The Headless Child?

[fsn]

Just painting some Napoleonic civilians.



I have a question. What is going on with the woman on the right? I see in front of her a pair of legs and a body and a bow tie ... and no head.

Is this a "once seen ... can't unsee" or is this woman really toting around the decapitated body of what is presumably her offspring?

Thank you.   

[Leon]

That's an odd one, I'll need to check the mould there!  When you're cleaning up the figures for production moulds it's weirdly easy to miss the big things as you're looking for small stuff.  In the past I've missed a completely AWOL backpack on a figure because I was looking for fingers and sword hilts...

[fsn]

Oh! Really not the answer I expected. 

I just assumed I was looking at it wrong.


C'mon, I can't be the first one to have painted some Napoleonic Civvies?

[Big Insect]

It will be like those miss-stamped coins - worth a fortune as Leon will have corrected the error & all the others will come out with a smiling head on them.

[Leon]

We've checked the mould on this and it looks like just a miscast, so you've got a limited edition headless child there...!  I'll get a couple of replacements out to you asap.

[DecemDave]

Might not be such a limited edition!  My first problem was finding which lead pile-let I had stored them in.  [KGL - its obvious innit!!?]

I think the problem is that the area between the ladies hands could be interpreted {to my ageing eyes anyway} as a hollowed out neck. hence headless.  And even a quick ink daub left me none the wiser.  But I think you could also imagine a flat cap over a squat little face. With her hands holding him by the ears.

Do we know what the sculptor intended?

Maybe a special "headless children" category in the painting competition and we will see what the expert painters make of it?   

[fsn]

We've checked the mould on this and it looks like just a miscast, so you've got a limited edition headless child there...!  I'll get a couple of replacements out to you asap.

No problem. No need. Thank you anyway.

[DecemDave]

Now black primed and light grey drybushed.

Definitely headless   



Perhaps the code should move to the fantasy section?

[Leon]

I'll do some more digging and find out what's happened here.  I wonder if something was stuck in the mould and it's worked it's way out since these were purchased?

[Gwydion]

Great for a Dickensian* rpg -
'Now then young Cratchitt, that's what'll happen to you if you ask for a pay rise!'

*(or maybe Sunakian come to think of it )

[fsn]

Perhaps the code should move to the fantasy section?

Techno's Night Terrors?

[Techno 3]

OI !!     

[flamingpig0]

I'll do some more digging and find out what's happened here.  I wonder if something was stuck in the mould and it's worked it's way out since these were purchased?

I thought it was part of the new sci-fi range. It had been genetically engineered to fit up chimneys

[Leon]

The casting guys have checked this one better today and it's a dodgy mould unfortunately.  The kid's head must have got lodged in the master mould and all of the master castings were headless.  I'll need to find the master mould, get the head out and spin up some replacements for a new production mould.

[fsn]

Sorry Leon.