Bob Naismith on Space Marines
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2024
- Bob Naismith sculpted some of the very first Space Marines, and here he talks a little bit about that process, and how they've evolved over the years. He also talks a bit about his career and his own sculpting endeavours!
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I hope some of the newer fans will find their way on this channel someday. These people are LEGENDS.
I don’t… -I’m sick of the prices going up!!! 😂
100% Will be promoting for sure.
Why? It's a whole different thing and it will never come back...
only just started 'intentionally' learning about 40k last month. keen to keep the original soul and passion running though the hobby, seems it really needs it recently...
I feel proud of being a young person who likes the old vintage side of the franchise
I like how all these founders of the biggest hobby brand in the world sit in completely normal, suburban, slightly messy houses and apartments while a company that today is run by a completely different bunch of people are making millions on their ideas and designs.
creatives often don't make great business people
@@randomname3109 Business people often make great exploiters of creatives and therefore are rightfully labelled 'arseholes' and should be treated as such.
@@fulcrum8583 A f'n MEN to that. The corporate tapeworms.
that's how capitalism works I'm afraid. They were paid to do a job at that time, unknowing that it would be as big as it is now. All creatives are paid relatively little compared to the management level staff that own the business.
@@TheBunnan What alternative to capitalism would have worked better for these guys? At the time this was a niche game with little visibility. No one at GW was making a lot of money in the early days. They made a comfortable living. From all the interviews I've seen they're happy people.
He's had such a varied career in sculpting, that he's just kept going all this time, complete with transitioning to digital, amazing stuff. Good on him.
Would love to hear more about both pre and post-citadel BN.
More interviews with this chap. He has so many stories and he's such an enjoyable gent to listen to.
You can just hear the string of curses to make a sailor blush at those execs who clumsily handled his masters. "Incredibly frustrated".... XD
That plastic skeleton set. I seem to remember it being 12 quid for thirty skeleton warriors, some bow skellies, plus some horsemen and a chariot. Blew my tiny little ten year old mind. Was incredible value for the time, plus the sculpts looked exceptional.
My mother was a bit appalled by the box art, it was kind intense for its time. The gaunt skulls and barbed weapons made her shiver. Just made me love them all the more, of course! I bought the Realm of Chaos books around the same time and those I just plain hid from her like they were dirty mags. Those were truly transgressive and I loved them.
Why can I spend so long listening to old sculptors talk?
What weird hold do they and their stories have over me?
10/10 would watch again
It’s storytelling.
And they have interesting stories.
This must be how Marines feel when Bjorn speaks.
I met Bob in the Car park of GW's HQ (Chewton St, Eastwood, circa 1989) where he had a portacabin. It was in here he showed me the initial "Epic" scale marines that he had individually injection moulded the concept of producing these tiny minis in plastic on a vast scale, the 5mm metal minis included within the "Adeptus Titanicus" blistered titans was unsustainable (at an army level) due to the exceptional demand in production at the factory for 28mm figs. Thanks for a great interview Bob, it was always a pleasure to work & talk to you, all the best.
These will always be my favorite versions of space marines. Each figure had such individual character like medieval knights.
I love how casually Bob talks about changing the entire history of gw. Could listen to him for hours
Got into 40k in 4th, left the hobby in my teenage years, now I rediscovered it as an adult. I live for these uploads mate.
I was in at 2nd Edition and also left when I found the pub, cars and females. Rekindled my love during lockdown. I feel there are so many who have followed a similar path, brother-man.
@@j4ksx exactly the same, it really was like a hive mind thing
@@BSJDynasty yeah I mean in all honesty, 40K never lost its magic after 23 years out. I jumped back in and started my own customised army with my trusty green stuff and epoxy resin.
This endless butthurtedness over the xenophobic dickless sociopaths having tits all-of-a-sudden is become rather grating I must admit. I feel GW hasn't changed...40K gamers have become rather cunting, though. Absolute scenes over nothing.
@@BSJDynastysame
@@BSJDynastybut sad to see the state it’s currently in
Always makes me happy seeing Scottish sculptors
I could happily listen to Bob all day....
my favourite mini is one of Bob Naismith's proto terminators. Absolutely love it. Recently stripped it, as my 14yo self's paint job wasn't the best, and it looks totally at home next to its bigger deathwing brothers
God - these massive names from early teenage years. A privilege to hear from them.
That first space marine looked sick
That Skeleton Army box was the first thing I ever got, back in the early 90's....good god's i loved those things. Thank you for the memories you let me make!
Bob Naismith is an absolute legend. Fantastic interview!
Bob's a humble guy, but whenever his name comes up in podcasts with other old GW heads you get a sense of how highly he's regarded.
Loved this, talks about Space Marines, then goes off on a tangent about other models, and is more interesting.
Love Bob Naismith, hes easily my biggest influence in my own sculpting
Loved listening to Bob, he has a fantastic power of recall and is very engaging and fair in how he relates events. I think he secretly enjoyed sharing some stories too!
Even though this interview is touching on Warhammer quite lightly, I think it's the best one so far. Bob Naismith is a great storyteller. And the way he injects little footnotes into his own narrative is hilarious.
What a lovely chap you are, Bob! I really enjoyed your digital sculpting advice to be a bit mercurial with software: just keep export/importing models across to whichever suite is best suited for the job!
Thank you for agreeing to being interviewed and Thank you Tom for everything else!!
Thanks for even more of these videos! Please do more!
Would love to hear more about the Citadel AD&D range. I'm the guy who did the CCM pages on it and would appreciate additional information.
Sitting basing up a bunch of Bob's spectacular 10mm Landsknechte when this dropped - great stuff!
Who makes these figures? Sounds cool.
Excellent informative video! Bob is a legend in the hobby! God bless him! 👍🏻🎅👍🏻
One of the first to ever see an Astartes finished, since it was his hand that wrought it.
What a nice man.
All the best to you too, Bob.
Bob Naismith and Jes Goodwin and the Crimson Fist-artist for the box and Rouge Trader-rulebook are the reason for the game selling so hard. Also the original Imperial Guard- and Orks-plastic boxes are totally still the best.
I loved his Tony the Tiger figures
A true cornerstone of the hobby!
I could listen to Mr Naismith all day.
I'm 6 decades along and my first space marines were 35 years ago.. Wow still got some of those and frankly only have Mk6 metals and a few plastics and nothing of the newer types.
What a solid down to earth guy. I really enjoyed that video and him talking.
Recently completed the full set of those first marines at 2:19 - insane detail for their day. This whole video is a treat.
Having had one or two for many years, I only just recently got the rest of the C100 space marines, made me really happy to finally get the whole set together. I also sculpt my own minis from time to time, even won a community competition once, not that anything came of it, and even though I find sculpting by hand easy, in the sense you can just making things with a bit of putty and some tools, I always loved the idea of digital sculpting and maing everything perfect! Only problem for me is that, 1. I have absolutely no clue how to use the free sculpting programmes, and don't know enough to even judge if there any good and 2. no where near enmough money to get into the proper, professional ones that Bob mentioned; last time I looked into it it was several hundred pounds and you only got a license to rent the thing not actually own a copy.
Anyway, great interview, Bob seems like a really nice guy and I always loved his sculpts for the individuality of them, the digital sculpts might be more polished perhaps (if they haven't cut corners with the design) but they can be a bit hollow somehow, and lack the life of a hand sculpted miniature.
You can't really go wrong with installing Blender and having a go. Just focus on a specific type of modeling you want to get into (organic, hard surface, etc.) and stick with that for a bit as the learning curve can be quite steep.
Seems like so a solid gentleman.
That was lovely to see this and hear from Bob about the creation of the very first Space marines! He can be very proud to be the first one to make them materialize in the world of three dimensions! Is that a haptic feedback sculpt input pen I see on the desk? Always wondered if those were any good?
Just thinking now it would be really interesting to see how a, say, Primaris model would look were it sculpted in more of a traditional way. I mean same size but with the olde materials and techniques. I like much of GW's new stuff there's also something a bit missing with like Bob says a bit too perfect edges, simple cylinder and other primitive shapes and hyper smooth surfaces.
Thank you both for this video! :)
Amazing interview. Bob has wisdom accrued from significant experience in the industry.
Loved his stuff for the Starship Troopers game
Allan Merritt was corroborating some of Trish’s tales on Facebook very recently - I’d love to see you extract some of his stories!
Great as always! Thanks, Tom and Bob.
Fantastic ! Thank you very much for this interview.
Thanks for sharing!!
Excellent.
Just fantastic
love these videos, this is great
Another great video! Thanks for making and sharing these.
Nice video!
Fantastic that you get all thesw cool interviews! Thanks for sharing the stories!
I honestly prefer the original space marine design, it's... rougher, more sci-fi (all those cables and tubes!), and, most importantly, it doesn't have flared, Megaman-style lower legs.
That was great. What a nice guy!
Very cool!
Cool thx.
Makes one proud to be British
Ooh! Save to watch later.
You have access to such incredible people, sharing precious knowledge. Why are your interviews so short? Surely you don't visit them and let them talk for only 20 minutes?
I pitch up with camera, hit record and let them talk. It’s not a case of me “letting them” talk for 20 minutes. Bob said all he wanted to say on the topic.
Thanks for your reply. You are creating a valuable archive in my opinion. It's amazing listening to the hobby veterans. Thank you for what you do and your efforts! It would be amazing if you could find a way to make these interviews longer! Much obliged!
The grandfather of the beakey boys
'Talking to people all day long can be exhausting' = Truth
Can anyone confirm that the Bluebird cricket game referred to is the U.K edition of Test Match ? .Me and my elder brother spent many an hour in the eighties playing that game !
Does anyone remember the name of the spin off company that formed in the mid 90s from GW?? Think it has the word hearts in it.
I think it's Heartbreakers miniatures.
I see a 3d Printer in the background and some sort of 3d sculpting tool on the desk?
He has a store and a Patreon where he sells stl files for printing.
SELL THESE MINIATURES IN PLASTIC AND METAL AGAIN! FOR GOD'S SAKE!
I have the first one limited edition one! How much is it worth?
The RT era metal?
Or the 30th anniversary special plastic sculpt?
@@Mugdorna metal one
@@Mugdorna but i think its an aniversary one
@@Mugdorna i got i as a special for getting silverskulls or some bonus program but i think it must been ruffly about the 2000 Years
@@leonatus221 the imperial space marines from c100?
I want to hear the old guard sound off on the bastardization and destruction of our IP we hold MOST DEAR. For the love of Terra.
well your the guy who did ALL well thanks me got lot both platic and matel and wish cud get last 10 more of box of 36 realy liked the minis and i am stel doing em just finshed a knight vid and pic soon to AL who ead this but we will see as post new UUUUGG got sub i gess
Now I really want to travel to a wargaming convention just to raise an issue with Bob Naismith. My only problem is that I don't have an issue... I might think of one by the time I get there
Seems like a nice chap, but the interview was a missed opportunity. Would much rather hear more about his design ideas for why the space marines ended up looking like they do, instead of hearing him talk about digital tools or whatever.
I don’t really have any input on these, I’m just facilitating putting some videos online. Bob said what he wanted to say on the topic.
Shame Games Workshop has become such a trash company in recent years.
OK Bob but lets cut to the chase;
Can women be Space Marines yay or nay?