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26-11-11, 03:10 PM
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Restrikes
what do forum members think of these please? Front of Regina rifles looks good the rear has file marks and such! the Robin Hoods looks ok too, but although a nice strike wrong material!
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26-11-11, 05:50 PM
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Robin Hoods
Billy, K&K state that this badge is in white metal and black, black what?
Most blackened badges are brass (gilding metal) then blackened, is this just an error in the text and should it read blackened brass. Rob
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#3
26-11-11, 06:27 PM
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The Regina Rifles looks ghastly.
It is a very common Canadian badge and I can see no point in reproducing it. Other members might have some ideas about it. Phil
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26-11-11, 08:03 PM
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Hi Billy,
I would venture slightly further down the track with the Robin Hoods, it looks like a paint job with lacquer on top ?? I don't know enough to say right or wrong, sorry...... Dave.
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#5
26-11-11, 10:28 PM
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Shouldn't be any excuse for a fake to have file marks. A quick rub down with P400 wet/dry progressing through P600/800/1000/1200 then a quick hit with a Dremel polishing pad and compound will get rid of any file marks.
Fakers these days don't seem to want to put in much effort - lazy sods!
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#6
26-11-11, 10:53 PM
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The Regina plate is a straight forward casting, either off an original or a restrike, so shouldn't qualify as a restrike in any way. It's a poor copy fake
I'd suspect it was an early copy and done in a semi-amateur home foundry since the back had to be padded out to cope with the thinness of the original stamping. Modern casting using full vacume chambers and vacume wax injection in serious prefessional shops would be able to cope with 0.5 to 1mm wall thickness. Casting that fine isn't difficult, it's the wax model that causes the problems and ends up with unwanted voids and flashing.
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#7
27-11-11, 07:40 AM
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These cost £2 each!The robin hoods is blakened brass and actually quite good really, the other two are just wrong but fronts are sound , but for the rear of the rifles badge you would like to have it in a collection! but as said before they must be making a profit even this low but these are getting better! and better! Oh and Hi Neibelungen am a metal/worker myself but couldn,t for the life of me make a badge!
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