks,
Galak

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:29 pm

Speaking of rare minis .. nark ... answer your PMs ... need to talk to you.

hahaha... i thought, narkotic will be contacted .... and i will replay later to your PM, Galak, too !

No time at the moment...

Traveller

Dain · Post by **Dain** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:43 am

Since i have strip out the fig, maybe this scan will help you to decide if it is an official thrower #3 or not

The only conversions i have made are to remove spikes and the "chicken crete"...

Dain · Post by **Dain** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:44 am

i forgot...
The text under the fig is
@GW1982
Chucker

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:18 pm

Dain wrote:The only conversions i have made are to remove spikes and the "chicken crete"...

Dain ... what does this mean exactly. Did you actually already convert this figure (ie snip off real pieces of the miniature?

Galak

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:25 pm

Dain ... depending on the conversion it sounds like you aready might have done ... that could very well be a REALLY well converted Thrower #2.

Signs that indicate this to me. The arm is bent different than Thrower #2 but the back of the arm from your scan clearly shows what looks like stress marks from this bend at the point where they are different.

The Thower #2 has a pointed finger but this does not. But again in your scan I can see stress marks where the finger appears to have been bent down.

So that leaves the other 3 changes. The missing spikes from both shoulder pads and the crest line on the helmet ... which it sounds like you may have removed yourself.

So with all that ... I leaning right now on masterful conversion and not unique fig.

Hopefully Traveller can add his 2 cents on this.

Galak

Dropdeadfred · Post by **Dropdeadfred** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:19 pm

Galak the private eye, hide your converted hunman throwers #2 to #3 Galak is about

i can see where Galak is comming from not that i know much about minis but i can see the stress liknes

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:09 pm

I see all the same things Galak does too. The finger is You can see the crack right behind the gauntlet.

One other "clue" is the lack of GW part number. We know that the CD7 once existed but was destroyed before any could be spun but that mini's # still exists. If there was a 3rd Human thrower, he would still have a part number and this one doesn't.

Thanks, Dain, for finally stripping that fig and clearing this up.

Dain · Post by **Dain** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:21 pm

GalakStarscraper wrote:Dain ... what does this mean exactly. Did you actually already convert this figure (ie snip off real pieces of the miniature?
Galak

Yes, i have converted the mini BUT ... just by removing spikes and the same crete than the 2nd ed thrower #2

The finger hasn't been converted. Even if there is stress on it, it could means the fig has fallen and been damaged. The finger has not been converted too; If i did it, we could easlily see the real shape of it. In that case the whole fist is in one part

For the arm, same thing, i have not bend the arm. Nevertheless, i agree that the previous owner could have made it

But i don't think so. He wasn't fine enough to make it without damage the fig.

As you said, this could be a converted mini, but after making many many conversions i could say that:
1) The arm hasn't been bent -> a rotation of 90° of it should have broke it.
2) The fist is in one part without finger conversion. ->making a fist like that is easier with Green stuff. If i agree we can stress on it, there is too much metal under the finger to think it has been bent

I will try to make a photo with my camera, maybe this will show you much details.

Dain · Post by **Dain** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:24 pm

More...
i will try to make the same mini with the other thrower i have, and we will see if i can match this masterful conversion

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:28 pm

FYI "crete" is French for crest.. as in the ridge on the helmet...

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:31 pm

Am I imagining it but on the rear shot of the mini, does the fist on the right not look too flat, as though it was filed or dropped?

to me, the marks between the elbow pad and the gauntlet look like a small line cut to make bending it easier. And the finger looks like the kind of mess I used to make in my first conversions. Not masterful in any way