Pewter Casting Republic Credits (from Star Wars the Clone Wars)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Today I try out pewter casting for the first time, and we're gonna try and cast up some Republic Credits as seen in Star Wars the Clone Wars to make some awesome prop pieces to have in my collection.
My Etsy Shop
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High temperature silicone from here:
www.ema-models...
Pewter from the English Pewter Company
www.ebay.co.uk...
Molten pewter loves to bead up, it's a little like mercury if you've ever spilt that. Making the mould upright means there's lots of heavy metal at the top pressing down and forcing the metal at the bottom to go into all the nooks. For higher detail stuff the backplate should be rubber, the aluminium will allow a lot of the heat to leave the metal and it'll solidify really quickly. I used to cast my own wargaming miniatures and I always found that the first cast never came out right but once you get a production line going your moulds dont get time to get cold and you start getting really good casts.
Also, do you want imperial entanglements? because this is how you get imperial entanglements.
Yeah definitely works better with the mould staying warm. Didn't stretch to the 2 part mould for this one, but yeah will be better for the next one for sure 😁
Nice work
Great! Just recently I did copper plating on pewter which gave a sort of antique gold look? Copper sulphate off eBay and 2x AA batteries.
Would love to see some done in brass and copper eventually
Would love them in brass, but a whole other process there.....can't stretch to sand casting and a furnace 😄
Credits will do fine
Nice Video!
If you'd want them brass plated easily, you could try heating up a brass wire brush (one that goes in a drill/dremel/angle grinder has had the best results for me) and brush the surface down. It yielded some lovely results for me in the past
I would do that on steel, but the heat (and coarseness on the brush) would damage the pewter 1
Neat. There is now no Reason anymore not to pay me when i got the bounty xD
I think 3 things might improve the experience: 1. Ditch the aluminum back, it's a big heat sink. Probably better to use a 2 part silicone mold. I have even seen smooth wood to work. 2. Your pouring seems slow. I say that as I pour silver/copper etc. and it has to be done FAST to preserve the heat. 3. Heating in one vessel & transferring to a second for pouring is also a loss of heat problem, in both time and in heat transfer to the pouring vessel.
Yes completely agree. I abandoned the aluminium back even in that project for that reason, ended up pouring flat and then cleaning up the backs. Also completely agree with the transfer time, and although I have the fancy heater, heating in a small pouring pot would work much better
This will seem like a strange suggestion, after all the effort you made to produce those handsome pieces, but one of the attractions of Star Wars when it first came out was the dirty, gritty, used feeling of the hardware. It added a realism that the perfect, gleaming spaceships and devices of other movies did not have. Perhaps you would want to make some "roughed-up" versions with the nicks and scratches that used coins have.
Awsome!!!
Реально круто, я хочу себе такие. (Really cool, I want one for myself.)
Have a few sets over on my Etsy shop 🙂
Lovely work as always, what is the exchange rate for Republic Credits these days? I have seen mixed alloys of casting metals that have a goldish colour, but I think it requires the sort of melting temperatures that would burn your moulds. Love the show, thanks for sharing your process.
Yeah, pretty much the temperature limit for this silicone, can't do brass or anything like that.
@@BucketheadStudios look into electroplating, can be done for very low bucks, then you can plate them in nickel, copper, gold, silver ect.
Nice! Now you've UNLIMITED CREDITS!!!! ;) Casting is really nice but hard tho well done!
niceee
Where did you buy the metal pouring machine
EMA Model Supplies
This will definitely affect the economy
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Como derrites el aluminio?
[Later]
BREAKING NEWS: The youtuber name “Buckethead Studios” had been arrested after being caught using a counterfeit credit
As of Oct 9 2022: Current price of Republic Credits is USD $0.000087705547. Rather have BTC, ETH, or MATIC, probably why Hondo doesn't want it.