Casting the pieces of a USS Flagg - has anyone ever done it?

by **remster_9**

Title says it all.

I was wondering if anyone had already tried to cast the pieces to replicate a USS Flagg, and what was the cost of it.

Seeing as I just acquired one myself, I don't think there's one part of it that couldn't be cast. However there are just so many of them, and they are so huge that they would require a ton of materials to reproduce the whole thing.

Has anyone even run down the numbers of such a thought? Given the sale value of one Flagg, how many Flaggs would one need to reproduce in order to break even?

For what I care, a good reproduction would be good enough - a little blue paint job, some decals and voilà! Cobra has their own aircraft carrier ;-)

Any thoughts?

I know the closest thing to it is that guy who, if building his own Flagg wasn't enough, hand-made his own FLEET of ships. But I was wondering if anyone had actually reproduced the real thing.

by **ZombieGuide**

Yep!
http://www.alyoshascorner.com

by **remster_9**

ZombieGuide wrote:Yep!
http://www.alyoshascorner.com

Nice! Now I know where to get a few missing parts ;-)

But from what I found, Alyosha only cast small parts that are easy to lose. Did someone try to cast the whole thing, since it's quite rare to find?

by **ZombieGuide**

Hehe, I dont think thats likely. The cost of the molds alone for something that size would run in the 1000s of dollars. Silicone ain't cheap!

by **nova**

Flagg Shells are anything but hard to find...they're just a pain because of shipping costs.

There'd be no profit in trying to cast any of the Super Structure or Deck Plates

by **Macrossmaster**

Yeah, what Nova said. Flagg's are everywhere...just no one wants to pay

by **remster_9**

Macrossmaster wrote:Yeah, what Nova said. Flagg's are everywhere...just no one wants to pay

That's not true, at least not in this part of the world. I guess Flaggs were never a sale priority for Hasbro here in Europe in the first place ;-)

The price of the set, already driven up by its rarity, combined to the shipping additionally makes it incredibly difficult to import on a regular basis...

On the other hand, I never suspected Flaggs were THAT easy to find continentally.