I need your help please to build my Dirz figures.

Thank you very much, tyrrus. Your post helped me a lot. For your recasting offer for the cloak that sounds good, let's discuss this via private message or email. Just out of curiosity is that cloak from an eBay auction selling a Confrontation bulk lately? If that is the case I might have the parts that you are missing and the other way around to build complete models, i.e. i have the left weapon hand of a wolfen zombie with a scythe but nothing else from that miniature.

Maybe you need a hand for that model?

No the cloak is not from a e-bay auction.
Dirz is one of the main armies which I collect. So I own a lot Dirz figures.

So I finished the Sasia Samaris Cloak for Tequilaman.

First I made casting-forms out of plaster. It is not the perfect material for it, but we want to keep it cheap.
My plaster was maybe to dry, could have been more fluid, the extraction of the original piece was a little bit tricky.
At the tail it wasn't casted correctly, which will be later a problem. But overall it is a good casting-form.
Then I left the plaster for many days to dry in the sun or on the heating unit of the room.



Today I casted the figure with Tin.
I heated the casting-forms in the oven and with a hot air gun. I melted the tin. I put the casting-forms between 2 pieces of wood and connected them with rubberbands so that the casting-forms stay together.
Then I casted. I waited couple of minutes, the top part of the cloak seperated easily from the casting-form, but at the base part it was stuck. I used pliers and screwdrivers with a leverage. It won't come out of the casting-form, then I used more force and of course the plaster casting-form cracked and was split in half. With glueing I could perhaps reuse it. But I think the second cast would be worse. So the tail of the cloak was trapped in this little bubble, where the casting-form was not correct.





So at one shoulder the recasted cloak is not correct and has a flash (casting error), but the the thickness of the material is not so thick so he will be able to remove it.
Another thing is the tail of the cloak there is a massive lump of tin. With a lot of work he can remove this as well. But I watched it several times and perhaps it would be a good idea to hide this failure of the figure behind a rock. So that it looks that the cloak emerges out of rocks. But we will see how Tequilaman will decide.