Sunday, November 3, 2019

Home-casting...old school.


old days before we realized just how toxic lead is.












Until next time...

Soldier on!



Mike said...

I had a set much like this, and did cast a number of soldiers successfully. I cannot say what happened to the set, apparently it met the same fate as much of my stuff ("lost" while I was away).
Some years later, I bought a bullet mold, to cast longer "rifle" bullets, for a big lever action I owned.

There's something nearly primal about casting metal.

Brian Carrick said...

A fascinating post Manie, we didn't have any kits like that in England but one time we made slush cast toy soldiers in metalwork class at Secondary School. By the way, the DAK here are copies of the Charbens plastic figures and the GIs are copies of Timpo.

Mark, Man of TIN said...

A bit of casting heritage, Mannie, thanks for sharing.