I'm with Sanackranib - that's a nice piece of work there, Drak. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.
Oh, and as an aside, I'm pretty positive that good ol' Hrothgar would be uncastable - apparently, the casting process applies a lot of heat and pressure to the master fig, which would probably do unpleasant things to all of Hrothgar's plastic parts. On the upside, though, you have a one-of-a-kind fig that's pretty damn cool.
Ahh, these homemade figs please me - both the seeing and the sculpting. My homemade fighter/mage is freshly finished - perhaps I'll fire up the camera tonight and get a picture up. Next on my "in the works" list is a drow assassin (in crazy-ass spider armor), and a dimensional shambler for Call of Cthulhu. Pictures soon to come!
thanks guys. I will see if I can cast this one. I have a mate who used to make duplicates of minatures. he had some trick to doing it that didn't destroy the old mini.. I may have to cut an arm off to do it though.
yeah it did turn out well.. now I just have to finish his buddies (some of the other "norse" characters in the campaign.. but they are just "lite" conversions of plastic GW mini's)
yeah.. that is basically what I will try.. but I will use something else rather than plaster, it tends not to do high enough detail to my memory.. but I could be wrong.. I have a two part epoxy putty (not green stuff) that is used for fixing various household stuff, that may be suitable. we shall see.
You could try using RTV rubber to make the mold (automotive gasket rubber works well) and then gravity cast it. That gets around destroying the plastic bits.