The Edman Collection Artist Profile.

The Edman Collection - 'Legends through the mists of time.'

Artists Profile - Chris Tubb - Professional Sculptor & Designer for The Edman Collection.

Chris Tubbs Chris Tubb worked as part-time free-lance designer from 1976 to 1978. He attended the Camden Institute in North London for a course in sculpting, drawing and painting.

Since 1978 Chris Tubb is responsible for designing and crafting the many products we produce and sell in The Edman Collection. He is also involved with Prince August and Mithril Miniatures and has made over 500 Lord of the Rings miniatures for Mithril alone, and a selection of those are now available on this, The Edman Collection, website (54mm Lord of the Rings figures). All these figures are under license from Tolkien Enterprise and influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien's famous books.

Chris is an expert on the Lord of the Rings stories and shows his extensive knowledge and passion for the inhabinants of Middle-earth in every detail of their clothes, weapons and armour. He has developed a style that is refreshing and realistic, with poses that vary from dynamic 'action' poses where a Haradan is wrestling with a Ranger, to casual reflective poses showing little Hobbits talking, playing, or singing. He carrys this realism to all areas of his work, whether it is from the Napoleonic Wars, Celtic mythology or Classic Golf from the 1920's. Collectors world-wide discuss his contributions to the miniature collecting hobby with great praise and fondness.

MAKING THE FIGURES:
He begins the process by creating some basic line drawings and researching carefully the historical or mythical origins behind each piece. After over 20 years of experience he is able to model in 3D without needing elaborate preliminary sketches or diagrams. Then he makes rough examples to show the form and pose and submits them to Lars Edman, the owner of the Edman Collection, who carefully studies each piece and suggests further alterations and refinement of those initial poses which will then be implemented. Chris Tubb

Chris now has to create in milliput (a green pliable material like soft clay) the final statue. This is subject to further revision for reproduction and needs to be adapted to make it feasible to cast in metal and if it is a large piece (like a Dragon) needs to be easily assembled after casting. Chris sends the final master-figure to the Factory and our experts in the Tool room carefully study it and add any final changes to make a successful cast possible. This might mean some parts needing to be altered to allow for casting access (adding ingates - holes to allow for the pouring of the metal into the mould) or moved to prevent tearing the mould (part of the figures clothing might need to be adjusted to allow the figure to be removed easily after casting).

When all these have been completed the new figure can be produced, cast in metal, assembled and is now ready to be sent to our Painting Department where further instructions from Chris may need to be followed and our library of historical books can be referenced to make sure we produce accurate colour schemes. Finally each piece is packaged and stored, ready for sale.

Our local Irish artists hand paint each piece and make sure that we maintain the highest standards when it comes to giftware.