Smaug - Will we see him or not?

Sithious · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:17 pm

So his head is about twice the height of a Hobbit. Doesn't seem so hard to make a model of to me. I think the only thing epic sized is the exaggerations of how big the model should be. I think that this is very easily within GW's ability to produce (those 8" tall knights for example and mumakil). With plastic sprues and insert changes and breaking up the sculpt into head parts, tail, neck, body halves, legs, and wings... way easy.

There is absolutely NO excuse for this to not be made. Delayed because PJ couldn't make up his mind on 90% of the film until editing, yes. Delayed because of rights, maybe. Delayed or not made because The Hobbit is not selling, perhaps if they can sell that tale. I am sure that they were not allowed to show anything about smaug as it is a spoiler for the films, so that is big reason 1 for not having him in the books. He would make a fine summer/fall release to have it out for xmas sales.
I expect Smaug to be coming for sure.

Grungehog · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:53 pm

In that picture, I love the four legs big time

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:59 pm

Miniman, where is that photo from? The new 'making of' book for smaug? I gotta say that I do love that picture, the four legs do look great. However, I also love smaug as he is now, and the thing was never if he looked good on the ground, but rather how he looked mid-flight.

army-of-the-dom · **Joined:** Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:06 pm **Posts:** 258

Sithious wrote:

So his head is about twice the height of a Hobbit. Doesn't seem so hard to make a model of to me. I think the only thing epic sized is the exaggerations of how big the model should be. I think that this is very easily within GW's ability to produce (those 8" tall knights for example and mumakil). With plastic sprues and insert changes and breaking up the sculpt into head parts, tail, neck, body halves, legs, and wings... way easy.

There is absolutely NO excuse for this to not be made. Delayed because PJ couldn't make up his mind on 90% of the film until editing, yes. Delayed because of rights, maybe. Delayed or not made because The Hobbit is not selling, perhaps if they can sell that tale. I am sure that they were not allowed to show anything about smaug as it is a spoiler for the films, so that is big reason 1 for not having him in the books. He would make a fine summer/fall release to have it out for xmas sales.
I expect Smaug to be coming for sure.

Couldn't agree more!! I think it will come once the DVD is released worldwide so it isn't a spoilers for anyone who didn't go to the cinema, so I would expect it at around May June sort of time imo

Sithious · **Posted:** Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:16 am

according to my rough calculations (gridding out the photo from above based on .75" for a hobbit) the model would be 10.5" tall at where the neck curve is and would need a base that is 17.25" long. See, that isn't big at all. But scaled back and posed to fit, who knows what GW will do with it.

Miniman · **Posted:** Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:17 am

theavenger001 wrote:

Miniman, where is that photo from? The new 'making of' book for smaug?

Yes it's from the book, a little teaser from facebook.

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