I think, Pendraken's LoA needs remodelling up to standards of WSS, or preferably - AWI.

Funny you should say that....

 

I totally agree. I would like this range but ...

Any news on the re-modelling? i would be very interested

Chad

I think Clib's working on the dollies at the moment.

Confirmed.

...which is going to make this range a must-buy then 

Lets see how they turn out first!

Yup I would be interested in this range...always fancied doing the Battle of the Boyne on a huge scale

Quote from: Fenton on 20 April 2010, 11:33:50 PM
Yup I would be interested in this range...always fancied doing the Battle of the Boyne on a huge scale

You can take the man out of Ulster, but you can't take...


First batch of dollies in transit to Pendraken HQ

Quote from: clibinarium on 05 May 2010, 04:29:55 PM
You can take the man out of Ulster, but you can't take...


First batch of dollies in transit to Pendraken HQ

Woohoo!  Excellent news, I'll keep an eye out for them!

Excellent - good news 

Oh Good! 

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10129

 
I knew it.
When will you release first packs, and when could we see any photos of figures.

BTW
It would be great to know full list of items to be released. Even without detailed schedule.
It would help with planning our works.

Quote from: maciek on 10 May 2010, 06:58:45 PM

I knew it.
When will you release first packs, and when could we see any photos of figures.

BTW
It would be great to know full list of items to be released. Even without detailed schedule.
It would help with planning our works.

No release dates yet.  Clib has sent us the dollies, which we have moulded up and will send back to him.  Then he will start on the master figures.

...and what is the dolly,
and explain me, please the process of making figures.

No dates and no lists; neither have been made up yet! But at the least everything in the current list will be replaced, and probably more added. Infantry will be the first release, cavalry dollies are still being worked upon.

A dolly is simply a partially sculpted figure, usually the body without arms. These are cast up and the sculptor then adds hats arms weapons etc . Without them I would not be able to put variant figures in my work, as it would take too long to sculpt figures from scratch each time. Also for weapons and hats its great to have standardisation across a range. Complex items like muskets and especially drums are a nightmare to do , so doing them only once is a plus!
Here's a pic of one of the first AWI packs, its easier to see the process at work as I was still using grennstuff back then;


Its a process that adds time and cost to a project, but I feel the results are worth it. I am sure I have tried Dave's patience in the past with fiddly little bits a pieces, and early on I had some hare-brained ideas; I sent him semi-shaped blobs of putty to cast, the idea being I could file the metal down to get stuff like swords. It did work but was so impractical it was abandoned swiftly. Dave was too polite not to humour me.

You can see this in lots of pre-release figures in various scale. I didn't realise this was possible until I saw the "workbench" section of the perries website.

Thanks.
Does it mean that, on the photo above, muskets were cast separately and are glued to the figures ?

On these particular figures the muskets and left arm were cast as part of the dollies, as they would all be in the same position, same goes for the marching figures. The firing figures, since they would need muskets in different poistions had the muskets added later.