From the dusty reaches of yesteryear

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Project Entry by horati0nosebl0wer

A damsel in distress

August 25, 2022

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Those layers be thicc

I found the druid with puma. As you can see she was in a bad state with dreaded enamel. There’s an old joke I heard from my grognard buddies that a man goes to a con and stands admiring a figure displayed in the competition case. He finds himself standing with the painter next to him and applauds what kind of detail and development there appears to have been put into the layering of paint he laid down to show such character for an ogre. The painter smiles slightly and comments “Thanks, I started with a halfling”.

Here I’ve stripped away the paint with a couple days bathing in Simple Green. I went back with a brass wire brush and dental pick to pull off what I could without destroying detail. Lead is soft and the one thing anyone of an age knows is “smoosh nose syndrome”. Dropped lead figures are well known to suffer this and there is no chance at rhinoplasty.

Just the right angle

For the final act we see our heroine saved from the peril of a poor paint job and reborn to be seen with greater respect for the work done by the sculptor. One noteworthy bit of info is the amount of negative space on the model. It was surprising to find the undercutting beneath the arms resting on the cat and between the pair. The actual separation between the druid’s legs and the torso of the puma is surprising given the likely difficulty of the cast instead of creating a solid piece.