Quote: (GlynG @ Oct. 27 2009, 13:56 )
It's a pity the original greens couldn't have been cast in resin really, it would have been a much better medium for such lovely sculpts. It's great that these exist for people but I have the feeling I'm going to distinctly prefer the detail and proportions of the original sculpts.
Were the original greens destroyed in the process? I thought E&C had said the originals were safe but you were working from a copy of the original?
Have no fear Glyn
The additions are very subtle for the most part, and the natural shrinkage caused by the mastering and casting means that you end up with something fairly close to the originals. For comparison the legs on some of those troops were as thin as the halbeards on the FW Grey Knights, or the lascannons on the FW Leman Russ tanks. (ie. pure 0.3mm brass wire). While probably castable in resin, such models would have been even more fragile than the Tau and Grey Knights.
The beefing up has been done so that the models look the same in frontal view but the legs become slightly bigger from the side view. You'll notice that this is how many Epic minis are made too, and for the exact same reasons. I guess you could call it a bit of cheating sine it means that a model won't be 100% correct when viewed from all angles (As the originals indeed were!). As always it is a matter of striking a balance between sexy looks and making a product that doesn't break the second someone puts a brush to it...let alone move them about on a gaming table. ÂÂ
Unfortunately the vulcanization process is very rough on greens so I don't think any of them survived the second casting attempt. (Not all survived the first time around).
, the original green wouldn't cast, in fact it died a horrible death, so we've had to redo the models since they were originally conceived. Which is why it has taken so long. However, now we actually have held the production models in our hands and have them building up in huge piles around us so don't have to worry about any more 'incidents' (touch wood).
I'm betting we'll see those before Thanksgiving ... But that's a Yank holiday ... 
So most of you limeys don't know when that is ... 
