How To Cast Miniatures With Hot Glue (Cheap and Easy)

Id use a blue stuff mold instead. Easy to use, reusable and gives good detail.

I wonder about using candle wax... for the mould, and hot glue for the model

Hardened Hot Glue takes acrylic paint very well -- no primer needed. I've made a number of terrain pieces using it, based on DM Scotty's videos. I've only used it a couple of times for molding and injecting, but it does work. Great video, thanks for sharing. Cheers!

Try it with resin

I found that pushing the miniature into the glue rather than pouring it on top works better to preserve detail. I would also recommend making complex minis in two halves and sanding then gluing the two together. However, as far as Warhammer stuff is concerned, I love to use hot glue drops as wax seals. Just find something with text to transfer apply a drop of glue and stamp the glue.

One of my favorites is to make little spoof purity seals for templars with LEGO logos on them. Albeit they do tend to be mirror images.

Fucking liar you owe me three korn berserker bodies asshole! Yah thanks for warning people the fuckers can shrink and warp out of place doushebag!! Go fuck yourself.

That sarcophagus is literally my favorite miniature or all time. This game got me into D&D

I will never buy any more weapons, just gonna dupe them all.

have you tried using disolved sprue ? im making minis with disolved sprue but i havent tried casting , i should try this out

Would this work for action figure heads?

This would be a good way to make corpses to decorate miniatures!

Gotta be honest it would be cheaper to just buy blue stuff for the molds and use miliput for the bits/models. Results are also heaps better that way.

You can get 8 bars of reusable and remoldable blue stuff for about 10 euros and a pack of miliput goes for about 4 if you're not picky about the colour, which you shouldn't be since you're priming and painting over it anyway.

very helpful, I lost a leg to one of my dragon ogres and this video was a quick and easy fix

use wax paper not foam board. it peels off of hot glue really easily and leaves no residue

Wait so are the models also made of hot glue?

wait, what oil ?

Keep a bowl of ice/cold water beside you while you work with hot glue. If you get hot glue on your hand, submerge it in the cold water immediately and you will not receive a burn. :)

Perfect way to make Army Men molds cheaply and easily. Thank you for this information.

try using blue stuff for the mould and a 1:1 mix of milliput/greenstuff for the recast you will get a much better finish. this method will do for terrain though

I remember getting obsessed with making moulds etc in the late 90's and actually tried this method!
I remember getting some REALLY good results with certain types of miniatures.
You did a great job here! Liked and subbed! :)

What kind of paint is best for the hot glue? Will acrylics rub off?

look up green stuff moulding. The heat and glue doesn't seem to get fine detail. Might be ok for moulds. Then you can buy epoxy putty that is similar to green stuff or just use green stuff. You can put holes on one part of the mould so it lines up with the other one.

Nice idea Death.

Can i do this with lego parts or will it be ruined

Wanting to make some hot toys ironman head casts.... really happy I found this video.

Do not do that with minis like w40k, the heat will greatly damage the model, use clay as the mold

After you replicate your figures, you prolly would want to wash off the oil with soap so will that wear off the paint? Besides this doubt, I find this as an amazing idea!

Can I do this with regular super glue??

Very interesting, I will have to try this!

Very interesting and useful

looks great! For the 2 part mold, I'd probably puddle glue in a little container and stuff the first half down on to that after putting glue on the first half to remove air bubbles

Looking good my man, keep up the good work!