Spent a few hours casting up some extra figures for my 54mm collections - thanks to 'B' my wargaming colleague for providing the old figures to be melted down - think these are Heroic & Ros FPW (?) .
Some of my 54mm Prince August molds are rather worn and need that bit of extra clamping to stop the metal running .
Here are the fruits of my casting , I've had to use a bit of 'green stuff' to get the arms to fit and repair a miss-cast rifle . These molds are some of Prince August's oldest molds and perhaps showing their age compared to their newer ones . I've added Irregular Picklehaube heads to turn them into Prussian/German/Black Army .
Flushed with success I thought I would try and cast from this ancient mold I once got years ago from a junk/antique shop - I have NEVER managed to get a casting from this mold - and failed again today ! . Think I need to add some channels to the horses feet and riders head to help the flow of metal , also I think the mold has to be heated up to a high temperature to get the metal to run before it cools . Being solid it will take quite a bit of metal per casting but if I can get figures from it I could do head swaps and it would be very useful - watch this space for further developments .
Hi Tony- Your Prince August figures with Prussian Head swaps come up excellently well. When I was doing Casting I used a 'LEE-Pro' electric melting pot- saves a lot of mucking around and is a breeze to work with- no mess and safe - the Pots can be obtained from Gunsmith Shops - it is an American Machine. Well worth the price. Regards. KEV.
ReplyDeleteYes I've seen the melting pot - must start saving up my pennies .
DeleteI have one of those bottom-pout pots from Lee. It melts a lot of metal, but I have to say that the spout is a little prone to jamming, and I have had issues that I think are caused by the pour rate being slow enough that the metal doesn’t fill the extremities of the mold cavity beofre solidifying. I switch over to a Palmer heated metal ladle this past summer, and felt that the results were generally better. I still need the Lee, though for reducing large bars to smaller ingots.
DeleteMust admit I've had no dealings with them .
DeleteClear the spout of the melting pot with an 'L' shaped piece of Piano Wire.
DeleteTeutonic chaps look splendid. Look forward to seeing them in all their glossy glory.
ReplyDeleteBusy painting them now - the weather is lousy so keeping me indoors .
DeleteThe prussian chaps look great; the cavalry mould looks like it will need a lot of air vents/reservoirs - good luck
ReplyDeleteYes being a heavy metal I am a bit cautious in cutting vents in it .
DeleteIt must take a lot of those Heroics & Ros figures to make one of those 54mm chaps.
ReplyDeleteThere was a lot of 15mm as well as other bits and pieces .
DeleteA most productive 'few hours'; beaut stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe horse and rider are so close. It does not look as though it will take much refurbishment of the mould?
Regards, James
Think I'm not heating the mold enough to get the metal to flow through it before setting .
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