Bears

Yes, I have -maybe two?- more castings of the mother bear left…
Yeah, I could paint them like these fancy bears!

We also cast a batch of the bear cubs ( poured in new molds,but made from the original masters) because we only had four of the original cubs. I think all the momma grizzlies should have an opportunity to have their cubs too.
So far, these cubs and the lion are the only pieces we have made new molds on and recast from the old line.
I just painted about 80 cubs yesterday, in normal bear color.

There should be about 3 unpainted mother bears left. According to the first brown mother bear auctions, there were 3 damaged bears that were not painted yet (because they needed to be repaired), and they were intended to be browns #37-40. We do have the epoxy master for the Mother bear, but I don’t know if we have any tooling to cast more. I don’t think anyone would mind though if brown bear 37-40 “disappeared” and were painted white instead.

Yay!! (I didn’t want to have to photograph all those cubs individually for ebay!)

YAY! *happy dance*

oooh! this should be interesting! I wouldn’t mind the sitting baby myself…cute!

No-no, the cubs are for the store, limited production.

Oh how nice! Do you have any idea when they could appear in the store?

I should be able to finish painting them today, maybe. Then they will probably need pads cut by hand, unless a pad from some other piece will fit… (we don’t have dies made for cutting these pads) -and then they may need eyes painted . Not sure what size the baby bears take.
SOOOO -to answer you question, without hitches, maybe the end of this week, or early next week?? I never know.
I asked the casters to make 40 of each kind of cub. I suspect we will need more of the sitting one.

I’ll probably buy both. I think theyre both cute and Brandon loves bears!