I feel obliged to add some more information about that catalogue as my name was unintentionally reveiled in connection with the publishing of the catalogue.
Some years ago I got into contact with Master Zoetrop and we learned that we had similar visions about a complete Mithril-catalogue being made, as there was none. Zoetrop then kept a lot of material for that, including his always up-to-date price lists he has been working on for so many years by now. It was him who did all that work alone. I was glad to hold the first catalogue (2009) in my hands after a few copies were printed (by the way, they were 30,00 € each, because of the low edition). He then tried to contact Chris Tubb and Mithril offering to release his catalogue for free, as that always was his intention. He never wanted and still doesn’t want to make money out of that. The reaction was negative, as there were ideas that a catalogue should be based on black and white pictures of the same quality.
Of course this a serious argument which I clearly can understand. – Though by now time has taught some of us that such a challenge is about to be impossible to be realized, as it requires all original figures unpainted at one place to be photographed by a professional photographer. Just imagine …
So, then I gave Zoetrop one of that extra sets of the MX-UP just to reward him for all his work and effort. He wasn’t willing to accept it that way and gave me 6 of his first catalogues in return. Those I gave away to some members here, asking for reactions or reviews. All were definitely positive. – Zoetrop’s idea originally was to release that catalogue once a year with uptdated price lists and releases.
While completing his second edition of the catalogue he contacted me again asking if I could help writing some emails for offering the catalogue again. We were not hopeful at all about any success then, because of the former negative reactions. In spite of that I tried contacting Chris Tubb and Lars Edman about this matter. It took some time, because all had a lot to do with copyrights and things like that. Finally both agreed to have the catalogue being published. I remember Chris saying something like “better to have it published that way than not having a complete catalogue at all”.
The present catalogue is called 2010, though it’s incorrect. In this edition there are also the first MS-figures 2011 listed and the price list is 2011. I also like that Zoetrop decided to add pictures of Master Turambar’s dioramas which show what could be achieved with those nice figures.
I’ll try to contact Michael O’Brien next week about these slight mistakes in the order of the pages and asking him to add some instruction about how to print the pdf-catalogue correctly.
… but, as you might know, I cannot haste everything … right?
oh, just see, it’s me, the tree … 3500th entry … alas, talkative I really am …
