tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5233607453750102371.post5602687704160477664..comments2022-11-22T04:31:24.705-05:00Comments on Maggie Bennett Sculpture: Resin vs. PewterMaggie Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902320234827129094noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5233607453750102371.post-67352358233344517802011-04-20T22:21:43.460-04:002011-04-20T22:21:43.460-04:00I have painted some of the micro minis, though not...I have painted some of the micro minis, though not a whole lot. I'll have to find those pictures and get them online sometime soon. I haven't painted a lot of them because I mostly work on commission and just haven't had a lot of them commissioned! When I do sales pieces, for whatever reason I tend to work in larger scales.<br /><br />But I am happy to take commissions on any scale pieces! And I'm sure I will be taking commissions on the new guy. I do plan/hope to offer a limited OF-style run of them as well, so painted ones will be available that way. Should be fun!Maggie Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13902320234827129094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5233607453750102371.post-9457609194808962432011-04-20T12:33:14.221-04:002011-04-20T12:33:14.221-04:00Thanks for the information Maggie :) Perhaps I sho...Thanks for the information Maggie :) Perhaps I should get on the pewter bandwagon lol<br /><br /><br /><br />Do you have any painted up samples of your other pewters Maggie?<br /><br />and will you be taking commissions on these guys?April Currier/Stitchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5233607453750102371.post-46453058253555545032011-04-20T09:32:35.983-04:002011-04-20T09:32:35.983-04:00Some larger pieces are done in pewter (think figur...Some larger pieces are done in pewter (think figurines--dragons and unicorns are the ones I've seen most), but for the most part pewter is used for little things. That's for a couple of reasons--one is indeed the weight and therefore the cost of producing larger pieces. But as well, the commonly used molds for pewter simply can't accommodate pieces bigger than a couple of inches. The "production molds" (those vulcanized rubber ones) aren't generally very thick, perhaps only a couple of inches, which means any piece cast in them must not be very thick, either. Even a micro mini horse with a sharply turned head and neck (I'm thinking of something like Karen Gerhardt's Optime) might run into problems in the thinner molds.<br /><br />There are ways around that: thicker molds (to a point, they need to fit into the vulcanizing machine and the spin casting machine and I'm not sure what the limits there are. Also, I'm not sure what variety of mold blanks are commonly available), or cutting the original up, molding it cut-up, and reassembling each finished cast. This is extremely common in the miniatures industry--it's quite rare, in fact, to see horses cast as one piece. But I don't think people in the hobby would care much for horses that they had to assemble!<br /><br />There's also some odder problems that can happen due to the increased mass (remember that mass/volume increases with the cube of height, so a piece only a little taller can be significantly heavier). I'm not sure what causes them exactly, but when the caster I've used in the past worked on these larger scale horses for my commissioned project we had a lot of problems with porosity to the point that they actually had holes in the groin area. Quite annoying to fix, and the main reason I'm moving to a caster with more experience in a variety of size ranges. And those problems were with horses only 1/2" taller than micro minis! I can't say what you'd run into with a SM or larger size piece.Maggie Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13902320234827129094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5233607453750102371.post-34691015189253752242011-04-20T05:38:40.059-04:002011-04-20T05:38:40.059-04:00Thanks Maggie, I was wondering after yesterday'...Thanks Maggie, I was wondering after yesterday's post, why you choose pewter over resin.<br />One question - why aren't larger models cast using Pewter, is it the weight? I'm wondering where the line is that makes pewter a better option over resin, and vice versa.<br />Thanks again for the info!<br />KellyKelly's Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02643885290163373357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5233607453750102371.post-48725819840739173682011-04-19T18:13:56.600-04:002011-04-19T18:13:56.600-04:00Thanks for this information, Maggie, a very intere...Thanks for this information, Maggie, a very interesting post!Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02251408552464156330noreply@blogger.com