Pictures of Treefrog's Visit to Beau Geste (1 Viewer)

[Shannon Reuss]

With the new album feature I decided to go ahead and post these long overdue pictures of our first trip to the Beau Geste studio back in 2006. We brought our son along with us and while it made business meetings a little more difficult it was an awesome experience for a then-seven-year-old.

Here's the link to the album.

 

[wadepat]

Hi Shannon,

Thanks for posting these excellent pictures in your album. As you know, I am a Beau Geste fan and I am thrilled to see Ana's team in their work setting. Visiting Ana, her family, and the Beau Geste team must have been a very exciting experience. The excitement and pleasure of your experience is clearly communicated in your pictures! I certainly appreciate the opportunity to view them.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[theBaron]

Thanks, Shannon, for posting the pictures! I always find it interesting to have a look into the workshop and see the process.

Do they do all of their casting as drop-casting by hand, or do they have a spin-caster as well? If they're doing it all by hand, then their output is that much more astounding.

Prosit!
Brad

 

[Shannon Reuss]

Hi Brad,
I had a conversation about drop vs. spin casting with Ana not that long ago so I could attempt to answer this question, however a better answer would come from Ana. I have alerted her to your question and she will answer shortly.
Glad you all enjoying the pictures. I might add another album of the second trip we took to Beau Geste the next year.
Regards,

 

[Ana Donzino]

Brad,

We mainly drop-cast our miniatures. The spincasting machine usually flattens the castings so they need to be sculpted having that in mind if you want to have the correct volumes. This is the best way of casting when you have a large production. We plan this for those sets that are painted in several versions and that have a band too, so there will be many castings needed for that particular sculpture.

But as we produce upon order and don't keep stock, the usual castings for a week might require one of each of many different sets, and it's more complicated to spincast figures from different molds on such small productions. Our caster manages to drop-cast with a close quality control. We don't need to re-size the sculptures this way, and we can always cast one set or one figure at any minute without having to set everything to spincast.

Ana

 

[theBaron]

Hi, Ana, thanks for the reply and the look inside your shop!

I can appreciate the work that goes into the process, as a homecaster myself. Keep up the great work!

Prost!
Brad