From resin to tin

[Glen]

Reason for the question? when in France Rafa's figure where liked but not bought as they are resin we where told!!

Then the people in France were missing out and poorer for it. The irony is that Nemrod - a French Company - is marketing their own resin flats. One thing I noticed about Rafa's figures is that they tend to concentrate on Spanish history subjects (understandable) with a smattering of everything else; mostly Napoleonic. No one in the US that I know of carries his pieces. Marketing seems to be the bane of the flat figure hobby...


Glen

[kevind]

Love Rafas work and have many of them but there is something about painting a resin figure, round or flat, excluding busts, that seems less satisfying to me than painting metal.

[Brian]

Reason for the question? when in France Rafa's figure where liked but not bought as they are resin we where told!!

[Nicholas Ball]

personnally, and as a fan of Nuzhdin, I don't  think that you beat the quality of a well engraved slate.

[PJDeluhery]

I'm indifferent to whether a casting is resin or tin. What I do care about is crispness and detail. The tin casting seems to be of lesser quality - but the true test is when you hold it in your hand.

[böckchen]

Obviously - the path is the goal ...

 Resin can be gegosen in an open mold (plaster or silicone).
 - The mold is composed of only one mold section.
 - The contours are well revealed to
 - of gravity! Blowing air not seigen up, thus the surface contours.

 Casting in metal
 - Requires a two-part mold
 - Must casting pressure A casting system using
 (sprue opening, venting channels) can be built.
 - By large mass can also be caused heat holes (cavities).

 I would choose the first variant,
 as these carvings of often have only one page.

[Brian]

Have to agree with Glen, the casting is very poor and just to point out nothing to do with Rafa, I made it

[Glen]

I would reserve final judgement until I could see the "better castings". As it stands, the unpainted casting is marred by soft detail and extensive pitting. There is no way I would pass this on to the buying public - or buy it myself.


As for the resin/tin debate, it doesn't matter to me. Who can tell what it's made of after it's primed and painted?


Glen

[Brian]

Here's two of Rafa's bust cast in tin, would you prefer tin over resin?
Better castings then these of course