THE METAL MOLDER - SECRET 90's TECH FOR CASTING METAL MINIS!

[@GoobertownHobbies]

This toy is so dangerous, I love it!!! 😂 If a child asked me to plug this in for them I would immediately take it away from them hahaha

[@ThisMiniSucks]

I seriously thought I was gonna burn my house down 😅😅😅

[@Dean_AKI]

35 years ago as a teen I was casting my own Orc army thanks to a company called Prince August. They are still going and you can still get the moulds. Proper 80's health and safety, me melting salvaged lead into a crucible on my stove top then pouring it in to vulcanised rubber moulds held together with clamps and elastic bands. But in the end I had an Orc army and the scars to show for it!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

So awesome. I think I might need to attempt this as well. I’m down for the scars but not the lead 😅

[@joevonseelen7416]

I appreciate you mentioning this company, seems really helpful so far.

[@tianman]

Good ole Prince august, knocked off so many recasts from rtv heat resist silicone and supplies from prince august, pretty made entire armies, probably a couple of cookers out there in the world with my lead/tin/bitmen stains

[@mokeimusic]

I still have my molds and its great.

[@spawn101]

Same thing here, to the year in fact. I used up all my savings to buy the fantasy molds at the time. But we cast in white metal, without lead, and underneath an extractor hood. Which seemed safe enough.. if you're not counting the fact that I had the burner and molds standing on several cracked asbestos tiles...

[@TimRoot-dotcom]

Very cool. I bought one of these off Ebay last year. The heater didn't work well on my used unit, but the little rubber molds are amazing. I use a candle and spoon to heat the metal and pour the molten metal into the little two-part molds. It took me some research to figure this out ... but the kit uses a safe bismuth-tin alloy called 281, which you can buy pretty cheap online.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Hey thank you so much! I was trying to figure out what to get for refills, that is super helpful!

[@MrDrokkul]

I bought one of these on clearance back in the late 90s just to try out. It's actually pretty safe. When it's working correctly the lid locks in place while it's heating and you can't open it up until it's all cooled down. It's no more dangerous than an Easy Bake Oven or a Creepy Crawlers set unless you have an applehead kid who doesn't listen. At the time I was trying my hand at sculpting minis in green stuff and wanted to see what would go into molding and casting my sculpts. I figured this would be a cheap way to try it out before investing in more serious equipment (which I never did, lol). This thing is actually a MUCH safer version of the old Gilbert Kasting Kit which had every surface open to the world (and curious fingers) and came with plenty of good ol' fashioned lead!

[@Illersvansen]

The 90s, a glorious time where kids could play with molten metal!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Truly the greatest.

[@evanlindsey1100]

There were toys like this in the 60s.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

@@evanlindsey1100 yeah! That’s when the original creepy crawlers came out, but you’re not getting a metal molder in stores today

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@ThisMiniSucksA few months ago there was a craft kit that seemed aimed at kids at one of the local craft stores kids project set isles. It was a cast your own chess set thing that supposedly included everything for casting more than 2 sets of pieces (probably so that there was definitely enough for a full board. Seems like it included a wooden chess board, felt pads for the pieces, and a pair of wipe over paint things to differentiate two sides (it was showing a brush over and wipe off thing similar to some of the oil painting paints for oil washes, but intended to tint the metal as well along with, supposedly, seal it). If it wasn't a basic chess set design, I might have grabbed it at the time, but the pieces shown on the box were more of the standard, cheap set look

[@evanlindsey1100]

@@ThisMiniSucks there was also a hot wheels set that cast melted plastic. Apparently a new version appeared once or twice with a lot of safety features baked in.

[@ChromeClanDesigns]

I had one when i was a kid. Loved it. I still cast pewter to this day

[@joebomberger]

I had one of these when I was a kid. It was a lot of fun! And probably a lot more dangerous than we thought lol

[@gilliesiut2332]

I still have mine from when I was a kid. It’s crazy the toys we had as a kid

[@samueljohnsonsquire]

When i was at school in America there was a kid names Marshall he gave me a tiny metal wizard and he told me that he had made it i thought that was amazing but after thought he must have been talking shit but hello and behold 25 something years later i learnt how he did it

[@emmamarx9284]

I totally had that growing up! And a creepy crawler oven as well!

[@aravel5249]

OMG the memories and the scars to match. I spent an entire summer late 80's melting white metal and sometimes but not often scrap lead, using vulcanised moulds and latex self made moulds (thank you prince august) an entire french and british Napoleonic army set. Literally hundreds of models that my friends and I than sat and painted and spent many many hours of fun engaged in war.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Prince August keeps coming up! Might have to do a sequel to this video!

[@aravel5249]

@@ThisMiniSucks i would def watch if you did. So much fun with those moulds and at the time so inexpensive to field an entire army of metal miniatures, as long as you didnt mind the burns and scorched table tops and the wrath of an irate mother....LOL

[@ThisMiniSucks]

It’s on!! Checking eBay now haha

[@NinjaFresh]

I had a Metal Molder! I made so many wizards it was so cash. Black cherry is the best Warhead flavor. Just FYI you can also write with the little pewter guys you make. Wizard was the best when his hat came out right. Also don't forget you can melt down the castings you did too.

[@Samsminis]

This was fun.

[@notworthit7708]

I used to have a bunch of glass beads with the wizard and motorcycle cast on them, had a bunch of other random casts on glass beads, it was a really strange niknak, but I remember them being at garage sales and on shelves in the early 2000s.

[@cameroncorrosive925]

i've been trying to remember what this was called! dude yes! i would burn the fuck out of myself as a kid molding the boxing gloves and robot molds lol.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

I need to get some of those robot molds haha they are SIcK

[@WafflePrince]

High qualty video! I can see your channel is gonna go places! Subscribed! :D

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Thank you!!

[@Modge17]

Glad to see you’re making videos again, subscribed! I remember watching your Tomb King Battalion video when all the Old World hype was around but was sad to see the video was nearly 2 years old!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

I know!! I had some crazy life stuff happened and had to take a step back, stoked to be shooting again, been having so much fun!!

[@Mercury_Beetle]

I loved this toy as a kid. Things were just soo damn tiny

[@KingmanHighborn]

Damn. That bike looked like it would have been perfect for Gaslands T-T. Also it sucks I missed the chance to get one if these at Goodwill, I was short on cash and when I came back, it was gone, so someone got a freaking cool device.

[@brycevo]

I just wish they were bigger

[@joshthompson2184]

Fun toy I found one of these at goodwill for $5 a few months ago!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Damn that’s a steal!! I need to start checking out thrift stores

[@EposVox]

This is sick

[@ultrasquid]

25mm was standard scale for most RPG miniatures up to the '90s. Warhammer was an exception at the time with their larger 32mm figures. Scale creep has led modern figures to be closer to 28mm or larger (what the industry calls "Heroic" scale), but tabletop grids are still 25mm, which is close to 1 inch.

[@Jjgm69]

Armless Pete: i cast, GHOST HAND!

[@K-Anator]

Dude, I had this thing, it was so sick.

[@prophet89]

I always wanted this toy

[@ThisMiniSucks]

eBay is your friend

[@Rook986]

I remember seeing the commercials for this all the time and wanting one so badly. It wasn't until I was older that I realized why they stopped selling it.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Imagine walking into target today and seeing this

[@Bluecho4]

You're probably the first person whose ever actually painted one of these. Or at least the first person in, like, a decade.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

It’s funny, when I was doing my research for the video I didn’t come across a single picture of a painted mini from this, I dunno if anyone actually has haha.

[@adampurdy1333]

We had something similar in the 80's too made by Prince August they made moulds specifically for D&D games, they were also a lot smaller than other minis of the time lol.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Yeah! People have been mentioning them in the comments, might have to give those a shot as well!

[@forrest0]

I had that toy, I got it and the one that you can make gummy spiders and stuff with for my birthday when i was a kid

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Same! I can still remember the smell

[@TheWizardsBrush]

Valiant effort man, the wizard ended up looking cool! I don't know if this toy came to the UK, I would have loved it as a kid. That advert you made cracked me up 😂😂

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Thank you! And I’m happy with him too, he’s not perfect but he’s MINE

[@willpenn966]

Black cherry, have enough at once and your tongue would bleed. Good times.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Seriously my tounge stayed cracked at summer camp we lived of off them haha

[@musicismandatory]

God i miss these days... on the topic of Warheads, my older brother got a set of Warheads gumballs in the late 90's. I remember having an orange one and crying 😂 (i was like 6)

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Oh yeah, were they like crybabies? I loved those too

[@copperrat5858]

Without that beard, it could be very well a princess, because look at this waistline XDDD (Still amazing paint job!!!)

[@shonamosites]

Black Cherry obviously!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

@@shonamosites haha yes all day

[@milkman9111]

Awesome video, look forward to more of your stuff! Audio seemed a bit echo-y but great quality everywhere else!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Ugh I agree, I moved my boom from over head to on top of my camera. Oops 😅

[@connorshaw-case6030]

when you eat all the warheads you turn into mati from captain planet XD with our power combined, oh wait... that was kwame

[@paulieg2206]

LOL what a nerd with the warheads

[@alg3249]

I am listening Jordan sorceries son.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

lol damn that’s dead on… @jordansorcery are you my father?

[@ultrasquid]

I have to wonder what the composition of the metal is that can melt with candle heat that is safe enough to be included in a kids' toy.

[@armoredjoey]

if it doesnt have the fiz in the middle and its not super sour on the outsize, its not a warhead IMO. (They changed their original design)

[@VOXindie]

What kind of metal did this thing use?

[@ThisMiniSucks]

I think it’s just called white metal pellets but I could be totally wrong

[@nightkitchen0]

Those yoyos on top of your CRT look like onedrops am i right? Looks like side effects on that silver one. ive been waiting for a yoyo/miniature fan to come along. Keep up the great work!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

It’s a one drop moon lord!! My most prized yo yo, love to see another thrower out there!! 🤙🏼🤙🏼

[@nightkitchen0]

@@ThisMiniSucks kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXTGpJd9nMioiaM

[@nightkitchen0]

thats me. so i have known dave and shawn at 1drp since they worked on the project and have been on the team for a long time./got a rastafarian colorway; the flyin lion of zion. i live in portland and we have a couple mini painting clubs that im getting to unify, ala the 70 classic, the Warriors. No more dice fights, no more paintbrush stabbings. Anyways. I think andrew who runs the machines at 1drp paints and does gunpla so i will share your vid with them. Im sure they will be stoked!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Yo that’s sick! I’d love that, big fan of the one drop team!!

[@marilynsilcott1254]

I don't think it's broke it just locks the lid when it gets hot and if the lid isn't all the way down you couldn't move the switch. I would always stick a screwdriver in the slot and just leave the lid open. I also ended up with the same wizard.

[@ChaseDaOrk3767]

I wonder if I could theoretically cast plastic minis from leftover plastic sprues using that thing?

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Maybe just make some sprue goo and dump it in - will report back

[@ChaseDaOrk3767]

@@ThisMiniSucks Alright

[@Illersvansen]

Resin would work

[@lukedennis2436]

The intro and editing are great, just can’t hear you great when you’re talking on your own. Might I suggest a mic upgrade or a boom set up of some kind if you don’t want the mic in frame. Just a suggestion, great stuff here!

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Yeah my boom is usually mounted over head but I was trying to slim down my setup for this one and I had it on top of my camera… don’t worry it’ll be back in its normal spot for the next one!! Thanks so much for watching!!!!

[@o0krazyboris0o]

Great vid bud, green apple all the way for warheads. The mix up with humor was great and man, if you are inspired to cast your own minis, check out our aussie lad Trent at Miscast here on the tube :)

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Wow… yeah I might need to go down the rabbit hole and watch all his videos now! They look sick!!

[@gunraptor]

Make custom molds for the "Metal Molder!"

[@rpm511]

Sad they stopped making toys like this

[@dr.tophat5883]

Our society really went from “kids are smarter than you think 😂” to “kids are smarter than you think 😢”

[@ChampagneSteamRoom]

Furby

[@ribofen]

Music a little too loud in balance.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

Heard! I had some mic placement issues on this one, should be fixed in the next one 🤙🏼

[@erikdavis3584]

I had one of these as a kid and my wizard didn't have a hand either.

[@ThisMiniSucks]

No way!!! Okay maybe I was doomed from the start then

[@vicioushellsing]

Thats kinda neat. nice job.