ChunkyZergling
Super Freak
Today I ate lunch with an excellent model painter and he taught me many things about statues I did not know. He taught me that when someone pays a sculptor to sculpt for a statue for them this is called a commission (I knew this). Subsequent castings are called garage model kits (that I did not know).
I learned (lol) that after about 30 castings a mold is pretty badly damaged. Many of these guys from the Philippines (where a lot of good garage model kits come from) use molds for many more. A lot of the time the piece you get sucks. It can have nicks, bumps, bulges, sometimes holes, cracks, and even complete breaks.
SideShow gets around this by filling the original mold with resin. With the resin casting they make another mold, and so on until they can make the said ES.
I met with him today because he had finished repainting a Logan garage model kit of mine from the Philippines (btw - it came with an atrocious paint job but luckily the casting was decent).
So, I've made a decision to stop buying garage model kits because of bad castings and also because they usually sell for a minimum of $600 a piece. Only SideShow for me from now on.
However I have to say some of the garage model kits from the Philippines are simply stunning. However they can never hold a candle to the fine details of good SideShow piece like, say, the Punisher comiquette. But in one respect they are better is they usually have cooler and more dramatic poses than SideShow pieces, that's why I bought them. The usual SideShow pose is some guy with one foot up on a rock or something.
I learned (lol) that after about 30 castings a mold is pretty badly damaged. Many of these guys from the Philippines (where a lot of good garage model kits come from) use molds for many more. A lot of the time the piece you get sucks. It can have nicks, bumps, bulges, sometimes holes, cracks, and even complete breaks.
SideShow gets around this by filling the original mold with resin. With the resin casting they make another mold, and so on until they can make the said ES.
I met with him today because he had finished repainting a Logan garage model kit of mine from the Philippines (btw - it came with an atrocious paint job but luckily the casting was decent).
So, I've made a decision to stop buying garage model kits because of bad castings and also because they usually sell for a minimum of $600 a piece. Only SideShow for me from now on.
However I have to say some of the garage model kits from the Philippines are simply stunning. However they can never hold a candle to the fine details of good SideShow piece like, say, the Punisher comiquette. But in one respect they are better is they usually have cooler and more dramatic poses than SideShow pieces, that's why I bought them. The usual SideShow pose is some guy with one foot up on a rock or something.
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