Final Collecting Score of 2021

[TauntaunScout]

Ok. I am done actively pursuing items for the calendar year, having met my goals laid out at New Years. About a week ago, I received in the mail, a matched set of a "4-Up" tooling master and production size resin "squeezing". This would be a Hoth rebel sculpted at 4x the intended size (to capture details better), in wax. The wax was too fragile for tooling though so a rubber mold was made from the waxes and a handful of copies would be made in tougher casting mediums such as Dynacast or Carbalon. This one is green Dynacast. One a scaled down mold was made in steel, several resin copies would be "squeezed out" by hand, before sending the molds overseas for mass production of the figures in metal. The squeezings would be painted by hand and used for box art photography and such.

Some 4-ups were painted too, for approval from Lucasfilm and as a guide to the factories contracted out to paint the production figures. My painted 4-up is a resin fake of a different posed figure from the playset, which I painted myself.

https://imgur.com/aROMNS6

https://imgur.com/FWyQ869

[RyanDarkstar]

Very cool. I enjoy reading about the process of bringing these from concept to finished product.
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Currently playing D&D 5E and painting an unholy amount of miniatures.

[TauntaunScout]