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Hirstarts castle
GeneralFailure
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 10:07 AM UTC
Here's a few pictures of the castle I built with my son during the x-mas holiday. The grass was only added last weekend.

I spent more than an hour writing a complet overview of Hirstarts molds (www.hirstarts.com) in the review, but (for the second time )something went wrong and I lost the whole article. Now it's bedtime and I don't feel like starting all over again. Maybe I'll do that soon.

I hope these pictures give you an idea of what you can do with these molds. I just LOVE them !


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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 10:11 AM UTC
I bet it looks good....If we could only see the Pics
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 10:28 AM UTC
Sorry about that, Wolfie. I uploaded the text first, and add the pics one by one while editing. If something goes wrong while posting, at least I don't lose the whole exercise, only the last phase. Earlier this evening while posting my Wattoo pics I got an explorer error and everything went down, so I'm suspicious now.
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 10:29 AM UTC
Hi,

I can see the pics.

Jan, it's a nice castle you have done.


Jan, a tip - I had that problem sometimes so when I'm making a bigger post and/or with links or photos I write it at Notepad and then paste it and only close the Notepad after the page had refresh with my post.


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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 10:33 AM UTC
I can see the pictures.
Howitzer
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 11:09 AM UTC
OH and what are the price of the molds you used?
GeneralFailure
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 11:11 AM UTC
They come at 34USD each. Great quality stuff.
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 11:48 AM UTC
To pricey for me. I'm only 14, no job=no money.
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 01:23 PM UTC
What scale would these be approximately Jan? Looks like something that could be used in a dio, minus the skulls! This looks very cool.
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 03:56 PM UTC
Ya like a old castle which Nazis use as a base or a prision. Good idea PlasticBattle :-)
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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 08:05 PM UTC
That`s really cool Jan.

Man I wish my had done such things when I was young :-) :-)

Anyway that`s a fine looking castle you have there.


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Posted: Friday, March 14, 2003 - 09:59 AM UTC
Jan,

very nice and spooky place you and your son did there ! I like it. are those floorsections something that could be used in a 1/35th scale ?
GeneralFailure
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Posted: Friday, March 14, 2003 - 11:49 AM UTC
Depends. I think they are a bit over scale, but all depends what the floor needs to look like on 1/1...
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Posted: Friday, March 14, 2003 - 12:05 PM UTC
Really nice. This would be good for wargaming.
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Posted: Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 07:30 PM UTC
Nice castle you have here, GeneralFailure, but does the mold's box say anything about
it scale?.
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Posted: Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 09:08 PM UTC
Been nice to have that as a kid. We made our castles out of sugar cubes, it sure was hell when it rained. Be nice to know the scale, there is some company out there that does 35th Vikings and I think there are sets of 72nd knights and whatever's
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Posted: Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 03:00 AM UTC
The size of doorways and stairs come close to 1/35... but there's no official scale mentioned. You can check at www.hirstarts.com
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