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  • Do whitemetal minis ciontain lead?

    From Mike Smith@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 20 20:13:36 2020
    They used to. I know a lot these days are plastic but I know there are people out there using the old centricast machines (a disc shaped spinning mould used to produce copies of sculpted figures).

    Just curious

    Cheers

    Mike

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  • From JG@21:1/5 to Mike Smith on Mon Jan 4 14:19:55 2021
    On 21/04/2020 05:13, Mike Smith wrote:
    They used to. I know a lot these days are plastic but I know there are people out there using the old centricast machines (a disc shaped spinning mould used to produce copies of sculpted figures).

    Just curious

    Cheers

    Mike


    wouldn't white metal contain lead anyway? I asked Alternative Armies
    about it and they told me that theirs at least do contain lead.

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  • From theothermikesmith@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 2 15:43:21 2021
    On Monday, 4 January 2021 at 13:19:55 UTC, JG wrote:
    On 21/04/2020 05:13, Mike Smith wrote:
    They used to. I know a lot these days are plastic but I know there are people out there using the old centricast machines (a disc shaped spinning mould used to produce copies of sculpted figures).

    Just curious

    Cheers

    Mike

    wouldn't white metal contain lead anyway? I asked Alternative Armies
    about it and they told me that theirs at least do contain lead.
    Thanks for that - I make up toy soldier sets to give to kids and I needed some LRDG trucks but could only find white metal kits. Still haven't found a suitable replacement from the Matchbox/Revell set and Revell seem to be contracting in that area these
    days, pity.

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