Classic Space Marine Captains on made to order

Finecast was a thing in itself, really had to compromise the sculpts with all the vents for it to work. I recall watch a video with someone from the production team who discussed it in more detail.
 
I seem to remember the aim was to do spin casting, but with a resin/plastic rather than metal? Although I wasn't really in a GW phase at the time so wasn't paying much attention.
 
Eric said:
I seem to remember the aim was to do spin casting, but with a resin/plastic rather than metal? Although I wasn't really in a GW phase at the time so wasn't paying much attention.
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Spin cast resin was a brief fad in the late 90s with companies used to spinning metal. It's a really dumb way to cast resin.
 
of course, you need to take into account with metal, any mis-casts and sprue pieces go back into the pot to be remelted and used. with resin, it's one-shot and you are done. you need more sprue bits/channels and you can't reuse them, no can you do much with mis-casts bar the odd cheap sale. this creates far more waste and increases the PpP. and apart from some automation, metal casting takes less man hours. you heat up the metal, you pour, you take mould out of spin caster, you have it sitting for 10 mins to cool down before you can reuse that mould. with Resin, you are gonna want atleast an hour gap.
 
I mean in the way you can't reuse resin ^_^ In theory, you can probably use some as filler but the reaction has taken place and it's now inert. Though some are trying to claim a 'reusable 3d printer resin', I'm not sure how much I trust the 'early days results' like that. Not properly reported or tested yet..

Fine for hobby casting with filler but I wouldn't recommend it as a commercial thing.
 
orkwrangler said:
I believe it was because of volatility in metal prices. Made profitability of metal range impossible to predict.
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I meant spinning resin is dumb. Cast it in a pressure pot, fine. Spin it? Nope.
Sure, metal price fluctuates. Thanks to the big orange baby tin is the highest it's ever been, making regular casting alloy £30 a kilo. That still makes an average figure about 40p of metal. Ten years ago it was about £8 a kilo.
 
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Eric said:
We've Cornish members, time to find one with a mine on their land and start digging! :)
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If you want to go back to classic lead, the real ancient Roman plumber's stuff and not that fancy non-toxic Britannia metal, I can probably help you out with that. I'm sitting on a clay mine, but the lead belt is pretty nearby. I may have a friend with a cabin where we could mine a bit. Or . . . maybe better to just find your Cornish friends and dig up some tin. Never mind. I don't really care to dig up that lead after all, and I can't ethically ask anyone else to do it. (Not that this has historically stopped other people from "asking." Doe Run is, I believe, still actively mining, though how much longer that will last I don't know. There's simply too many safety considerations at every step of the process.)
 
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