I need some advice. I bought an old Marauder Ogre figure on eBay recently and I'm pretty sure it is a copy. But before going back to the seller (I'm not blaming the seller BTW as people can make mistakes and I've bought from this seller before and had no problems) I thought I would check with others who know these things well. I have some experience in the area as I bought some copy figures from a shop in my hometown about 20 years ago - the telltale sigh for me being bubbles in the casting. Anyway here are the pics with some comments:
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| Double casting on the halberd - whilst a mould can slip I don't think a metal mould will produce this |
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| Bubbling - again I don't think one can get this from a metal mould |
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| Badly defined breastplate |
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| Badly defined detail on the back of the mini |
If you have any thoughts regarding this I would appreciate hearing them. A big thanks in advance
The bubbles or warts that you pointed out would make be suspicious.
ReplyDeleteI agree - the bubbles would seem to indicate this is a copy.
ReplyDeleteIf the seller has not been a problem in the past, I'd suggest you go back to him suggesting this figure is not genuine and see what he says.
It doesn't look to have been professionally spun cast, the figure has too many unformed spots where the metal has not filled out the detail, like on the halberd head and handle. High chance its a homemade copy.
ReplyDeletePerfectly normal work for the Plague Monks in charge of GW's Skavenblight facility.
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