So, one of the very first posts I ever did here was a couple of casualty markers. But since then, I haven't really kept up with that. However, playing my big birthday Tczew game, I definitely saw how some little dead guys might enhance the tabletop experience, even if ultimately I would still be using dice to track the specific numbers.
But even further back, way back to the mid nineties when I was in middle school, when I first encountered wargaming miniatures at all, one of my first reactions was that I wanted to sculpt my own. That also fell by the wayside for a couple decades, but when I was recently evaluating some battles I would like to recreate after Tczew, I realized that lots of them require large numbers of mediocre troops that are not available in plastic. So the idea of sculpting my own miniatures and casting them recurred to me.
Well, there's a bit of a learning curve with sculpting, so I decided to start with some dead guys for some low-stakes practice, and one of them turned out well, so I bought a casting kit to give that a shot as well.
Once the one turned out OK, I decided to make some variants - one with boots and gloves to represent a reiter, and a one with a bandolier to be a musketeer. The original mold I will use for pike casualties
I'm pretty pleased with the results! Additional castings will be fancied up with headgear, hands and weapons from real miniature kits for variety. Hopefully I can sculpt a full miniature soon that's worth trying a double-sided mold on.
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