Cloaks!

[aelfwine]

And once more I've something vaguely trivial and annoying to suggest...

Cloaks!

I recently purchased LR 19 in that wonderful clearance sale - on top of several examples of LR 21 (Watcher At Sarn Ford - the Ranger guy), and LR 36 (Glorfindel). All three miniatures and presumably others have detachable cloaks. This is a minor inconvienience for some...but a boon for converters.

Cloaks are an absolute curse to do correctly in green stuff/modelling putty. Neither I, nor my wife who is a trained potter and sculptress, can make decent cloaks with green modelling putty. Just don't tell her I said that.

I even tried making a little mould to help me shape the putty, but it doesn't work very well.

What would solve my problem immensely would be if mithril released a pack of cloaks of the L19, LR21 and LR 36 examples for converters, ala the wonderful Weapons Pack for the clearance sale.

This would make me very, very happy.

Gavin

[maenas]

Hi aelfwine, that one is a good idea!

Meanwhile have you tried to do those cloaks with something as a base? I long ago made some flags with coke cans.... I'll try to explain.

Serve yourself a coke and relax, then with a sharp knife or scissors cut out a square of that metal, be careful because it is very sharp!! and then you can work on it.

I don't assure that this work but i did with flags and they are not exactly the same as cloaks, but maybe you can try. Good luck!

[aelfwine]

That's actually a good idea.

Another trick that sort of works is to use a Prince August mould and put a flattened piece of modelling putty in there and then ease it out a while later. The main problem with that being the figure with the most suitable mould (the High Elf Captain), I don't have yet. Have the figure, but not the mould

Gavin

[ddaines]

With the new Britons released by PA, a few cloaks would be very useful for either converting to LotR or using as is maybe.