Ssh ! don't tell my Mrs !

So I had to cast up some more figures and my gas bottle ran out ! 'blast!' and because of  'lock down' I can't get a replacement bottle - evidently Calor gas for casting up toy soldiers is not essential under Government rules (I would beg to differ !) , so I thought I would use this electric hotplate . It proved less than successful - it has a cut off to stop it getting too hot - just as the metal starts melting , it was taking ages to get anything done and it was b****y freezing out in the shed so I hit on another idea ! .

Luckily my wife was out at work so I brought my casting stuff indoors and used the cooker - which worked very well indeed , the old saucepan is half full of sand to catch any spillages and I was MEGA careful ! . I remember seeing a photo of Donald Featherstone casting using a gas stove in his kitchen so if he could do it I had history on my side ! .

The fruits of my labour , I cleaned up very carefully - in fact my wife commented how tidy the kitchen looked , so all I have to do now is glue all these bits together ready for undercoating .

PS being a truthful sort of chap I ended confessing to her what I had been up to ( the dog and the younger cat had been watching me - the dog can be bribed into silence with treats but the cat is a bit of a sneak and trouble maker ! ) she said "so that's why the kitchen was clean !"