See what I mean about the piggy-face! He's
also a chunky sculpt, obviously lots of pies on the last ship they caught . . .
and he ate them, all! But non-the-less, a lovely, warm colour palate on a
cheerful looking chap.
No marking but he was one of these two-quid
jobs from a charity shop a few months back so I'm not complaining and he's big;
a basic 120mm without the full height of the hat, berserker is taking a chance,
my experience of the post-war British bayonet is that it will struggle to dent
that boot and only further annoy an already irate-looking pirate!
Imagine Brain Blessed's voice . . . "The little man's doing WHAAAT?"
I also bought another of those Penn-Plax resins (hell cometh-fast upon
me!) for the pirate and that odd 'diving-bear' (who came from another charity
shop a week later, and still needs ID'ing as to likely character) to fight
over.
Having failed to show you better images of
the Penn-Plax Easter Island heads
earlier - this is constructed in the same way as the larger head (the smaller
head was a solid), and it looks to be the same basic technique as a hollow-cast
soldier, but with a larger exit-hole; pour, swill-round and tip out the excess.
But I suspect there's more to it, for a
thicker material which will flow more turgidly over a wider 'front' and take a
while to start solidifying (molten-lead sets almost immediately), there may be
some mechanical/rotary device involved and the exit 'hole' is obviously a mess
which - after setting - needs removing with a saw or grinder.
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