Tuesday, February 11, 2020

OK Back to Work!

Enough playing for now. May and Huzzah are fast approaching and my  Revolutionary War armies are not growing nearly fast enough. Converting each hat in particular is taking too long as well  as sometimes coming out second rate at best.



So I've fixed up a couple of my War of 1812 heads to match slightly larger figures better. While I was at it, since I hate working with metal moulds, I slightly modified a Meisterzinn infantry body to use as British with below the knee gaiters, and threw him in.

Tomorrow I'll see how I did. Hopefully I'll be able to spit out and paint the rest of the figures I need in fairly short order.

8 comments:

  1. Hi Ross- great to get some mold making in and casting as well- is always fun. Cheers. KEV.

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    1. Sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating, but this one worked.

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  2. Fingers are crossed that the mold came out well! I am fascinated by this process - but no matter how many times I read about how to do it, I'm too nervous to actually try it.

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    1. It is handy when you want a quantity of something you can't get but to be honest there are days when I wonder why I didn't stick with 54mm plastic!

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  3. Excellent Ross, I haven't done a new mold in about a year. Need to get cracking on selling some chess sets then I could afford to process new molds.

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    1. There is a certain satisfaction but when this stock of RTV is done I don't thing I'll replace it anytime soon.

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  4. Are you planning a Revolutionary War game at Huzzah this year? What scale figures are you using? If they are 40mm, I can return the favor of the 54's you gave me. I have a bunch of individually mounted 40mm AWI all painted and ready to go (they have been on furlough for the last five years or so).

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    1. Thanks Alan, I appreciate the offer. We are planning a Revolutionary War game using A Gentleman's War and....the Scarlet Pimpernel. Ah.. yeh, the French Revolution. Not sure the 1776 guys would fit in and I sold my collection of 40mm AWI a few years back when the group here gave it up.

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