Category Materials & Craft

A colourway that reaches the catalogue has usually been through three checks and at least one rejection. Here is what kills the ones nobody sees.

Three things we hear about fiberglass all the time. Two are wrong, one is fair, and the fair one is the reason we tell buyers to look at a piece in person.

Airbrush, hand, batch of paint. Three reasons the same character comes out slightly different twice, and how much variation is normal.

Gloss photographs beautifully and lives badly. Why we seal everything in matte, and the one situation where we'd reconsider.

Every cast piece has a line down its side. How it gets there, what we do about it, and how to tell good seam work from bad in a photo.

A figure that stands 120 cm tall shouldn't be this easy to carry. Here's what the shell is actually made of, and what it costs us to do it that way.