{"id":1549,"date":"2012-11-25T21:52:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T21:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2012-11-25T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:02:33","slug":"out-of-the-melting-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/out-of-the-melting-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the melting pot&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/out-of-the-melting-pot\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>After a busy couple of days mould making I popped along to the workshop to try out two of three of the new master moulds. The castings shown are pretty much as they came out of the casting machine so are a little rough around the edges. I&#8217;m more than happy with the results though so with a little cleaning up they will be back in the vulcaniser to make production moulds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?attachment_id=1551\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1551\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1551\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/indonesians\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Indonesians.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1417,1126\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A3200 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1353853685&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;10.548998946259&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Indonesians\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Indonesians-1024x813.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Indonesians-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Indonesians-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Indonesians-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Indonesians.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I still need to make the moulds for the hulls of the PacFeds (which will be cast in resin rather then pewter). The first of those will be done in the next day or two so hopefully we should get pictures of completed castings up soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?attachment_id=1552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1552\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1552\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/pacfeds\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PacFeds.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1417,1169\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A3200 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1353852844&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;9.193&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PacFeds\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PacFeds-1024x844.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PacFeds-1024x844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PacFeds-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PacFeds-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PacFeds.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as the PacFeds and Indonesians I&#8217;ve also done the moulds for the <a title=\"tiny houses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/tiny-houses-redux\/\">tiny houses<\/a> and the <a title=\"Belgian civilians\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/more-belgians\/\">Belgian civilians<\/a> so expect a few more previews in a day or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a busy couple of days mould making I popped along to the workshop to try out two of three of the new master moulds. The castings shown are pretty much as they came out of the casting machine so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/out-of-the-melting-pot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-6mm-sf","category-previews"],"views":3641,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-oZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5186,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/another-fine-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":1549,"position":0},"title":"Another fine day &#8230;","author":"Tony","date":"April 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In contrast to yesterday's near gales, today was a bit calmer and warmer - so perfect weather for casting outdoors again. 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