Ian Miller/Osmoticmeld - The Hounds of Hell

Fimm McCool said:
Don't like the way it (doesn't) take paint, or the feel, or the way you can't do anything to straighten out bent bits.
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Re the Siocast I've got the Heresy Miniatures Ghouls in both metal and Siocast and I've not found any issues with painting the Siocast so far - just primed with airbrush and Vallejo primers so nothing crazy. What kind of issues have you run into? To be fair the Siocast ones are very nicely detailed, but no more so than the metal ones. Here are two side by side since they are on my desk right now.
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Luckily I've not got any bent weapons or anything, but I can see with the siocast plastic being softer than normal hard casting resin that might well be an issue. With some of the PVC type board game type miniatures getting bends out is nigh on impossible, I guess maybe it's a similar woe. Getting rid of mold lines on those sorts of models is also very difficult. Zealot have a Siocast machine if you want to see if they have any advice, they have always been very friendly and helpful when I've contacted them in the past and they might have picked up some secrets now!

The first Ian Miller KS was in metal (bar the odd large miniature cast in resin), so I'm surprised this one isn't. I certainly prefer the heft of metal models in my hand, but to be honest I do prefer prep work on (hard) resin and plastic - which is probably more to do with the matte quality of the materials enabling you to see properly what you are doing! There have been times when I've primed a metal model and then gone back in with the file to get rid of a mold line I just totally missed. I guess since most of my models then sit on shelves I don't think much about what they are made of - I expect if I were pushing them around the table lots I might prefer the tactical advantage having lumps of heavy metal to hurl at your opponent provides ;)

Speaking of mold lines you can see a large on on one of the Ghoul's faces, whichI either missed or couldn't face (no pun) tackling at the time. Missed I expect looking at the actual model now where I just don't think I saw it *gaaahhhh*
 
Am seriously excited about this latest KS! :)
Will weight the bases to give them a bit more heft. Am really not fixated on lead minis, plastics and resins have been in my collection long enough to not be dominated by a specific format (but will never buy any Finecast ever again (at least without a good inspection first!!)). ;)
 
I got one fine cast mini, the Nurgle Daemon Prince, his creepy long fingers were just tiny nubs, half of one foot was missing and the air bubbles... Omg the air bubbles.

On the plus side, my sculpting got better working on that mess.
 
Fimm McCool said:
It often seems that way because the resin is typically grey and not as shiny as the metal. Take a silicone mould of a metal miniature and cast it in resin, it will look much crisper even though it is obviously the same. If a metal model comes out less crisp likely the metal's not hot enough, they haven't used something like chalk or carbon powder to draw the flow into the details or they're not spinning it fast enough.
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Maybe, though the resin I used cured white and I had moulds for both resin casting and metal casting from the same greens.
Horses for courses though?
 
MichaelStockin said:
Maybe, though the resin I used cured white and I had moulds for both resin casting and metal casting from the same greens.
Horses for courses though?
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Most polyurethane resin cures white, but it's common practice to add some black pigment as grey makes it easier on the eye to see how good the casting is. Spincast resin? Yuck, good reason not to do that!
 
I know i'm not an expert or anything, far from it.. but.. Spincasting Resin? kinda sounds... stupid.. I know of 2 main types of Resin, the Slow cure or the fast cure.. Neither seams to be that good for spincasting.. and surely it wouldn't deal with the bubbles that well.. metal pours and fills well without too much issue with bubbles if you got a good chalk down.. but Resin? gonna be tricky like that.. isn't that one reason why you design resin moulds with gravity feeding and holes for the bubbles to go out more.. surely the channels for metal spincasting aren't the same way and method as resin so.. not sure..
 
Siocast is injection moulded resin. Spincasting resin was a thing in the 90s as people used to spinning lead switched material but not process. It's dumb because you have to spin for so much longer. Vaccuum casting much better.
 
I’m currently putting together some of the earlier metal sculpts in this series, and I’ll tell you, I am struggling with affixing some of these ultra thin metal pieces. So I’ll stay optimistic for the siocast experience.

The models are indeed beautiful


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That was one of the reasons the Heresy Ghouls were re-mastered for Siocast as they are quite delicate limb wise and the hope was the plastic would be more forgiving. When I first started assembling my metal ones I was pinning arms and so forth with very small pins, but that was far too fiddly so I just superglued them in the end and so far so good, but they have not had any rough handling.
 
Orjetax said:
I’m currently putting together some of the earlier metal sculpts in this series, and I’ll tell you, I am struggling with affixing some of these ultra thin metal pieces. So I’ll stay optimistic for the siocast experience.

The models are indeed beautiful


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That's why single-part metal is king. Clever posing, not superglue fingers!
 
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