Category Archives: Mouldmaking and Casting

Back Under Pressure Again

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Tony

Some good news at last – Chris the Blacksmith has finished the replacement parts for our pressure pot, so we’re back in resin-casting action again 😊 Fortunately there isn’t much of a backlog so most of it will be cleared … Continue reading →

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Well that wasn’t supposed to happen!

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Phil

Whilst casting some 15mm building stock a few days ago something rather bizarre happened. What was supposed to be a large advanced building turned into a bit of a blob. The resin comes in two parts (resin and hardener) which is … Continue reading →

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Dammit…!

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Tony

Phil brought several new moulds to the workshop last week. One was the production mould for a new set of 2mm civic buildings, including a town hall, grammar school, hospital, library and large church. The mould looked good, the castings … Continue reading →

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Spinning tonight!

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Phil

Tony quite often gets excited when a new mould arrives at the workshop, bless him. I think though that he will be particularly happy with the new one that we’ll be trying tonight. All going well then you can expect … Continue reading →

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Plans for the weekend…….

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Phil

Its just me (and the cat) in the house the weekend. No children!!!! Just time for me to play catch-up in the final couple of weeks before Salute. And my god I’m going to need the time. The list of … Continue reading →

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Celtos Base-ics #2

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Tony

Having written a rambling piece about the new unit bases for Celtos, I mentioned that we were already in the process of making resin cast bases, but neglected to show any pictures. As you can see in the picture above, … Continue reading →

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Clean-up Job

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Tony

One of the most tedious parts of getting a model into production is the unglamourous but very necessary job of cleaning up master castings (known as ‘tins’) ready for the production moulds. I find this part of the process extremely … Continue reading →

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Interesting Times

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Tony

For the last year or so we’ve been experimenting with 3D printed models in various shapes and forms. We’ve been playing with different printing materials from different printing houses, different types of mould, different ways of preparing the models before … Continue reading →

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Bored now …

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Tony

Just in case you thought we’d gone quiet on the 15mm Power Armour … I’m in the middle of cleaning up castings for 58 arms and 18 torsos to make the production moulds. After much debate, we’ve decided on a … Continue reading →

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Spider Pig, Spider Pig, Does Whatever a Spider-Pig Does …

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Tony

It has to be said that the frivolous Simpsons-related title of this post has absolutely nothing to do with the content, except for a very vague spider link … but hopefully it made you look ! The Brigade vulcaniser (big … Continue reading →

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