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08-13-2008, 11:27 AM
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#11
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Suicide Squad
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Location: Houston, TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by William Paquet
You could say that a maquette is always a statue, but a statue is not always a maquette. I think the term is being used simply for marketing purposes.
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Bingo.
This should be a sticky.
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08-13-2008, 11:32 AM
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#12
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Yeah, I spend WAY too much time here!
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 42,897
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joy_division
the robocop PF was listed as a maquetyte on the outside box and he certainly isn't small!
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1:4 scale can certainly be categorised as small when it's a scaled study of a life size.
Though perhaps "small " was a bad choice of wording in my original post. "Scaled" would have been more appropriate.
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08-13-2008, 01:50 PM
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#13
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U talkin' to me?
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 546
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Quote:
Originally Posted by William Paquet
You could say that a maquette is always a statue, but a statue is not always a maquette. I think the term is being used simply for marketing purposes.
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I'm sorry but I have to disagree, a maquette isn't necissarely a statue.
For example:
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08-13-2008, 01:59 PM
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Sculptor
Sculptor
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Insmouth
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cobblepot
I'm sorry but I have to disagree, a maquette isn't necissarely a statue.
For example:
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I never heard of something like being referred to as a maquette, but rather a "model".
But I could be wrong.
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08-13-2008, 02:05 PM
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U talkin' to me?
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Posts: 546
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08-13-2008, 02:07 PM
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Suicide Squad
Join Date: Mar 2005
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That looks like a city-scale model.
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08-13-2008, 02:13 PM
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U talkin' to me?
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 546
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It is, but it is also called a maquette.
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08-13-2008, 04:42 PM
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My baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster, two great big humps and then I'm gone
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Scotland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Trilogy
1:4 scale can certainly be categorised as small when it's a scaled study of a life size.
Though perhaps "small " was a bad choice of wording in my original post. "Scaled" would have been more appropriate.
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it certainly isn't smalled compared to the JLA maquettes!
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