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[plasmapulse]

A site with Schneider pics, small ones, but better than the b&w drawings.
http://www.selvatime.nl/default.php?cPath=KunstHandWerk&sPath=Zinngie%DF-Formen%20Schneider

That supplier is very expensive and probably buys from the german supplier anyway.

I got his (the german suppliers) email answer;
- Use some wood to cover the holes at the bottom.
- Also, not all the molds pictures online are available. Same goes for the printed catalog; ask what you want and he'll tell you what he's got.

When I do some casting, I'll show off the results. It's on my to-do-list/pile

 

[kilted vampire]

A site with Schneider pics, small ones, but better than the b&w drawings.
http://www.selvatime.nl/default.php?cPath=KunstHandWerk&sPath=Zinngie%DF-Formen%20Schneider

That supplier is very expensive and probably buys from the german supplier anyway.

I got his (the german suppliers) email answer;
- Use some wood to cover the holes at the bottom.
- Also, not all the molds pictures online are available. Same goes for the printed catalog; ask what you want and he'll tell you what he's got.

When I do some casting, I'll show off the results. It's on my to-do-list/pile

I am looking forward to seeing the fruits of your labors.

 

[Gneisenau]

When my grandpa and I started using the Schneider molds (the original ones from a billion years ago), we heated them. I know through painful experience that it doesn't work with the remade Castings molds made of Zymak but using a hot plate to at least keep these "warm" ought to do... assuming they are steel. Also, we cast on an old cabinet door. It was perfect. Flat bases and by using the molds warm, there were no flow problems.

 

[richoldlion]

The Dunken Company (www.dunken.com ) can make custom molds from your miniatures.

The orginals have to be able to withstand 350 degrees F. and 20 tons of pressure. A simple vulcanized rubber mold costs $35, plus shipping.


Dunken, sells molds to make toy soldiers/military miniatures, chess sets, nativity sets, etc.
It has the best prices for Prince August molds.

Rich Campbell, Owner

p.s. I have one of the largest collections of antique metal toy casting molds and can make vulcanized rubber molds for almost any figure. I also have many "extra molds" for sale. I can also answer almost any question regarding casting problems.

Sorry for the long post.

 

[theBaron]

A site with Schneider pics, small ones, but better than the b&w drawings.
http://www.selvatime.nl/default.php?cPath=KunstHandWerk&sPath=Zinngie%DF-Formen%20Schneider

That supplier is very expensive and probably buys from the german supplier anyway.

I got his (the german suppliers) email answer;
- Use some wood to cover the holes at the bottom.
- Also, not all the molds pictures online are available. Same goes for the printed catalog; ask what you want and he'll tell you what he's got.

When I do some casting, I'll show off the results. It's on my to-do-list/pile

Hi, Plasmapulse, who is the German maker of the molds? I ask because I used to get them from Herr Höhmann in Cassel, but it's been over 10 years since I bought any, and I recall when we last spoke that he had hoped his son would take over the business, but he wasn't optimistic. He may have passed away, in the meantime.

He made the whole Schneider catalog, and also some of the molds by Ideal, like their knights.

If someone is still making them, I may have to pick up some of the ones I don't have.

Prost!
Brad

 

[theBaron]

As far as commissioning molds is concerned, I'd like to suggest another maker, too, and that's RLJ Casting, Bob Lewis, prop. He goes to some of the shows here in the East Coast, makes molds and also his own figures. He's also a Civil War re-enactor.

He doesn't have a website, but the contact info is:

Rlj Casting
246 Shadle Rd
Titusville, PA 16354
814-827-1862

He's made a lot of molds for me, and I recommend him highly.

Dunken is good, too, I bought all my Prins August molds from them.

Prost!
Brad

 

[kilted vampire]

Brad,

Are you talking about the Zinnfiguren molds? Somewhere I have the original packaging and can find it. There is a US seller somewhere around here.

http://www.zinnfiguren-hofmann.de/ Think the Hohmann people are still in business

 

[theBaron]

Hi, KV, do mean the Nurnberger Meisterzinn series?

The ones I have are zinc alloy "reproductions", for want of a better word, of the original Schneider molds. I also have a couple of original bronze molds, too, the charging German infantryman and bugler in one mold, the charging doughboy, the Prussian cuirassier, and I think I may have the buffalo mold.

Höhmann made his molds, maybe as far back as the 60's. They are as good as the originals, for the machining and the precision of the fit.

There are modern copies of the Schneider molds sold here in the US, by Castings, Inc, for example (eg, the band figures), but the molds are not engineered as well, the details aren't as crisp, and as a result, the figures aren't as nice as ones you get from the German molds.

Prost!
Brad

 

[kilted vampire]

Hi, KV, do mean the Nurnberger Meisterzinn series?

The ones I have are zinc alloy "reproductions", for want of a better word, of the original Schneider molds. I also have a couple of original bronze molds, too, the charging German infantryman and bugler in one mold, the charging doughboy, the Prussian cuirassier, and I think I may have the buffalo mold.

Höhmann made his molds, maybe as far back as the 60's. They are as good as the originals, for the machining and the precision of the fit.

There are modern copies of the Schneider molds sold here in the US, by Castings, Inc, for example (eg, the band figures), but the molds are not engineered as well, the details aren't as crisp, and as a result, the figures aren't as nice as ones you get from the German molds.

Prost!
Brad

Yeah those are the ones. I bought some in Germany. That link has the same ones for sale. Just click on Moulds.

 

[plasmapulse]

http://www.zinnbleisoldaten.com

They have many moulds incl. schneider.

 

[bromhead]

The Dunken Company (www.dunken.com ) can make custom molds from your miniatures.

The orginals have to be able to withstand 350 degrees F. and 20 tons of pressure. A simple vulcanized rubber mold costs $35, plus shipping.


Dunken, sells molds to make toy soldiers/military miniatures, chess sets, nativity sets, etc.
It has the best prices for Prince August molds.

Rich Campbell, Owner

p.s. I have one of the largest collections of antique metal toy casting molds and can make vulcanized rubber molds for almost any figure. I also have many "extra molds" for sale. I can also answer almost any question regarding casting problems.

Sorry for the long post.

I have several vulcanized molds of each line,,I find prince august,later little army,,to be the best..my abilities to "do it myself" were challanged to seay the least,,studied at late friend Bill Holts mold making class ,his grade being I was as skilled as watching old people make love and I cleaned that up.