I can imagine Grand Moff Tarkin in his private quarters aboard the Death Star, idling his spare time away in his comfy slippers painting miniature stormtroopers.
Learning that he was a miniatures painter and wargamer made my day. He'd be glad, I think, to see that his hobby is still alive in 2022. He'd get a chuckle out of seeing miniatures of himself as Grand Moff Tarkin from Legion, the WotC Star Wars minis game or some other game.
This is absolutely awesome!!! Peter Cushing, a Renaissance man in every sense of the word!!! R.I.P., dear man!!! I pray that you are reunited in Heaven with your dear Helen and your dearest friend Christopher Lee!!! ❤
Not such a genius. He underestimated the Rebels' chances and didn't evacuate the Death Star after he was advised to by his tacticians analyzing the attack.
Os it really sexism if hes implying that smart women go beyond the norm of the expected misogynist 'duties' and 'hobbies'? Personally I see it more as a complement towards women who want to get away from what was considered normal then. But I spose this is all only answered one way or the other if we know Mr. Cushing was a sexist in general.
Peter Cush is my fave ever actor I love the guy wonder who's got this wonderful collection can't believe he's been gone 27 years thank god his movies live on
Couldn’t agree more. A superb actor and a wonderful person. If you like Peter and live in the U.K. you should go to Whitstable. I believe the museum will probably have most of his military items. They had a few soldiers and play-sets on display when I went recently. There is so much to see and do and Peter has left his mark everywhere from the museum to a walk, view, home and even a donated bench from him and his dear wife Helen. His image, illustrations and poems can be found in the Tudor Tea Rooms and there is even a Pub called the Peter Cushing. He was extremely well love and rightly so.
One of us! One of us!! One of us!!! Never felt cooler about my miniature casting, painting, collecting, and tabletop wargaming hobby as I did after watching this video. Notwithstanding Jules Verne's casual sexism.
Who had thought the actor who played Grand Moff Tarkin was an enthusiast of such a cool hobby. I would have enjoyed spending a month with the Cushings, especially Peter. Additionally, it would be an absolute privilege of watching from beside the opposite side of a soundstage to observe his acting style in functioning mode while a scene was being filmed.
Some of his female costars were very impressed by the way he could switch a character "on" for the cameras and then revert to his normal manner the moment they yelled cut. If you look up his line flub on the set of Star Wars, you can see an example. With his later, darker roles, he seemed to spend a lot of time making sure the women were comfortable with whatever sinister interactions the script required.
Did he play Sherlock Holmes in the black and white era ? A man with multifaceted pursuits. Truly remarkable and a gift that some of us carry as God's finest creation.
First color film version (Hound of the Baskervilles), first color tv version (1968, only six surviving eps out of sixteen), and I think possibly first "elderly Holmes" in 1984.
It makes me so nervous to see his battlefield set up on his floor. Those miniatures would have been crushed under foot several times over, in my office.
Me too, but he had the reputation of being fairly agile in his prime, and you can see here how carefully he steps around the miniatures. He and his wife didn't have children, and I never heard that they had four-legged pets either, so the main risk would have been from the film crew.
I have visited the English town of Whitstable on the Kent coast where Cushing lived. They have some of his things at the local museum including from memory some of his toy soldiers.
Interestingly, the concept of the Cleric class was partially modelled after Peter Cushing in his Hammer Horror movie Van Helsing roles. This is why Turn Undead has always been one of the signature abilities.
According to the recent Art & Arcana book (which I got for Christmas, yay me!), Cushing was part of a movement (Miniature Wargamming) that inspired Gary Gygax to create Chainmail (a medieval wargamming system), which (a few years later) with David Arneson, lead directly to D&D. So, perhaps Cushing would have been. But really, you should be thanking him for helping inspire Gygax to create D&D in the first place! :D books.google.ca/books?id=BfNEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq=art+and+arcana+peter+cushing&source=bl&ots=9P9CHfXG36&sig=u0d9pVesuXxWdG5-DJJ2noP6lGo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4y_Gl2-HfAhUE7oMKHT32AUgQ6AEwCXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=art%20and%20arcana%20peter%20cushing&f=false
Had he been so inclined, he would have joined up with the Society Of Ancients, a British wargaming group that played out fantasy battles patterned off the worlds of Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and rules developed for the "Hyborean Campaign" by Tony Bath. However, it seems Mr. Cushing was primarily inclined toward historical wargaming given the extensive library of period uniforms and military tactics he collected to support his hobby. What we see in this film was, no doubt, only part of that collection.
so i love the way you all read very deep into this but i don't think because he was interested in serious military tactics he necessarily feels the same way about goblin armies
My understanding is that he and his wife got rid of their house in London in the late sixties when her health got worse, and he seriously downsized his toy/model collection at the same time. He kept the homemade pieces, but a lot of the commercially made ones were very collectible at the time, so he sold those off. The remainder were mostly sold off in the 90s, after his death, but there's a few for sale (in one lot) on the canterbury auctions website right now (Sept2023) from the estate of his late secretary.
And to all those that thought Warhammer or Battletech brought a new thing, that.... Uh... yeah. They did make things more fun. But so what! (And actually, D&D is kinda an arguably skirmish game. Like Kill Team.) Just love it all!!!
I sincerely hope someone who was both a D&D player and wargamer sat Cushing down in the late 80s, and explained both the basics of tabletop RPGs to him and his influence on the D&D cleric class (originally invented by Gygax to take out an annoying player whose character had gone vampire) and the Ravenloft NPC Van Richten.
>in a snarky british voice< It was that moment when Peter realized that one important part was missing in his army: The Emperor's Wrath MK7 Astartes Chainsaw, to purge the universe from the Xenos and proclaim the Glory of the Golden Throne.
I would love to see his reaction to wargaming today, The scale he plays in doesnt really exist anymore, but in return he can play napoleonics in 6mm all the way up to 28mm scales. Doubt hed be in that tho But who knows what id think of the small bases our minis are attached to today, we certainly saw the rise of the first metal and plastic minis, but did je ever seen the various resin and even 3d printed minis? Its such a marvel that he would for example play the battle of waterloo woth these paper like minis, while today its done woth plastics and metals
I can imagine if he did he would bring his WWII experience into it somehow. “No Peter, people don’t scream when they’re stabbed in the back, they make a gasping sound, I should know…”
You would think he could have afforded to have a room or adjacent building added just for gaming rather than playing on the floor of an already cluttered room.
@@billybatson8657 My guess is they did this for the video. Most likely he has one in another room but they wanted a more continuous shot with no abrupt cuts.
I can imagine Grand Moff Tarkin in his private quarters aboard the Death Star, idling his spare time away in his comfy slippers painting miniature stormtroopers.
^This is canon
"Did you see anything!?"
"No, sir! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!"
"Good!"
@@DarkAngelGuyver More like 'My what?' 'Your highly detailed gaming miniature figurines Lord Tarkin' 'Thats what I thought you said.'
@@T3CH33 Reference whizzed on by, didn't it? lol
Imagine him playing with Count Dooku.
Oh wait, thats real life.
You KNOW he said "You may fire when ready" during at least one session.
Learning that he was a miniatures painter and wargamer made my day. He'd be glad, I think, to see that his hobby is still alive in 2022. He'd get a chuckle out of seeing miniatures of himself as Grand Moff Tarkin from Legion, the WotC Star Wars minis game or some other game.
He might even get a wee chortle out of the number of Heroforge miniatures
There isn't a Tarkin model unfortunately
@@hate2191There's been a mini of him for 20 years. Star Wars Miniature Game, 2004.
Peter Cushing played with toys as an adult, I love him even more for thay
Good to see Grand Moff Tarkin is using his retirement well
Just when you think Peter Cushing cannot become more wonderful.
This is absolutely awesome!!! Peter Cushing, a Renaissance man in every sense of the word!!! R.I.P., dear man!!! I pray that you are reunited in Heaven with your dear Helen and your dearest friend Christopher Lee!!! ❤
Compressed paper, hear that Games Workshop, we no longer need to pay your exorbitant prices: I'm off to stash some bog-roll....
Wow! I never knew Peter Cushing was a fellow miniature wargamer. Very Cool!
I will never question my figure collecting again💛✨!
I have a feeling he was a tactical genius.
I would so game with Tarkin!!!!
Not such a genius. He underestimated the Rebels' chances and didn't evacuate the Death Star after he was advised to by his tacticians analyzing the attack.
@@Dethmeister A exhaust port, 2 meters wide, was his undoing.
@@Stanley-px3bt indeed, an assassin gets assasinated
only fair
still cool charachter
how'd that death star get her-
TARRRRRRKIIIIIIN
“A game for boys...and for that more intelligent sort of girl”! Classic! 😂
Oh those innocently sexist times, lol
That line was surprisingly progressive for the time. At least they mentioned intelligent girls. I'd expect them to fully exclude girls!
Casual sexism, the best kind of sexism.
Os it really sexism if hes implying that smart women go beyond the norm of the expected misogynist 'duties' and 'hobbies'? Personally I see it more as a complement towards women who want to get away from what was considered normal then.
But I spose this is all only answered one way or the other if we know Mr. Cushing was a sexist in general.
@@ComradeCage It's HG Wells who wrote that. And it's pretty ****ing hilarious.
"Take evasive action? In my moment of triumph? I think you overestimate your chances."
Shame he wiffed that invuln save.
Oh my lord imagine playing Dungeons and Dragons at Peter Cushing's house.
Virgins
Imagine playing a Star Wars miniatures attack on the Death Star game with Peter Cushing, with him defending it as Grand Moff Tarkin!
"You may paint,when ready"
Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances
*****MOVES INFANTRY FORWARD****
Oh my God! It was the best 2 minutes and 13 seconds of my life.
I know right?? I see him in a whole new dimension now.
That's what she said.
A magnificent Wargamer, actor and all round good egg
Absolutely fascinating! I'm into board games, and the fact Peter Cushing was into gaming makes me happy 😊!
Peter Cush is my fave ever actor I love the guy wonder who's got this wonderful collection can't believe he's been gone 27 years thank god his movies live on
Couldn’t agree more. A superb actor and a wonderful person. If you like Peter and live in the U.K. you should go to Whitstable. I believe the museum will probably have most of his military items. They had a few soldiers and play-sets on display when I went recently. There is so much to see and do and Peter has left his mark everywhere from the museum to a walk, view, home and even a donated bench from him and his dear wife Helen. His image, illustrations and poems can be found in the Tudor Tea Rooms and there is even a Pub called the Peter Cushing. He was extremely well love and rightly so.
Peter Cushing was amazing 👏 love his acting and old movies.
IF i didnt need ANOTHER reason to love this man i have it now! A fellow wargamer!
Robin Williams and Jonathon Winters used to game together as well; they were discussing it on Johnny Carson back in the 90s
So, one of my all-time favorite actors just happened to share my passion for miniature painting! This made my day !
Glad to see life in 2150 A.D. still looks the same in 1956 A.D ! ! !
One of us! One of us!! One of us!!! Never felt cooler about my miniature casting, painting, collecting, and tabletop wargaming hobby as I did after watching this video. Notwithstanding Jules Verne's casual sexism.
'Casual sexism'..
You just couldn't resist wiggling your buzzing little abdomen of virtue could you.
Peter Cushing was Tarkin even in real life! Rest in peace, Grand-moff...
I would dearly love to own one of those little soldiers Peter Cushing painted. Too cool.
I could certainly see as time goes on, things like this being sold and traded about like paintings
This sort of music is delightful to the ear. I recall that similar music graced the episodes of Tom and Jerry.
Who had thought the actor who played Grand Moff Tarkin was an enthusiast of such a cool hobby.
I would have enjoyed spending a month with the Cushings, especially Peter.
Additionally, it would be an absolute privilege of watching from beside the opposite side of a soundstage to observe his acting style in functioning mode while a scene was being filmed.
Some of his female costars were very impressed by the way he could switch a character "on" for the cameras and then revert to his normal manner the moment they yelled cut. If you look up his line flub on the set of Star Wars, you can see an example. With his later, darker roles, he seemed to spend a lot of time making sure the women were comfortable with whatever sinister interactions the script required.
This makes me so happy👍
Wonderful! What a lovely man he was.
Totally surprising and fascinating side to Peter Cushing. Thank you for posting this.
Toy soldiers are like one of the best hobbies ever !
Mr Tarkin playing with soldiers? awesome
I wonder if George Lucas got the idea to cast him from this video!
That's Grand Mof Tarkin to you.
@@TheCoolCucumber -- Point out my typos one more time and I'll explode your planet. See if I don't.
That is one helluva chair.
Did he play Sherlock Holmes in the black and white era ? A man with multifaceted pursuits. Truly remarkable and a gift that some of us carry as God's finest creation.
First color film version (Hound of the Baskervilles), first color tv version (1968, only six surviving eps out of sixteen), and I think possibly first "elderly Holmes" in 1984.
@@hcu4359 I admire your zest for the old and precious.
It makes me so nervous to see his battlefield set up on his floor. Those miniatures would have been crushed under foot several times over, in my office.
Me too, but he had the reputation of being fairly agile in his prime, and you can see here how carefully he steps around the miniatures. He and his wife didn't have children, and I never heard that they had four-legged pets either, so the main risk would have been from the film crew.
i wonder if the cush ever managed to persuade price or lee to join him in a game. that would have made for a good batrep!
My headcanon is now that they did a LOTR campaign and despite wanting to field the Rohirrim and Gandalf, Lee had to settle for Isengard.
As they were all best friends I can imagine they DID have a few games over a few bottles of wine!
His minis were made from compressed paper? That’s awesome. Also, I wonder if the Model Soldiers Society still exists
An internet search told me that the British Model Soldiers Society and an American equivalent both still exist and maintain web presences.
What ever happened to Cushing's toys soldiers?? How can i see them today?
He sold them all off and bought a T'au army for Warhammer 40k unfortunately.
I was thinking the same thing lol! They must be worth a fortune, I'd buy them in an instant!
I have visited the English town of Whitstable on the Kent coast where Cushing lived. They have some of his things at the local museum including from memory some of his toy soldiers.
His parents threw them all away.
Dracula has them hidden!
We've analyzed the Rebels' attack, sir, and there is a danger. Shall I have your ship standing by?
God Bless this Great Actor! He was the Best! And a Wargamer can't beat that:) RIP Peter 🙏
I love this man!!
well what do you know! not only do I share a birthday with Peter Cushing, but also a hobby.
Does this mean that in theory Peter Cushing would like Dungeons and Dragons???
Perhaps. He strikes me as a Tolkien fan. Probably would have enjoyed GW's SBG.
Interestingly, the concept of the Cleric class was partially modelled after Peter Cushing in his Hammer Horror movie Van Helsing roles. This is why Turn Undead has always been one of the signature abilities.
According to the recent Art & Arcana book (which I got for Christmas, yay me!), Cushing was part of a movement (Miniature Wargamming) that inspired Gary Gygax to create Chainmail (a medieval wargamming system), which (a few years later) with David Arneson, lead directly to D&D. So, perhaps Cushing would have been. But really, you should be thanking him for helping inspire Gygax to create D&D in the first place! :D
books.google.ca/books?id=BfNEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq=art+and+arcana+peter+cushing&source=bl&ots=9P9CHfXG36&sig=u0d9pVesuXxWdG5-DJJ2noP6lGo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4y_Gl2-HfAhUE7oMKHT32AUgQ6AEwCXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=art%20and%20arcana%20peter%20cushing&f=false
Had he been so inclined, he would have joined up with the Society Of Ancients, a British wargaming group that played out fantasy battles patterned off the worlds of Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and rules developed for the "Hyborean Campaign" by Tony Bath. However, it seems Mr. Cushing was primarily inclined toward historical wargaming given the extensive library of period uniforms and military tactics he collected to support his hobby. What we see in this film was, no doubt, only part of that collection.
so i love the way you all read very deep into this but i don't think because he was interested in serious military tactics he necessarily feels the same way about goblin armies
Wow! I’m going to only listen to this music when I paint
You may pay your respects when ready
I simply need a painting cravat.
You mean you don't have one already?! 🧐
i come back to this all the time it's just too damn cute
Grand Moff Tarkin was a tabletop wargamer!! How freaking rad is that??
I would so game with him!!!
Grand moff tarkin was a model soldier collector nice
He only plays Star Wars Legion miniatures skirmish game these days....
...
..
but only has an Empire army.
And Robin Williams collected forgeworld titans and Henry Cavill paints custodees...
He’s just like me… he’s just like me.
Makes me wonder what happened to his collection after he passed. ???
My understanding is that he and his wife got rid of their house in London in the late sixties when her health got worse, and he seriously downsized his toy/model collection at the same time. He kept the homemade pieces, but a lot of the commercially made ones were very collectible at the time, so he sold those off. The remainder were mostly sold off in the 90s, after his death, but there's a few for sale (in one lot) on the canterbury auctions website right now (Sept2023) from the estate of his late secretary.
1:05 An early type of Role Playing Game. I thought that he was going to mention HG Wells!
As a warhammer player now, so much is familiar. The little boxes and being crammed into a space slightly too small lol
Well done, Mr. Cushing...
Brilliant actor what a guy and what a good hobby to.
The important question is does he run Ultramarines or Black Templars? I could see him going either way.
Imperial guard, he has some field experience, you see.
Neither. The Cush was mad for the Waaagh!
I see him as Imperial Guard myself
And to all those that thought Warhammer or Battletech brought a new thing, that.... Uh... yeah.
They did make things more fun.
But so what!
(And actually, D&D is kinda an arguably skirmish game. Like Kill Team.)
Just love it all!!!
I sincerely hope someone who was both a D&D player and wargamer sat Cushing down in the late 80s, and explained both the basics of tabletop RPGs to him and his influence on the D&D cleric class (originally invented by Gygax to take out an annoying player whose character had gone vampire) and the Ravenloft NPC Van Richten.
>in a snarky british voice< It was that moment when Peter realized that one important part was missing in his army: The Emperor's Wrath MK7 Astartes Chainsaw, to purge the universe from the Xenos and proclaim the Glory of the Golden Throne.
Peter cuching un monument du cinéma il éternel et intemporel . La ont voit un document très rares a conservé precieusement .
What happened to Peter's collection when he passed away?
Marvellous.
from HG Well "Little Wars" to George Lucas "Star Wars"
I would love to see his reaction to wargaming today,
The scale he plays in doesnt really exist anymore, but in return he can play napoleonics in 6mm all the way up to 28mm scales. Doubt hed be in that tho
But who knows what id think of the small bases our minis are attached to today, we certainly saw the rise of the first metal and plastic minis, but did je ever seen the various resin and even 3d printed minis?
Its such a marvel that he would for example play the battle of waterloo woth these paper like minis, while today its done woth plastics and metals
I wonder if his good friend Christopher Lee took up the hobby ?
I'd love to see that! :D
I'd love to see a full-length film of them playing this and having very polite arguments over the rules.
I can imagine if he did he would bring his WWII experience into it somehow. “No Peter, people don’t scream when they’re stabbed in the back, they make a gasping sound, I should know…”
he would've played mordian iron guard for sure
haha yes
You would prefer a different target a military target then name the system!
I wonder if he ever ended up building a gaming table...
You would think he could have afforded to have a room or adjacent building added just for gaming rather than playing on the floor of an already cluttered room.
@@billybatson8657 My guess is they did this for the video. Most likely he has one in another room but they wanted a more continuous shot with no abrupt cuts.
Well, with infantry able to move 12", I'd say a table is woefully inadequate.
Never knew that one !!!!
"Most soberly." Heavens forfend they actually had FUN or anything!
Lol I was one of those more intelligent girls. Good heavens can you imagine seeing that in today's world
“ ....or played by more intelligent girls....who like boys‘ games!“....😄😄😂😄😁😉
I think Peter was a boy at heart. and i think its loverly. my late husband was the same.
based
I wonder if Peter would be into Warhammer 40K if he was around today.
I imagine he'd be a Knights player
Shame that he couldn't afford a wargaming table. Those soldiers and scenery are going to get trodden on for sure.
*Deadly*
warhammer in the 50's
If he were alive today, what PC war game would he be playing...?
henry cavill = peter cushing
I bet he has a Custodes Army 😂
peter cushing are the master of henry cavill
He played Warhammer!
warhammer is from 80s, but you see the same soul in henry cavill
@@metalhead170194 may the Emperor watch over him and guide him.
Iam proud to be one of those more intelligent sorts of girls hahahahaha
12 to 150....
Tarkin played Warhammer
And the poor bloke never got to see a figure of his made
Van Helsing would have tots been into WM40k
Peter Cushing is immortalised as Tarkin.
Amen!
Nowadays you get mocked for having a model painting hobby
By fools
I came .. i saw .. i painted
Warhammer 1956
This is just Fire Emblem
Except not brain rotting anime trash.
ITS DR WHO!!!
Caro!
Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable
Ele era ator????
Blood for the Blood God!
LOL and facepalm at H.G. Wells’ casual misogyny at 1:15.
I mean, it was published in 1913. Despite the incredible poorly aged wording, I think the sentiment was progressive for its time.