What you can find when cleaning up a closet part 2

After "What you can find when cleaning up a closet part 1" here is part 2. As told in part 1 this has nothing to do with WWII but I found it interesting enough to tell here because it is about minis and a bit about casting.
What we have here are rubber molds from my childhood times. That is about 34 years ago. I found a date saying 1977. (I am feeling old now.) They were stashed away in a metal box.
The molds are to be used to cast historical minis.
As being a child at the time these molds are selected, it was not to form an army but they were more selected as what I thought where cool looking minis.
There are 10 molds and the molds are from Prinz August. Looking at it now I regret that I never bought the molds to cast horses to pull the cannon.
I am wondering if these molds could still be used to cast minis.
Let's take a look.

The molds

Mold example 1

What you can find when cleaning up a closet part 1

A few day's ago I was cleaning up a closest and boy what you can find when you haven't looked in it for many years. That is besides all the junk you can throw away.

First there is this box filled with 1:72 models mainly filled with WWII minis.
It contains, all kind of British troops, German troops, Australian troops, USA Airfield troops and USA WWI troops.
Some vehicles and last a Airfix pontoon bridge in HO-OO scale. This bridge has a total length of 65 cm.
All what you see here is between 30 and 35 years old.

Troops in a box

Vehicles

About the DAK Light Artillery Battery

The latest purchase for my DAK army, is the new DAK Light Artillery Battery box (GBX51).

Box cover

The box contains the following teams: 1 Staff team, 1 Command SMG team, 2 Observer teams and 4 10.5cm leFH18 howitzers.

Box contents

About the box contents.
There are 2 things I like to tell about. First, the less important one, what I miss is a diagram how to build the Howitzers. After laying out all the parts there was one thing left and I absolutely have no clue what to do with it. See picture.

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Then second and the important part, the minis.
The first thing that I noticed was the look of the minis. They are, compared to the older models, not so bulky. They are thinner and finer. The height is the same although that is not how it looks but the new models have a much thinner tab and thus look smaller. This would be not such big problem if it wasn't that a few minis in the box are the older ones so you can see the difference. Take a look at the picture below to see the difference.
Further the minis have lots of flash and some are even not nicely cast.
It is not that I dislike the minis it is just that you can see the difference compared with the other older minis of my DAK army.

The difference

Thanks for reading.

90. Leichte Afrika Division Schützen Kompanie part 7: 5cm PaK38 Platoon

The completed PaK38 platoon with 4 gun teams and a Command SMG team.
None of the teams are sealed yet because I still haven't bought a new spray-can of varnish.
I am not too happy how the bases turned out but they will do, maybe in the far future I will change them.
With this platoon finished I only have to paint 1 more platoon: The Artillery.
Hopefully I can go and pick up the box this weekend.

The 5cm PaK38 Platoon

PAK38 Update.

First pictures of my almost painted DAK PAK38 platoon.
Painting is almost done. The crew need some minor painting, not much, and then of-course the base.
I also have to figure out what color the ammo had for the PAK38 guns.
Sorry for the somewhat bad pictures.

DAK PAK38 platoon

The Command team

One of the guns plus crew

Thanks for looking.