R is for Resin Rascal Raiders

Apart from the fact that he has a slightly piggy face, I rather like this chap, and it is further evidence of the slide into resin hell . . . Mr Evans has sent me several more as well; I don't rate the stuff but it's piling-up!!

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.