darthfozzywig  | 03 Jan 2013 9:44 a.m. PST |
Neat! I like that there are different types of maces. Smash! |
 elsyrsyn | 03 Jan 2013 9:50 a.m. PST |
Those are pretty cool, but what an inefficient use of styrene. They might also have been more generally useful without the hands molded on. Doug |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 03 Jan 2013 10:00 a.m. PST |
Oww! Hand for 40k models! |
| Dawnbringer | 03 Jan 2013 10:16 a.m. PST |
It's easier to remove the hands then it would be to sculpt them on. For people needing sizing reference they are just a smidgen smaller than the Perry's WotR stuff, so I don't think they'll fit in with 40k's style(read ginormous) of weapons. They should be good with most historicals. |
 Alxbates | 03 Jan 2013 10:43 a.m. PST |
Those are some neat maces! But that sure looks like a LOT of plastic for not a lot of mace! |
 MrHarold | 03 Jan 2013 10:56 a.m. PST |
I'm pretty sure the plastic isn't the expensive part. Once you get to this part in the tooling and such, the plastic is a petty minor expense. |
| elsyrsyn | 03 Jan 2013 11:10 a.m. PST |
I didn't saw it was expensive – I said it was inefficient. Doug |
| BigNickR | 03 Jan 2013 12:53 p.m. PST |
I'm pretty sure the plastic isn't the expensive part. Once you get to this part in the tooling and such, the plastic is a petty minor expense.
I didn't saw it was expensive – I said it was inefficient. Doug
yeah… but i can see why he didn't want to make a single sprue of thirty to fifty maces, and only sell like 5 of them. If it were me, and I had a mold that size to work with, i'd have cut the tool into quarters and used one injection mold to make swords, maces, and shields (round and kite) and broken up the mini-sprues and sold those for $2 USD each. Get 4 times the use from one mold. |
Dr Mathias  | 03 Jan 2013 12:54 p.m. PST |
I'm glad they chose to mold hands on. I'm really very tired of gluing weapons into open hands, or pinning little plastic shafts. Another option would be to have one or two of each mace without hands, two or three with. There's just no pleasing some people :) |
 John the OFM | 03 Jan 2013 3:08 p.m. PST |
Those are pretty cool, but what an inefficient use of styrene. Idunno. 16 usable pieces for $2 USD seems pretty efficient to me. You aren't buying bulk plastic.  |
| MrHarold | 03 Jan 2013 3:57 p.m. PST |
And it looks like it'd keep the maces from getting damaged during handling. |
 Wyatt the Odd | 03 Jan 2013 9:36 p.m. PST |
A grazing mace
How sweet the sound
That slays a wretch like thee.
My sword was lost,
But mace was found.
'Tis now your death you see. I may have to get a sprue or three of a this and the other sprues. It might've been better to have some "handless" maces on the sprue too because these aren't female hands. Wyatt |
| 10thFoot | 04 Jan 2013 4:22 a.m. PST |
Better still, make some nice maces and figures that don't look like statues. |
