Mold Master

(My apologies if this goes through twice; it seems that my e-mail is
still a little wonky.... I'm receiving things from the list, but none of my
posts seem to go through. It's getting REALLY irritating.)

First of all; I'm back. I must have gotten dumped off the list somehow.
 I
resubscribed, being a glutton for punishment, and am now back to normal.
Relatively speaking, at least.
        I was in Kay-bee toys today, making my weekly check (The damned
Micro Machines Star Wars Robots pack is STILL at regular price!), and I saw
some molds meant for a product called Mold Master, which has been getting a
lot of discussion on r.g.m.m. of late. Apparently, it's some sort of toy that
is used to melt metal, pour it into molds, and produce miniatures of various
sorts. The molds that I saw were for a pair of spaceships, and actually looked
half decent. Unfortunately, there were no photographs on the box, and there
was no way of telling the scale of the ships. Frankly, I can't imagine
something like this producing models of really good quality, but I've been
wrong before. Plus, if the metal is soft enough, it might be pretty easy to
modify the results and produce different ship classes. Has anybody heard
anything about this item?

Date sent:  19-NOV-1996 09:12:18
> (My apologies if this goes through twice; it seems that my e-mail is

That's the third one.

> At 09:12 AM 11/19/96 +0100, you wrote:

Very sorry, one and all. I'm going to go bang my head against the wall now.

> John Crimmins wrote:
Frankly, I
> can't imagine something like this producing models of really good
Has
> anybody heard anything about this item?

I've seen what you're describing. For casting my own minis I've used products
from Castolite and Synair and obtained fairly good results. Currently I am
using resin to cast my minis to produce lighter ships for mounting on bases.
If you wanted to cast metals, the molds work fine with lead and have casting
products available for additional metals and composites.