Sculpting Classic Warhammer: Chatting with Gary Morley
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This week we chat to the Miniature Designing legend, Gary Morley. At his time at GW Gary had a hand is sculpting loads of elves, Lord of the Rings, and a tonne more. Gary chats about his time at Games workshop, and lots of other cool stories.
Few little autofocus wiggles at the start, soz.
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Can't get enough of these interviews with living legends. These guys shaped my childhood and they deserve more recognition.
Also: Blood Bowl is my favourite GW game. Gary's sculpts were incredible.
What an absolutely lovely, charming, thoughtful and fun character he is! I wouldn't mind seeing a second interview with Gary down the line!
couldnt agree more...
You guys are building the history of GW that they should be producing but won't.
Thanks Ade, too many talented creators out there that deserve recognition
It’s fantastic to see the people who made our childhoods so awesome getting the limelight
Honestly, when I visited Warhammer World this is what I expected the 'museum' to be. Instead it was just gorgeous models in boxes.
You should look up jordan sorcery. The history is being built there too.
@seanclarke8015 yup where wise are you going to learn about the GW Lloyd Webber collab
Gary is like a magician pulling anecdotes out of nowhere from behind his ear
Bloke sculpted my childhood. unreal, thanks!
The spanish sculptor Gary is talking about at 1:49:00 is Felix Paniagua, the company is Avatars of War, and the model is the Archlich for said company.
Brilliant, thanks for dropping those facts into the comments 👍👍👍
I was hoping someone would have given the info in the comments - thanks!
It suddenly occurred to me how truly valuable these interviews are - this is the oral history of the artists that influenced generations of British kids. Please PLEASE keep doing it. Great work. X
Don’t worry we intend to. 😍👍
This is opening up a whole new level of interest seeing these legends come and talk about the world we grew up and love. Thank you Pat Peach and Geoff
The sculptor mentioned at around the 18.12 mark, Anthony Barton, is still sculpting 15/18mm Napoleonic figures today - he's widely regarded as the pre-eminent guy in the field and he still sculpts them in the way described. If you look up AB Miniatures you'll see his figures in 18mm - his figures are better than the vast majority of 28mm out there. He also does 20mm WWII figures the same way, and they're marvellous. He's getting on a bit now and has some arthritis but as Gary mentions he also sculpts 1/12 figures and equipment, and does some work making reproductions for museums. A very talented guy, indeed.
Danny Boreham on the other hand legged it with all the Battle Honours masters, which he sold on, leaving Tony Barton with sod all. So poor Tony had to start over - AB Miniatures is the result.
I was packing some stuff up for one of the Perry twins once (at GW mail order) and I didn’t know if it was Michael or Alan I needed to put down on the invoice “which one are you mate?” I said “Ah, it’s easy to remember” he said, holding up the stump of his arm “I’m mangled Michael!” - lovely lads!
^ sorry that was in regards to the early chat about Michael’s injury. Loving the vid.
I remember being a shy 16yr old at Games Day 95 and not having the guts to speak to Gary about his job at GW. So this video has been great
As a little boy I thought Gary's sculpt of Nagash was the absolutely most mind blowingly cool model. I was collecting all the undead I could, but I couldnt find it anywhere.... but then I found it second hand as an adult. That model is the epitome of my childhood. Thank you so much for your amazing undead sculpts Gary!
Thanks, It's kinda expensive now on ebay...
These interviews and conversations are pure gold. Meeting the people whose hands and imaginations helped form this hobby we love so much is fantastic! I can't wait to see who we get to meet next week (and next, and next).
You guys have found a fascinating niche here discussing hobby with these legends. Garry has such a great presence and this has been a pleasure to watch/listen to.
Hopefully you continue to do more of these.
I had the pleasure of spending a hour with Gary and a one to one sculpting session. He is awesome, and his greens are amazing, was amazed by how much is lost in the moulding process, his greens have a amazing sense of life that is lost.
That's super interesting, I was also amazed at how detailed the greens were. Be really interesting to follow the process from a scupt to finished model.
@@thepaintingphase absolutely, having seen both his resins and master metals, it’s still amazing at how much can’t be copied, it sounds a bit woo hoo but the greens really have a life impossible to capture. Yet I’ve seen other sculptors who’s greens are made more alive by the moulding process very weird!
Thanks Ben, I think I remember that hour. hope your doing well.
It’s funny listening to Gary talking about a certain Studio manager and knowing exactly who he’s talking about and some of the meetings with them.
🤣 yep, funny how you can tell who it is lol
What a guy.... Thank you, Gary, and thank you to The Painting Phase for this interview. As a LotR collector/hobbiest, I really, really appreciated this 👍
This is great content - possibly a game-changer in interviewing the old-guard. Gary reminds me of an old friend - I can listen to him all day. Thanks for giving him the airtime and the gaps to allow him to articulate his ideas. Great stuff.
These oral histories of GW are amazing. Please keep the conversations coming, it's a wonderful window into the development of the hobby.
I remember Gary visiting Warhammer Wellington, a real highlight for me.
A living legend, cheers for the models Gary!
Forget sculpting faces AT SCALE, Madame Tussauds doesn't always hit the mark.
Hahaha! Very bloody true
Man, Gary Morley is fantastic and first rate unintentional ASMR to boot .
Said it before but this show is absolutely fascinating! Love the guests, love the presenters, love the stories, love the preamble, love the bloody everything about this show! TBH THE best 2+hrs I have spent this week!
You’re a real Gent, Paul. Thanks, Geoff
Just discovered this podcast, binged many episodes. So awesome to hear directly from these creators.
Loving sidetracked long may it continue, what a great chat about my favourite era of GW
Y'all are killing it, it's like every week you answer a question I had since childhood.
So many great sculpts came from this legend. Great to see an interview with the legend.
Absolutely joyous video, loved hearing about Gary's experiences.
What a legend.
Could listen to Gary all day, this was great!
And about the Green Knight, according to WD (210 pg 4) Repanse was the very first model Michael Perry sculpted after losing his right arm, and I'd misremembered, the Green Knight was the very last model he sculpted before his accident according to WD 206 pg 81.
Even crazier that he was banging out lots of great sculpts and his style didn't miss a beat.
Castle Blvd! Used to live there myself, what nostalgia.. I didn't know GW were there at one point.
Nice to see the guy and hear him.. Love his Wood Elves and High Elves especially..
Oh and Nagash!
🙌🙌🙌
Nagash was my first metal mini and i loved it.
Geoff, as someone who lives in Poole, I can tell you the weather is not always pretty good down this way 😅
Gary’s sculpts of high elves got me into the hobby many moons ago. His touch is part of the appeal of the old world and what it it’s still around.
Such a lovely guy. Amazing episode! Could have watched another 2 hours. And it seems like Gary has more than enough stories to fill a couple of more episodes
Doesn't it! So many stories!!
The old school of GW all seem to very cool and a lot of deep thoughts, and into many other things other then GW stuff, which is why they are awesome.
Wow what a show and I can't believe I missed it. A clash of releases and work projects.
Top class and thank you for the Blood Bowl range. Gary thank you for just talking about your career. Amazing 👍
What a lovely chat with a wonderful individual. Such great stories.
Fantastic guest, really enjoyed that one
Just listening to the names of the sculptors that made the models I fell in love with at the start of my hobby journey is so nostalgic.
Absolute legend. Many of my favorite oldschool sculpts. Proper retro Warhammer style.
I'd say you guys are doing some pretty historically significant interviews with these older lads. GW missed the boat on this format lol. Reckon it's your job now.
We’ll gladly take it!
I like that Nagash model as well! The only issue is the size - but that’s because they made adjustments to the scale obviously - but that would have been quite the model to have during the time! Tell me it’s not just because I was born in the 80s that I feel this way!
I have been an avid Blood Bowl player since 1998. I love the game and run leagues. I would rather have a Gary Morley metal than any of the current plastics. Given the choice between a whole team of plastic individuals vs the same 16 metal linemen, I would choose the metal one every time.
What a delightful episode, history lessons in wargaming and Games Workshop and genuinely lovey anecdotes on Gary’s personal experiences!!
Another really great interview, please keep them coming. The Blood Bowl 3rd edition models Gary sculpted are what got me into the hobby and are still some of my favourites. Gary's favourite sculpt was Orion.
Spent a wonderful couple of hours listening to this and painting Nagash. Great episode.
That photomontage from LOTR - 😍
Overall, a fantastic interview and such a lovely time with one of the GOATs of the hobby - thank you!
This was magic, Gary's work is iconic and its imagery is definitely formative to my own. Thanks for making this happen.
Gary really set the style for blood bowl with those sculpts, the 3rd edition Orc team is still my favorite for the sheer character. I will confess I was not a fan of the Nagash, although largely because it was such a departure from Mark Gibbons's art which is probably my favorite piece of Warhammer art, the fact the art followed makes a lot of sense. I have also heard about the resculpt from my retail days via the rumour mill, and apparently the original was nicer so I heard. If Gary ever does feel like a second appearance it would be great to hear his thoughts on training sculptors. I think the Spanish scupltor might be Felix from Avatars of War
I was working at Maidstone store when LotR came out. I remember we'd done really well one year, so they took us out for a meal, and then a tour of head office. While they were showing us around we went past a room with all the windows covered up and weren't allowed in there. It was the room the Twins were in they said
Interviewing these legends is just so insightful and interesting. Great job lads
Excellent... from the Halcyon era. Thanks for the collection of miniatures Gary .. cheers 😃👍
I almost forgot to hit the like button, thanks gary!
What a fantastic video, love Gary's modest character although he's an iconic top GW sculptor. Great to listen to these shows and you feel part of the experience of the guests. Keep them coming!!
Amazing episode lads. Absolute chills hearing about Christopher Lee speaking in elvish
Cracking interview, great guest, well done. I've still got my metal orc blood bowl team; they are the only models I have left from when I was a kid. What a fantastic sculptor Gary Morley is. Please have him on again.
What a great episode. I remember meeting Gary and a lot of the design studio at Games Days in the early and mid 90s. Great memories. These shows are like all the encyclopedic extras and behind the scenes from our fav films... keep it going. Amazing stuff.
Is this the first Video where you have called the podcast "sidetracked"? I love it. That needs to be in the title of the videos from now on!
I love the content guys, keep bringing me British army stories, Peach-isms and biscuits.
I agree with Gary, the positives of crediting the artists out weighs the negative.
I thought I was the only one who had put Boromir's head on a 95th Rifleman 😂 Someone have a word with Warlord Games!
I loved high elves since I first saw warhammer, amazing to think this man sculpted most of them!
Yep so much nostalgia in this interview for me - peachy
I still have a box of mostly unpainted undead blood bowl figures that Gary Morley designed and signed for me at Games Day '93. The autograph has faded now and can only really be seen if you hold the box at an angle so the light catches it.
Such a great episode again gents. Getting to see all these famous names in the flesh is wonderful, especially being an old stager who remembers them all. The cynical part of me wonders if keeping sculptors and artists anonymous is more about the prevention of poaching as much as the protection of safety? As an addendum of the Peachy Sharpe Bingo idea - every time he mentions it, he has to dress up like a Rifleman and paint a Napoleonic model as one of the characters. All joking aside though I'd love to see him paint IG as Sharpe's Rifles
Favourite episode of Sidetracked so far. Gary was a great guest
Could listen to Gary tell stories all day. Great interview, great fella, amazingly chill voice
I love the way he punned in the “painting phase” absolute genius!!!
But charming guy and great to watch i could watch another one with him!!
Gary and Bob are the type of people the world needs to encourage and inspire the next generation to put down the games console and use there imagination and creativity!!
Thus showing another good reason for crediting the sculptors/artists for there work!!
I think Kruella was probably modeled after the main character from the 80's cartoon movie "Heavy Metal"
Another great guest. Giving us what we need as well as what we want.
Love these episodes !! The old guard have so much history and a wealth of knowledge. They really paved the way for what we love about warhammer today
Great interview, love hearing the history of old GW with all these amazing artists. Speaking of which it would be ace to get Sorastro on some time! His Legion tutorials helped get me into mini painting
Another lovely interview!
This was a fantastic interview. To hear from the sculptor of some of my all time favourite models was brilliant. Have Gary on again!
Gary looked shy at first but what a guy!
Lovely interview! I adored Gary's human 2nd edition Blood Bowl figures SO MUCH! Especially the injured players.6
Great episode!!!
Really enjoyed this episode. Big fan of Gary and great to hear all his stories
Great episode, Gary is such a charming guy to listen to. Always nice to get these behind the scenes deep dives into hobby history.
You guys are doing incredible and wonderful things! This was a pleasure to watch and to listen, Gary is a legend! BTW being a miniature nerd as I am, i instantly recognised the "updated" version of Nagash, Gary mentioned sculpti ng for an ex gw employee. The company is called Avatars of War, the ex employee is Felix Panigua and the model is called "Archlich"
Amazing thanks Pietro for clearing that up 🤣👍
Regarding the facial issue ;-) you discussed: I think the work is outstanding especially in the LotR-range
22:00 I found alternative armies last year. They have a real nice selection of models, not really one for the 12-15mm scale personally but a big fan of what they do.
Il be honest Il wasn’t particularly aware of the Gary before this video, thank you for bringing him on
I remember going to Games Day in the late 90s (might have been early 00s) and one of the key things I wanted to do was meet Chris Fitzpatrick because of the Dark Elf range in WHFB, and was so thrilled to say hi and let him know how much I loved the range. Its sad that's not something easily done now, as its hard to track who has done what.
Yeah, that’s something I always loved doing, but now other than asking buds at head office (which not everyone can do) I have zero idea who does what
What a great guest, lovely storytelling!
Loving the history of GW episodes
10 months late but Orion 😂, great vid, loved watching it. What a great guy.
Never had a problem with Nagash. Undead were my army and when I later sold them off, Nagash was one of the few I kept.
Not sure if you'll read this Mr Morley, but you sculpted some of the dark elves that I painted as a younger boy, almost 25 years ago, and what got me involved in miniatures. Thank you for all your wonderful work. Be well :)
I suspect he has Pete, I’m in a very similar boat - peachy
Yep, just picked your message up. thanks, hope your interest in the hobby is still on the '6'
I'm with Peachy - the OG Nagash might be goofy, but I loved it then, and have a lot of love for it now.
The story of the skull face is a laugh, but I really never looked twice at it then.
I also can't believe people had issues with Lord of the Rings?
I was/am always amazed that the models captured the likeness of the actors.
How picky are people?
Apparently very picky lol
Its amazing to me how much of my personal GW history is tied to Gary's sculpts.
I had an Undead army (never had Nagash either), and Blood Bowl was my mainline game as a kid, and Can Saar was my OG Necromunda gang, and then Lord of the Rings. Although I wasn't quite as across who sculpted what at the time.
So thanks, Gary, for my childhood. :)
The Green Knight was seriously the first model he created after having his arm blown off??? Wow, that's astounding.
Hearing that your undead models weren't considered that great..... XD They are some of my favorite models.
You guys are the best mini videos on the tubes! love to watch you and have you on repeat on the background whilst i paint!
Amazing interview, well done lads!
Cheers!
Really enjoyed this. Thanks guy's
Sure the Nagash model doesn't hold up very well compared to today's standard but then again few of the minis from that era do. And if you're into Oldhammer he fits right in, so Nagash is in great company :)
Mordhiem and Battlefleet Gothic, the two best games gw ever made “You can’t change my mind” 😅
Absolutely amazing guys, yet again! I really look forward to these chats. Gary was a wonderful guest and I'm apparently one of the odd old hobbyists that actually liked Nagash. My mind was blown hearing he did all of Blood Bowl, never knew that!
Can't wait for the next show, carry on the wonderful work and take care :)
Thank you, it’s been a great privilege having him in, glad you enjoyed it
Another amazing episode! love hearing these stories from the olden days! Thank you, sirs!
Great podcast! One to listen to again and again
What a great interview. Just a fun and relaxed chat - brilliant stuff
Please keep up bringing these fabulous artists and talented individuals from the hobby. It is golden.
lads if you ever do come down to NZ, we will take care of you. ive got a gaming table at my place as well :)
Aww that’s incredibly kind of you 😍