What might be in these moulds?

Started by Leon, 21 July 2017, 11:04:23 PM

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Leon

Some interesting guesses so far...  ;)

Quote from: Techno on 22 July 2017, 09:26:39 AM
How many of those are master moulds.....and how many are production moulds ?

About 10 master and 74 production, I've not gone through all of them yet though.

Quote from: Techno on 22 July 2017, 09:26:39 AM
Did I have ANYTHING, in any way, to do with any of the figures on the moulds ? (Lots of any's there.) :P

Not that I know of, unless you've been moonlighting for someone else in 10mm...

Quote from: Techno on 22 July 2017, 09:26:39 AM
(Please......NOOOOOOOOOOOO !.....Don't let them be what I think they might be.)

They're probably not but I'm curious as to what you think they might be?!  It's not the old GW Warmaster ranges, I can confirm that!
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Quote from: fsn on 22 July 2017, 10:27:23 AM
'cos I'm interested in the process, could someone tell me how many figures would be in one of those moulds?

Would it be the same figure, or a number of different figures? How do you balance moulds for packs that are a mix of poses?

Leon - could you do us a piccy of the inside after the big reveal?  B)

If you start a separate thread with those questions, I'll run through the moulding process for everyone.
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Quote from: Leon on 22 July 2017, 03:09:16 PM
If you start a separate thread with those questions, I'll run through the moulding process for everyone.

Git 'er done, fsn, this would be totally interesting!
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Norm

Leon - is it something that sits outside of 10mm?

Is it to do with the Sci-Fi side of things?

Is it a naval range?

fred.

Quote from: Leon on 22 July 2017, 03:08:49 PM
It's not the old GW Warmaster ranges, I can confirm that!

Thats a shame, but not too surprising, there were some cracking figures in the WM ranges.

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I'm thinking it could be the 10mm WW2 ranges from Pithead?

The current owner has indicated that he would like to get on with other stuff. Also, a lot of the minor nations are covered, so good for BKC. And there are free French, so the F.F. would be explained.
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Quote from: Leon on 22 July 2017, 03:08:49 PM
About 10 master and 74 production, I've not gone through all of them yet though.

So, a reasonable number of figures then, presumably ...

Quote from: Leon on 22 July 2017, 03:08:49 PM
Not that I know of, unless you've been moonlighting for someone else in 10mm...

... and in 10mm.

Quote from: Leon on 22 July 2017, 03:08:49 PM
They're probably not but I'm curious as to what you think they might be?!  It's not the old GW Warmaster ranges, I can confirm that!

I'd have been gobsmacked (but pleased), if it was.

I did wonder if it might be the "Evil Men" range.
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Too many molds and Pendraken did the casts for those, so they would be Pendraken issue molds.
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Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 July 2017, 05:19:19 PM


I did wonder if it might be the "Evil Men" range.

I was thinking of them as well
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Ithoriel

True ML.

Not enough moulds for Pithead I'd have thought.

Who else is out there? Steve Barber? Polar Fox? Obelisk? Van Dyke? Black Gate?
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22 July 2017, 05:46:16 PM #30 Last Edit: 22 July 2017, 05:48:07 PM by fred.
Obelisk could be an option - but I think there are too many moulds for that, their 10mm (well 12mm) range was only about 15 packs

I'm also a bit confused how the number of master moulds relates to the number of production moulds. But I suppose if you have a pack with 3 command and 2 line, that is only 5 master figures, which would then give you a full production mould. And the next pack could re-use the command, so you might get 3 or 4 production moulds from say 11 master figures, which is 1/3rd of a full mould.
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I can confirm that we've had a winning guess so far in this thread, I'll leave it a bit longer for people to work it out.  There may have been a slight grammatical clue in my original post...

Quote from: Norm on 22 July 2017, 04:07:02 PM
Leon - is it something that sits outside of 10mm?

Is it to do with the Sci-Fi side of things?

Is it a naval range?

It's 10mm, but none of those areas.

Quote from: OldenBUA on 22 July 2017, 05:14:06 PM
I'm thinking it could be the 10mm WW2 ranges from Pithead?

Not Pithead I'm afraid, Phil does some cracking model though so if he ever did want to sell up we'd certainly be interested.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 July 2017, 05:32:06 PM
Who else is out there? Steve Barber? Polar Fox? Obelisk? Van Dyke? Black Gate?

I'd not heard of Polar Fox or Obelisk before, I'll have to go look for some info/pictures about them.  We've done some bases for Black Gate and their recent Kickstarters, so it's not them.  Not Steve Barber either, nice figures though!

Quote from: fred. on 22 July 2017, 05:46:16 PM
I'm also a bit confused how the number of master moulds relates to the number of production moulds.

You can get around 30-35 foot figures in a master mould, so depending on how many different poses per pack you're doing, that's potentially a lot of production moulds.  If your figure packs are 2 poses each then you can get at least 15 codes-worth out of a single master mould.  If packs have 5 poses, then you're getting 6-7 codes out of the master mould.

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Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 July 2017, 05:32:06 PM
True ML.

Not enough moulds for Pithead I'd have thought.

Who else is out there? Steve Barber? Polar Fox? Obelisk? Van Dyke? Black Gate?

Hinchclife and AIM as well
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Leon

Quote from: Fenton on 22 July 2017, 06:09:15 PM
Hinchclife and AIM as well

Do Hinchliffe do 10mm?  I think they might have some of the old Wargames South moulds still?  AIM are in storage as far as I know until Tom Dye brings them back into circulation.
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Fenton

It is  Dave's collection of 8mm home movies!
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

fred.

As we have mentioned pretty much ever 10mm line out there...

Looking at Leon's first post it is now obvious what the answer is. And it would certainly match with the pile of moulds.
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Fenton

Have you done a deal with Eureka for their fantasy ranges?
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

Fenton

Ah I think I see what you mean fred
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

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Quote from: Leon on 22 July 2017, 06:09:09 PM

I'd not heard of Polar Fox or Obelisk before, I'll have to go look for some info/pictures about them. 

Polar Fox do very nice fantasy figures - based in Siberia, but still deliver quickly. A couple of chaps in my gaming group have figures from their Orc & Goblin range, they are very much in the GW style.

Obelisk is now defunct - they did a range of Conquistadors and Aztecs and other Mexican Indians. Fairly small range of figures, very nice sculpts, but large figures certainly 12mm, rather than 10mm. I managed to get some off Tsuba miniatures, but they weren't listing them on their store last time I looked.
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Timecast's 1984 range? ;)
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