Would anybody out there be interested in a Course on how to make Clay master Figures? (4 Viewers)
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OzDigger
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Théres a few in UK WE wont sell to thats for certain. WE Can chose who WE do or do not do business with
If your business is so successful, why are you 'advertising' your products on this dealer owned (Treefrog Treasures) forum?
We have thé guts to follow our own créative instinct and not to invest in flash in thé Pan Techno babble Hype. Clay, Plaster... Observation skills .hands AND Real tools have served. Art creativity for thousands OF years. Theyve served me well too. Good luck
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I am putting together some potential courses here in our Studio Facility for when we open it localy. They will contain an Internet Element for those interested yes. Sid Horton who made our CHOTA SAHIB range (some of the fienst toy soldiers in the world) used Clay original masters, and there is no wrong in us using the same here. Some on here may choose to laugh, fine,e ach to their own, but traditional methods actually have advantages today not foreseen by some in the Industry.
If you are familair with the History of all the Great figure sculptors and makers, they used Traditonal materials, and by the way produced the finest work, the very back bone of this industry in their day. Our focus is on ENCOURAGING, not Dis Couraging exploration, ingenuity, creativity and to seek cost effective solutions that can only help keep good workers afloat in these days of rising energy, materials and costs. We are also going forward, not in reverse. others may mistake our position....
It is part of our Ethos to encourage NEW people, (and our future customers !!) back into this Hobby and to collect Figures from History once again. Without affordable (non china !) workmanship and prices, our Industry will continue to decline,age and go into History itself within a few years. New interest, affordable product, affordable material to use at home for the budding figure converter maker, attractively done. And to widen, re open and re make awareness again of the value, interest and personal skills base that Model making figures can offer to the new collector.
The Materials we use are proven over ten Thousand years of human History. Each to their own (Respectful please) opinions, It is not what you have got, it is what you DO with it that counts. I trained in Plaster, Plaster Mould making, as well as with Silicone and Lost Wax casting. That does not and ought not make me (or AN OTHER) blinkered to possibilities to try and use or develop. Remember HAUSER ELASTOLIN? Made figures from Varnish type substance and papier mache? Affordable, well done, still exist and collected today? Please do not "despise the day of small things".
The Proof of moving "ahead" is the discovery, invention, and also re invention, upgrading or improving of Materials and Workshop practices. The simplest discoveries and application of technique can radicaly change the outcomes and other factors for the BETTER, if and when one has the courage of ones conviction to dare and use them. Thta is NOT staying IN the past, but honouring it.
For those reasons, we will be offerring a selection of our castings and figure equipments, weapons horses etc, as "Conversion" packs, to foster and encourage development of other figures in the same genre or totaly new. My personal wish as a Producer and Re Issuer of existing quality ranges, is to create interest, a customer base, that comes back, and to widen interest in the Hobby to others. i am an Artists, not just a maker of castings
Yeah well right, "over to you".....My products WILL sell. It is entirely up to each person what they buy or do not, and to choose what to listen to or not. Good day to you Sir.