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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 7, 2004 8:25 PM
Jack your molds and .figurines are terrific,The owner of Mosquito boat hobbies.com,his name is Frank might be interested in the work you do. He might want 1/20 scale figurines of US Navy sailors for his company,no one in the world makes them,trust me I know I modified Tamiya figures to get mine.Thanks for the look see into your world ............Alan
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  • From: Bucks county, PA
Posted by Bucksco on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 6:55 PM
A brother in the fraternity of "Prototype Design Engineers".
Yep, been there done that. I worked for a design firm in PA for 15 years. I worked up from the casting department to model maker and finally the design department (doing CAD work). I was lucky in the respaect that we did a ton of photo model work for companies like the Franklin Mint( got to do a lot of car models!) We also did a bulk of work for toy companies like Mattel,Fisher-price,Hasbro,Kenner etc....
I went to work for a major toy train manufacturer for about 5 years but had to relocate do to family cicumstance (still doing a ton of contract work for them).
For the last couple of years I've been "Keystone Design LLC" selling myself to the highest bidder.
As you said it's fun to talk shop.
Good Luck,
Jack
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 8:40 AM
Right on. I've been an ID model maker myself since about 1996 (not old enough to have as long a work history as you've accumulated). RTV mold making was the first thing I did when I got into the industry. I'm currently doing contract work for a local toy company myself, making their concept and photographic models. I'd post some pics but this is a recent thing and all the stuff I've done for them is still in the prototype stage and confidential, though a few of those models were at a big toy trade show in NYC a few months ago though. Until the last company I worked for shut down our facility out here in late 01, I had as many as five models for five separate clients at the CES show at any given year. That was the big show for us. We worked like santa's elves all through the holidays to get all those projects done.

I think you're the first person I've encountered in the scale modeling community who has done this type of work. I knew one engineer at one of the companies I worked for who was a scale modeler but he was the only one. The guy I learned the trade from is one of the finest ID modelers I've seen, and yet he has never so much as looked at a model kit in his life.

Here's a few things I've done. It's mostly small stuff with a lot of soft urethane resin over molding. They got a lot of milage out of my mold making and resin casting skills at that last outfit. I didn't think to take pictures of a lot of the things I've done over the years. Some of it I simply couldn't.

http://www.geocities.com/plymonkey/index_proto.html

One of the neat things about working for a company that does specifically prototypes is that we got to model everything. Not just one type of product, though certain industries used us more than others, so we saw a lot of computer products come through. Always a little variety though.

It's nice to talk shop a little though, that's for sure.
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  • From: Bucks county, PA
Posted by Bucksco on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 10:14 PM
I've been involved in design engineering(mostly within the toy industry) for some 25 years or so. If you check out this link
http://www.msnusers.com/KeystoneDesign
you'll see a few of the other things I've done for various manufacturers. My work area looks good because I just cleaned it up for the photos!

Jack
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 9:10 PM
Good ol' GI1000. I sure wish I had as nice a work space. Do you any kind of design prototype work, or only scale models for your business?
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 6:36 PM
No you didn't but it probably has to help. I am proud of you!

Richard
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  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by cassibill on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 6:19 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by RSaddlemire

Cassibill you amaze me.

Here you are in your finals which could be one of the most important steps of your career and you are still posting on the forum.

I salute you.

Richard

I'm writing papers on humans with tails, a Dakota village, and archetectural changes when rural houses are annexed, I need something to do besides that or I'll lose it. Did I mention I'm nuts???Tongue [:P]

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 5:53 PM
Cassibill you amaze me.

Here you are in your finals which could be one of the most important steps of your career and you are still posting on the forum.

I salute you.

Richard
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  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by cassibill on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 4:43 PM
Thanks!! That's really cool.

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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  • From: Bucks county, PA
Figure molds
Posted by Bucksco on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 4:21 PM
From to time the question of "molds" and how to do them comes up. I'm sure a large number out there have never seen one so I decided to post a couple of pictures of some recent "molds"

http://www.msnusers.com/KeystoneDesign/workinprogress.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=94

http://www.msnusers.com/KeystoneDesign/workinprogress.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=95

The originals-
http://www.msnusers.com/KeystoneDesign/workinprogress.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=96

Jack
Keystone Design LLC
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