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Post by mister frau blucher on May 14, 2011 12:48:35 GMT -5
Brian Apple of Bluewater Miniatures has created a number of figures for Dark City Games. Some of his sculpts are of races unique to our adventures such as tigrans and ursans. Please check out his website (add the ubiqutous dot com to the end of his company's name), and if you send him some business, please mention that we recommended him!
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Post by wolfsbane on Aug 24, 2020 14:42:56 GMT -5
Are Bluewater Miniatures still around ?
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Post by mister frau blucher on Aug 25, 2020 7:34:57 GMT -5
Are Bluewater Miniatures still around ? Hey, wolfsbane, I do not believe so. Their website went down four or five years ago, and I had actually lost contact with him before that. The last I had heard from Brian, he was having some heart trouble. I never found a contact point for him after the website went down. Maybe it is easier now with all the avenues of social media, but he was an old school guy so not sure if he would have gotten into that, any more than I am. Thanks for the reminder that I need to try tracking him down again. He was around in the early days of the hobby, doing work for Ral Partha, and I think Heritage, too, and he was real nice guy to us when we showed up at Gen Con in 2006-8. I hope he is well. |
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Post by mister frau blucher on Aug 25, 2020 7:43:13 GMT -5
I did a google search of "Brian Apple" "Bluewater Miniatures" and found a facebook page that belongs to him, but it has not had a public post since 2011. I am embarrassed to say that I actually have a facebook page, so I am going to send him a friend request and see what the response is.
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Post by mister frau blucher on Aug 26, 2020 13:29:38 GMT -5
No word yet, from my Facebook request, but I did some more searches and did not turn up any obituary, so I am hopeful that Brian is still around. I also went by the Lost Minis Wiki and searched his name, and he is listed as having made minis for Ral Partha, Iron Wind (which is the company that arose from Ral Partha's ashes, with pretty much the same ownership), and a company called TA-HR. Turned out this was a company started by Brian in 1979, based on his own RPG campaign, and had Julie Guthrie as one of its sculptors. Real cool logo. Oddly enough, Bluewater Miniatures is not listed here, nor anywhere on the Lost Minis site. Check out his page here (and click on the TA-HR link for the logo): www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Brian_AppleI'll update if I hear back from him. As it is, I am happy to have some copies of the figures he made for DCG - maybe I'll post some photos soon. |
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Post by wolfsbane on Sept 11, 2020 9:20:22 GMT -5
Thank you
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Post by mister frau blucher on Oct 20, 2020 18:24:19 GMT -5
Still no word from Brian on Facebook or email. I have done some work for Ral Partha the last few years, some writing and editing on their last couple of Campaign Books for their Chaos Wars line. I'll ask Jacob, who is a brilliant historian of the miniatures hobby, if he has heard anything about Brian.
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