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are you getting cheeky on me here dave?... *shakes head*

and i am not that good when it comes to numbers... somehow i am better with soft skills than hard skills...

Sorry about the lack of recent updates. Been dealing with some hefty RL stuff. (My father was diagnosed about a month ago with stage IV Pancreatic cancer) I've been playing backup adult to keep tabs on him so my mother can get some work done as well as take care of herself...


Anyhoo on to the good stuff.

Got some Molds poured (waiting on the RTV to cure before I cast anything... but here are the in progress pics of what these molds will be of.

Remind me, Galorn, when you're ready to put a website/storefornt online.

Wow! That's one helluva production Line! The texture on the sandbags is great! What did you use?

dsteingass wrote:Wow! That's one helluva production Line! The texture on the sandbags is great! What did you use?

The knurled grip of an exacto knife/gw type sculpting tool.

Just pulled the second pour of bases from the small (standard GW infantry) size bases, and some of the 40mm sized (termie) bases they came out really well...

Those are going to look excellent!

hey galorn... i hoe everything turns up good in the end with your family.... this is most grave news...


on the lighter issue... the bases look very good...

Viktor von Domm wrote:hey galorn... i hoe everything turns up good in the end with your family.... this is most grave news...


on the lighter issue... the bases look very good...

Thanks Vik.


Got some pics of the first pulls from the completed base molds...

HW size bases (pre mould pour)


First cast of the HW bases


Infantry bases (20mm and 40mm)


Moulds

Those look Fantastic Galorn!!

dsteingass wrote:Those look Fantastic Galorn!!

Thanks.

i can only second daves statement in awe galorn!!!

Ive put the last 60mm round and one of the valk size base in to mold.


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Pics of the First casts of the two most recent molds... Also I have run out of resin so I need to restock... I'l in all probability be doing that tomorrow...

Valk/DK 1 and 60mm 3


All the bases that I've cast up (successfully enough to be usable) and Valk/DK 2

Well I've just used the last of my "old" stok of RTV sillycone so I'll be picking up more ... once I get paid... The last base of the FB gloria set is in RTV molding... I'll get Pics of the result once I get home from work tomorrow.

THe new Supply run of things will take place on THurs as that is Pay day...

I got more masters for ya Galorn!

dsteingass wrote:I got more masters for ya Galorn!

Woot. I'll send the next Load of stuff out once the new stuff arrives (gives me time to cast up stuff to send... heh, also restock my RTV supply.

No hurry at all!

dsteingass wrote:No hurry at all!

Heh. Nope no hurry just anticipation. Lol.

Hey, do you think this window is castable?

dsteingass wrote:Hey, do you think this window is castable?

Yes. Probably very fiddly as a 1 piece, but definitely doable as a 2piece.

The window bit is not glued in- perhaps it can be cast separately as an insert?

I was also thinking of some sort of buttresses similar in design to these to hide the joins between panels?



Because the Window bit is rare, and OOP... i'd like to have it back if at all possible, the rest of the masters are yours as always

dsteingass wrote:The window bit is not glued in- perhaps it can be cast separately as an insert?

I was also thinking of some sort of buttresses similar in design to these to hide the joins between panels?



Because the Window bit is rare, and OOP... i'd like to have it back if at all possible, the rest of the masters are yours as always

I'll see what I can do. The buttresses look promising actually...

The awesome that is happening here cannot be overstated.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:The awesome that is happening here cannot be overstated.

Why thank you.

On to the promised Pics

Just restocked on RTV sillycone...

oh... that base looks very good... you need to paint that asap... just a very quick paintjob... we need to see that with all details...

Galorn wrote:Just restocked on RTV sillycone...

..And I'll be shipping you something to do with that fresh batch soon!
..On that DVD i watched, the guy built a vacuum chamber to suck all the air out of the batch..It's wicked..it bubbles, and rises, then slowly settles back down when all the air is out.

dsteingass wrote:

Galorn wrote:Just restocked on RTV sillycone...

..And I'll be shipping you something to do with that fresh batch soon!
..On that DVD i watched, the guy built a vacuum chamber to suck all the air out of the batch..It's wicked..it bubbles, and rises, then slowly settles back down when all the air is out.

ah Degassing... I havent done that yet... (no $ for vac chamber) and I use an Ultra thin (til it cures anyway) RTV sillicone (mold star 30) so no real need to do that for what I'm casting...

Awesome, also am waiting on a box from Skalk.

De-gassing by pressure or by vibration. Both good techniques. Vibration is much, much cheaper, but requires more effort. Pressure chamber is best for production runs.

In the DVD, he was using a homemade vacuum chamber, it appeared to be powered by a shop-vac, it was pretty cool, he also had a homemade vacu-former that was pretty sweet!


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..oh and he had a paint room where one whole wall appeared to be a big furnace filter...I drooled a bit.

What DVD is this