Resin Casting: Between the Bolter and Me Casting Gate

We created a gate for attaching to future resin casting projects!

We started creating silicone molds and doing some small scale resin casting recently for our friend Nemessos Miniatures. One of the most important parts of creating a successful and consistent silicone mold is to attach the piece you are casting to a substantial gate, ensuring that enough resin is poured to completely fill the mold. In the past, we have used discarded gates from Forge World models we had in our collection. We realized it would be fun if we created our own gate that had our logo on it for future casting projects. To do this, Adam created a wedge of modeling putty and sculpted our logo onto it. We were able to create a simple one-piece mold to make copies of the new gate, and quickly made a series of copies that we plan to use in future casting projects.

Dragged into Turbolasers Episode 131: A major disappointment - Warhammer 40,000 Armageddon Space Orks

What happened to the necks of orks over the years?

We talk with our friend Brad about all of the newly revealed Warhammer 40k Armageddon Space Ork models. We discuss how disappointed we are with the new models and how the initial reveals got our hopes up, only to be dashed by the complete reveal of the Armageddon box.

Resin Casting: Molds for Nemessos Miniatures

I am back to silicone mold making!

Over the years, we have experimented with creating silicone molds to create resin copies of some of our conversions. Eventually, we shifted to creating single-piece molds due to their simplicity and have used them to create copies of some of the tiny firearms we have converted in the past. Recently, our friend Brian of Nemessos Miniatures inquired whether we could help him create resin casts of a series of heads he designed for an antiquity-inspired elf army, which he could use across various game systems. Having always been impressed with his careful conversion work and attention to detail and scale, I enthusiastically agreed to help. It would prove to be a great way to dust off my casting equipment and start creating resin copies of conversions again!

GorkaMorka: Red Gobbo Conversion

For Da Revolushun!

Over the last few weeks, we have been excited about greenskins in various forms, from painting a longsnout, to discussing the upcoming editions of Warhammer 40,000 featuring new Ork models, to playing Space Gits. Sadly, our blog has not focused on the more diminutive grots and gretchin, despite our love for them, particularly the late 90s-era GorkaMorka grots. We realized we had an opportunity to change this when we found a resin cast of the Red Gobbo (a Rebel Grot special character from the GorkaMorka Digganob expansion) that we made when we started to create one-piece silicon molds. Resin is a lot easier to work with than metal, so we decided it would be fun to convert the Red Gobbo and showcase them here on the blog!