I've started casting up 40mm Prince August figures again for my SYW-ish collection . There has been a longish gap since I did any due to running out of Calor gas and giving up on the mounted figure on the right of the photo , This mould was a right swine to cast from with a high rate of miss-casts and I'd given up with only four cast . The drummers on the left are one of the older Prince August moulds and are very 'semi-flat' but gives excellent figures every time and these are to be drummers for a regiment I'd bought in already painted but needs reorganising . Today the gods of toy soldier casting were smiling on me and I also got the other six cavalry done as well , so this will be a squadron of irregular Ulhans , here seen cleaned up and based ready for undercoating .
Hi Tony- glad to see that you have triumphed against all odds to obtain your Ulan castings...yes indeed Hand Casting can be a real nightmare when things are not going to plan- there are a lot of variable to be overcome. Enjoy the painting. KEV.
ReplyDeleteSometimes home-casting works sometimes it doesn't , you've just got to step back and try again next day ! , Tony
DeleteGood to see you back in the swing - a chap could be badly tempted by such fine looking work.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing like painting figures you've cast yourself - bit like home grown veg , Tony
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