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« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2006, 04:22:45 AM » |
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Here are the Staggs' cards  |
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« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2006, 04:53:40 AM » |
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Ah, you're the one who won the grieving Eomer holding Eowyn card... That was the one I wanted most out of all I saw displayed. A fantastic collection to be sure!
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« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2006, 05:02:40 AM » |
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wow, rei, totally AWESOME!!
your kayanans are fantastic!
cannot bear to imagine your staggs cards all finished and colored!!! unbelievable!!
how will you display them?
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« Reply #23 on: April 29, 2006, 05:06:26 AM » |
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Ah, you're the one who won the grieving Eomer holding Eowyn card... That was the one I wanted most out of all I saw displayed. A fantastic collection to be sure!
It's one of the best cards in my collection. It is very detailed, impossible to show on the pic of this message board. I have a very high resolution pic of it, if you send me an email I will return it with the pic. The pic itself is 2MB. Also the reading Gandalf is amazing, the detail, it's incredible. I really do not understand how people can make something like this with just a few markers. I also have the Aragorn opening the doors in my collection. Got it directly from Rafael, it was one of the 6 he got returned. Very nice too. Also the card of the Ringwraith on the weather tower is very nice in real life. You can she the other wraiths in the background of the card but with this pic it is just too blurred. I could go on and on about these cards but that is a role I want to leave for OCDLOTR.  |
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« Reply #24 on: April 29, 2006, 05:15:08 AM » |
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how will you display them?
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« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2006, 05:22:42 AM » |
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how will you display them?
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I have no idea yet. i wonder how light affects these sketches as we had questioned with the autos with their UV coating. these dont have that. would the colors fade too? ed |
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« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2006, 05:26:42 AM » |
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how will you display them?
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I have no idea yet. ... VERY carefully away from direct heat and sunlight and housed in some kind of archival quality storage media I would have thought!  I imagine the colours would fade Ed ... I wouldn't like to risk displaying them for that reason alone.  Good grief Ray ... truly an outstanding collection of some of the best examples by Kayanan and Cat but I shudder to think how much $$$ you've spent to get them .... |
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« Reply #27 on: April 29, 2006, 05:34:32 AM » |
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Do you think laminating them is a way to protect the colors? |
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« Reply #28 on: April 29, 2006, 05:43:10 AM » |
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Do you think laminating them is a way to protect the colors? ermmmmmm NO!! Unless you want to risk ruining the cards .... I believe there's special display glass available if you really wanted to get them professionally framed ... perhaps a group of them together in a large frame? |
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« Reply #29 on: April 29, 2006, 06:14:38 AM » |
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Do you think laminating them is a way to protect the colors? ermmmmmm NO!! Unless you want to risk ruining the cards .... but it does protect the colors, right?  honestly, i dont even think laminating them will protect colors. only the dark will...with specialized (museum quality) lighting for selective viewing!! |
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« Reply #30 on: April 29, 2006, 07:49:44 AM » |
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WOW, that's quite a collection! You need to rent a suite and charge admission so the rest of us can bask in the glory of these cards...
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« Reply #31 on: April 29, 2006, 08:16:59 AM » |
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Most of these sketch artists (not all) work in a wash of watercolor or acrylic...and then overlay that basic wash with prismacolor colored pencils...these pencils have an incredible amount of WAX binder that may coat the image with a soft blurry undertone...but...with a very slight rubbing with your fingers (actually the oil in your fingers)...the faint oil 'touch' will bring back the original 'glow' of the colors. Like all encaustic wax medium based color, the color actually holds as much as oil as long as it is kept in a 'sunny-less' cool (as in less direct light) space... ...the Staggs you have aquired are incredulously unbelievably PERFECT!!!...not a mediocre individual card in the ENTIRE batch...these are all...perfect STAGGS!...each individual portrait captures the quintessential characteristics of each Fellowship hero (and non-Fellowship heroine...we all know females are the more intelligent species!...at least Tolkien and I believe that!)...these STAGGS sketch cards are PERFECTION !!!...quite a brilliant eye for pulling these particular available Staggs cards out of the plethora out there on EBAY...really an acievement!  |
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« Reply #32 on: April 29, 2006, 07:18:52 PM » |
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I think ocdlotr likes you collection Ray... I just get this feeling Not that I blame you - what a stunning collection! Congrats and definitely on no account let your girlfriend know what it is worth! |
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« Reply #33 on: April 30, 2006, 05:44:12 PM » |
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I have one Kayanan in my collection that I pack pulled. It doesn't have a lot of color, but I like it  You like it? It's awesome! It's a Legolas if I remember correctly and I think it's one of Rafael's better ones of Legolas. |
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« Reply #34 on: April 30, 2006, 10:32:12 PM » |
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Uh...not that I'm counting...but...you've only posted 14 Kayanans... I'M DYING TO SEE THE OTHER 6 !!! (or have you already added more to that beautiful batch?) That Balrog is still my favorite although the Persian minature Gandalf is spectacular...must be loads of detailed undercolor up colose and personal. |
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« Reply #35 on: April 30, 2006, 10:47:38 PM » |
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Not all of them have arrived yet and I did not take pics of all of them yet.
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« Reply #36 on: April 30, 2006, 10:57:13 PM » |
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They include Aragorn opening the doors at Helms Deep and the King of Death that are both listed on the LOTRsketchcard site.
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