Warren’s Nottingham Road Trip: Learning The Casting Craft!
July 28, 2013 by warzan
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Awesome video. Looks like you really enjoyed casting them @Warzan maybe a new career in the works?!
Great video Warren, you looked like you enjoyed doing that..
Many years ago when I was a teenager I used to cast at home the the 40mm Prince August kits, which was fun until I spilt the hot metal on the kitchen worktop, My mum was not best pleased… Lol.
Funnily enough I was just there myself. Did you get across the road to the resin casting?
Great video. I never really knew what went into creating metal models apart from phrases like “spin casting” absolutely fascinating to see how it’s done.
very interesting, ‘how it works’ for gamers
Will BOW be getting a casting machine for your own minis?
Wow, for twenty minutes I could almost believe I was watching some daytime educational program on BBC 2!
And is that a good thing or a bad thing?
A good thing. Definitely a good thing. Mad presenting skills, my friend 😉
Surprised you didn’t put your own spin on it and do some Stug riders.
For some reason I thought there would be more too it.
I would love to see plastic and resin casting if at all possible?
Awesome little video! I’m an engineer, and have done sand casting and injection moulding, but this is the first time I’ve seen spin casting. I found the video really interesting and enjoyable!
It opens an interesting possibility to do a series of educational videos of the behind the scenes stuff of the hobby! Maybe look at the manufacture of paints, dice, plastic and resin models, flock, grass tufts, etc etc. That would be a great series to watch.
I agree 😉
Great video, something i’ve always wanted to try myself
its nice to see the work that goes into all the new shiny
Nice video, you thoroughly enjoyed that!
Next Warren will be taking Dr Brian Cox’s job from him and explaining to us Einsteins Unified Theory and solving the whole gravity problem.
The origin of chimp-pig-man could well be the television highlight of the year.
Thumbs up for the video and I agree that gravity is a real drag… did you see what I did there? Clever me.
you must have a blast with work like this…
Glad I finally got see how this side of the hobby is done. Big thanks guys ;0)
Good thing the aprons come in Wargamer size as well … it is only envy talking 😉
Wargamer and Xtra Wargamer
the only sizes you need!
Great vid! After speaking with the designers, you get to show us some other aspects of this industry. Really interesting. Should have been fun actually putting your hands to it. Congrats @warzan!
This reminds me of working as a jeweler and preparing lost wax molds and casing precious metals. Loved seeing this
Really fun! I’ve seen other casting videos on YouTube, but this is a really good one. Can we see a sculptors studio next? That’s something I haven’t been able to find (except for one by Westwind)… I still find I hard to believe a lot of it is sculpted by hand.
Great video Warren, I love seeing how things are made. Look forward to seeing resin casting sometime. 🙂
i would be really proud of myself if i were you Warren, first go and only a missing foot, if it was me, i’d be lucky to make the sprue filled up! great video, more of these would be awesome!
I hope you kept the guy with the missing foot,
whoever wins those models should be proud to have a Warren special
Some tidbits to complement the video. The mould Warren was using is made from silicon, the black moulds are made of rubber. The rubber comes from recycled F1 tyres. Warlord get through about a ton(ne?) of metal each month. The impurities rise to the surface and are skimmed off into containers which are picked up and removed by the company they get the metal off. GW’s metal contains (or contained) no lead and did contain trace amounts of precious metals. GW sold this precious metal wastage on. Bryan Ansell is responsible for spin casting being the primary method of metal… Read more »
Now that where interesting tidbits
Well looking forward to watching this