ARH 2014 STATUES ARRIVAL!

[toty21]

Nothing Frazetta has arrived yet, which I suspect is where most folk's interest lies.

[TNovak]

Originally Posted by Valkyrie

I'll definitely try to give you my opinion once I receive her, TNovak. She and DD will be my first ARH pieces so I hope they both exceed my expectations.

I agree the base looks like it will be a challenge, but I couldn't pass on her. For me, the painting was always one of my favorites but I'm admittedly weak when it comes to curvy, warrior-type ladies in art.

Thanks man,

Another thing that made it hard for me to pass was the fact that this was sculpted by Tony Cipriano (although the facewas later altered) and Tony is one of my favorite sculptors. For my money no Frazetta sculpt that I have seen in person to date measures up to his Snow Giants in terms of correctly getting the painting transferred to 3D sculpt.

[Valkyrie]

Originally Posted by TNovak

Thanks man,

Another thing that made it hard for me to pass was the fact that this was sculpted by Tony Cipriano (although the facewas later altered) and Tony is one of my favorite sculptors. For my money no Frazetta sculpt that I have seen in person to date measures up to his Snow Giants in terms of correctly getting the painting transferred to 3D sculpt.

I've only seen the Snow Giants piece in photos, but I agree he did an amazing job on that.

Yeah, I had mixed feelings about the face alteration at first, but I grew to like it. Tony's original sculpt was undoubtedly closer to the painting, but I'm not sure it translated well to statue form. In hindsight, it felt kind of simplistic and lacked definition. That's not a knock against Tony but probably the best he could do with what he had to work from. Her face in the painting isn't extremely well defined to begin with, similar to the girl in the Barbarian painting. That's why ARH had to alter her face on that statue which I'm totally fine with. I feel the new face on Huntress still captures the essence of the original sculpt but has more definition to it and will look better in hand.

Edit: It's too late now, but did you consider going for the solo Huntress? Smaller base and half the price.

[crimsinwing1989]

Originally Posted by Valkyrie

Yea the newer head definitely looks way better imo.

[TNovak]

Originally Posted by Valkyrie

I've only seen the Snow Giants piece in photos, but I agree he did an amazing job on that.


Edit: It's too late now, but did you consider going for the solo Huntress? Smaller base and half the price.

No it was always with the cats or nothing for me. As I said it has never been one of my favorite Frazetta paintings but the cats are a huge part of it and I wouldn't consider buying just the girl.

RE the Snow Giants, you can pick them up fairly cheaply these days, if you don't have them you should buy them. You will not be disappointed.

[BOB555]

Do they give shipping notice? Or just ship the statue I have Ares gold on order

[Valkyrie]

Originally Posted by TNovak

No it was always with the cats or nothing for me. As I said it has never been one of my favorite Frazetta paintings but the cats are a huge part of it and I wouldn't consider buying just the girl.

RE the Snow Giants, you can pick them up fairly cheaply these days, if you don't have them you should buy them. You will not be disappointed.

Yeah, I figured that's what you were going to say.

I completely agree which is why I didn't go for solo Barbarian either. Had to have the complete version there as well.

[zeus]

Ok so they received the statues,but no news if they started shipping them yet!

[Mister Ski]

I got a shipping notice for Tarzan yesterday.

[Valkyrie]

Update on FB.

Guys, Just letting everyone know that we have started shipping the 2014 line of statues. We are shipping everything by product, and we have already shipped out TARZAN and HERCULES. Tomorrow we start on ARHIAN and so forth.
This week yet, we hope to send out most shipping notices to everyone. If you don't receive yours, please contact us at arhstudios@hotmail.com
best,
Arahom Radjah