Hi folks (especially Arkangel who directed me here). This is my first post here but...I made that eBay Knight!
It's my first attempt at making any kind of cast-able model (apart from some one sided bases) so I can totally appreciate that some of you find it "bland" and/or lacking detail
I've only been back into the hobby, after a 20 year break, since I signed up to eBay in April 2008. Before then, I'd never even heard of resin casting. BTW, I have no pressure or vacuum casting equipment.
The plan is to sell a few of these and use the funds for more materials so that I can get onto the MK.2 version which will have better arms with heavier hydraulics, more variant parts, other weapons and other tweaks and aesthetic changes that have come to me since this was made (including tiny rivets).
I'm still pondering keeping the main parts, eh..."bland" and making up some sort of detail 'kit' to go with it but that might be hard until I find somewhere to cast with poly resins (acrylic resin can be a bit brittle for small parts). I've been sending out a couple of small flat backed skulls and, usually, one each of the three weapons with each model I sell so I have to disagree on the price front. Where else would you get a Knight 7 inches tall with 3 interchangeable ranged weapons (rare earth magnets are great aren't they) for about £60?
The reason I'm using acrylic resin is that I live in a small flat with a one year old and I've no access to a workshop (nudge, nudge, hint, hint, anyone in Edinburgh!) and I'm not about to poison my family for little toy soldiers. It is a pain because if I was casting in a less viscous and generally easier to use poly resin, people would be willing to pay more and it would take half the time to cast them.
Thanks, for all the constructive criticism. I appreciate honesty without cruelty and that seems to be what's going on around here. Cheers, guys