MIGHTY SMAUG THE GOLDEN - a limited edition mini that looks good alongside TIAMAT?

There's only 200 of them - the limited edition SMAUG miniature from Games Workshop. It's designed for use with The Hobbit Strategy Battle Game, but of course you can use it in any tabletop game which features large dragons. "This magnificent 42 piece miniature is hand cast using the highest quality resin (the same used by Forge World), and the most advanced techniques to produce a model with extremely fine detail. Every scale, horn and battle-scar has been expertly reproduced to create a beatifically authentic collectors piece."

The miniature is called Mighty Smaug The Golden. Weighing in at 2.4kgs, the height of the miniature from the bottom of the base to the tip of Smaug’s™ wing is 8.4 inches (or 21.4 cm). The base is 9.2 inches (or 23.1 cm) long and 5.4 inches (or 13.3 cm) wide. Apparently the 200-limit is "this side of Christmas" so there might be more next year. I found the info on this website, though I wasn't able to find the price. Also, does anyone know Tiamat's exact dimensions? It would be fun to compare them for size.

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The video below shows off the model in more detail.

[video=youtube;fwlcQBFTqk8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fwlcQBFTqk8[/video]


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[Olgar Shiverstone]

Pretty cool.

I find the design choice on WETA's Smaug interesting. There's always that hard initial decision on dragons: two legs or four? (Or alternately, are the forelegs part of the wings ala birds and bats or separate.) D&D has gone the four-legged route, but other fantasy genres prefer two-legged.

WETA went two legged, which is a fine choice, though Tolkien himself appears to have visualized Smaug as a dragon of the four-legged kind (from the original Hobbit illustration):

Then of course there are the more snake-like dragon designs like Chinese dragons, or the wingless ones like Norse linnorms, but the first two types are what come to mind when I think "dragon."

 

[Argyle King]

How do you go about ordering one?

 

[Morrus]

How do you go about ordering one?

I couldn't work that out either!

 

[Queer Venger]

In D&D terms this figure is not a dragon, its a Wyvern. There is an important anatomical difference.

 

[Morrus]

Or in Tolkein terms, D&D dragons are not dragons, they're... errr....

OK, I shoulda thought ahead on that one.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Or in Tolkien terms, D&D dragons are not dragons, they're... errr....

Bags of hit points with a weakness for shiny objects and magic?

 

[Dioltach]

Or in Tolkein terms, D&D dragons are not dragons, they're... errr....

Something for the DM to amuse himself with at the PCs' expense?

 

[Dioltach]

How do you go about ordering one?

From the Games Workshop site, I presume. That said, the site lists it as "Temporarily out of stock".

 

[Morrus]

Here it is on the U.S. site. $500!

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Smaug