In keeping with the now-traditional hobby theme of “Orctober”, one of my projects this month was a plastic 54mm orc from the Toys R Us “Mythical Warriors” bucket.
There is only the one pose available, and I have a dozen or more of them available to work with. I don’t intend to do too many of these fantasy figures, but my goal is to try to make each one unique. The easiest quick change seemed to me to be re-arming them.
We had one late warm day a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I would try a very abbreviated casting session. In my collection of molds, I have a weapons sprue for the Britains knight molds originally sold by Castings, and now back in production from Dunken. To my surprise, the first pour into the mold came out nearly perfect, minus a shorted haft on the spear-thing.
The upper left corner of the shield didn’t fully cast, so needed a little greenstuff repair. However, I was glad to be able to put one of these into a (potential) game and therefore have an excuse to justify owning this mold. (For the future, I note that the knight on the right, shaking his fist at the enemy, could be given a weapon from the replacement weaposn sprue as well…something for the spring.)
Earlier this week I was able to base the figures from the Italeri tournament set (i.e. the budget challenge project), the home cast knight, and another figure from the “Mythical Warriors” bucket. I looked over my storage situation recently, and concluded that the 54mm fantasy will probably go beyond the approximately ten spaces currently empy in my 54mm Medieval Boxes. The upper limit would be to add one more 11-liter Really Useful Box, which would have space for 56 40mm square bases. So, we’ll see …
