The Dark Art of Press-Moulding

[area23]

Another Press-Moulding experiment I'm doing, trying to create a small horde of spacefaring ratmen!


Read more here:
http://area-23.blogspot.it/2013/03/the-dark-art-of-press-moulding.html

[Blue in vt]

Very cool indeed!  They look great...perhaps a little roughing up of the arms with a needle would give it a hairy texture?

Blue

[Daeothar]

Brilliant idea and repurposing of old plastic parts (the gretchin) and newer ones (skaven heads).

Inspirational!

[Mason]

Brilliant idea and repurposing of old plastic parts (the gretchin) and newer ones (skaven heads).

Inspirational!

...and genius!
 

[Dewbakuk]

Brilliant idea and repurposing of old plastic parts (the gretchin) and newer ones (skaven heads).

Inspirational!

Those Skaven heads are much older than those Gretchin

[Daeothar]

That's what I thought originally, but I've never really been into the ratmen before and the detail looks pretty good on those heads.

Advanced Hero Quest I suppose?

[Dewbakuk]

That's what I thought originally, but I've never really been into the ratmen before and the detail looks pretty good on those heads.

Advanced Hero Quest I suppose?

They come from a box called Warhammer Fantasy Regiments, I think I still have some of those figures around somewhere. You got 10 sprues with 6 figures on each, one of each of the races, so could make a unit of 10, but for six different armies (from the 80's but even then you can see the sales marketing!) 
Dwarf, Wood Elf, Goblin, Orc, Skaven and Dark Elf. Apparently they got reboxed into smaller boxes with less figures in the early nineties.

[area23]

Yes, those are the ones.
They are actually pretty good models, not just nostalgia here. Some of the 1990's plastics were really much worse. Besides, these have the classic Skaven heads that I really like, not the later cartoony style.

thanks all,

[Daeothar]

They come from a box called Warhammer Fantasy Regiments

Totally forgot, but I actually have a bunch of those! 

But mine are cast in white and not the darker grey the heads in the conversion seem to be. I agree that they're pretty nice sculpts. Very well detailed and that's why I thought they were newer.

I found this conversion to be so cool, I went ahead and got me 10 Gretchin for GBP 2,95 off Ebay just now, to give it a whirl myself. Hey; I said your idea was inspiring...

+++EDIT+++ Darn it; I only just now clicked on the link to your blog and read that A) You also borrowed the idea, B) You recast the heads and therefore they're grey and C) That'll teach me to be a lazy reader...

[dijit]

Could the mould stand going in an oven at roughly 110C, if you were going to use sculpy/fimo?

[area23]

+++EDIT+++ Darn it; I only just now clicked on the link to your blog and read that A) You also borrowed the idea, B) You recast the heads and therefore they're grey and C) That'll teach me to be a lazy reader...

 

[area23]

Could the mould stand going in an oven at roughly 110C, if you were going to use sculpy/fimo?

Just did a quick google search, and apparently Quick Sil can be used for lost wax method (i.e. melting out a wax original in an oven) and even pewter castings. Another source says max. 900 Fahrenheit, which makes about 480°C. if I'm correct. didn't know that either!! Lots of possibilities!