Casting lead soldiers.

[bladeknot]

Working on casting lead soldiers today. Much harder than I thought. My grandfather was in the Army in World War One, so I did some Doughboys. This machine gunner came out nice. Still have some finish filing to do.

 

[bladeknot]

Here’s the molds.

 

[bladeknot]

No electric lead melting pots for me… just pure fire and liquid metal.

 

[knarfeng]

You want to be doing that with good ventilation. Lead is reasonably toxic. Once in the molten stage you can get fumes which can be inhaled. And you want to keep lead contamination limited to the work room. Don't track that into the rest of the house.

 

[bladeknot]

Right. No ill effects.

 

[eveled]

They make lead free stuff.

I’ve melted a lot of wheel weights down and its nasty stuff. Don’t overheat it just melt it.