How Models are Made: Injection Molding Hard Plastic Sprues - HIPS Polystyrene Minis.
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2022
- THIS is how hard plastic sprues are manufactured for models and minis! Archon Studio produces models for their own Dungeons and Lasers and Rampart lines. They also manufacture minis for Conquest, Idols of Torment, Gale Force Nine, The Army Painter, Masters of the Universe, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Wolfenstein, and more!
HUGE thanks to Jarek and the rest of the team at Archon Studio for letting us see how this stuff works :-)
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Disclosure: Some of the plastic sprues which appear in this video were sent to me as review stock. Others were purchased by me at msrp.
It's so awesome that they were willing to work with goobs and give us a behind the scenes and how the sprues are made super interesting tbh
Right? we very much appreciate learning about the secret sauce! :-)
Yeah! It's great for everyone involved, we get to see something really interesting and they get som very good marketing.
Really interesting and informative - thanks for sharing!
As someone who works as a injection moulding engineer I got to say that its absolutely insane and hard to make those perfect there's a lot of issue with machines, material and just hard work to make the product perfect so I can tell you those guys are doing a great job and I wish I worked for them could have some extra bits for free XD
These folks are indeed super talented! and hehehe, yeah if I was there those "reject" sprues wouldn't be ground down until after I had taken all the bits!
Would you know if it is even possible to make a mold as detailed as a mini on a manual mill machine? Was that ever done before CNC?
@@greysky1252 well I have seen many Molds before and they are very detailed ususaly done by machinery basicly drilled into the big block of Stell so im sure it was done before considering a lot of plastic stuff you have at your house was done the same way its still awsome and very hard to make it running perfectly
@@greysky1252 Yes, quite often in the past, but done with pantograph milling machines - similar to how US currency coin dies are made - using 2x or 3x or 4x size masters.
As an injection molding processor for over 30 years. I am impressed with the dimensional stability of their sprues. There are a lot of variables that can throw off the shrink rate of the plastic and effect multipart models.
Archon are absolute champs. So thankful for their partnership to help me achieve what is a pretty unsurmountable task for some dude that just crafts things on the internet.
100% It was an absolute blast to talk with our new buddies over at archon studios. :-)
@Black Magic Craft you are the reason I own their stuff. Brent, thanks for this video. Your science and documentary videos are my favorite on your channel. ❤️
Really a fascinating look behind the curtain! I wish GW had done something like this!
@@jodyovsiew3671 Reaper used to. I'm not sure if it's still up but they showed off their spin casting for pewter.
@@jodyovsiew3671 GW could make a whole documentary series, for the whole process from concept to getting it customers.
28 years in injection molding. I'm a process engineer. Just a note: the "sprue" is the initial part that is shot. Then the "runner", is the rest that fill in the parts. I do this all day, every day. Good video
You really outdid yourself this time Goobs. As someone who loves shows like "How It's Made" and "Unwrapped", this was an amazing video! 🤘🖤
thanks so much! this was a fun one :-)
I mean this is the nicest way possible Brent. Between your normal tone and cadence while narrating, and the educational and entertaining field trip to a factory… This is like the most awesome episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood EVER!
hehehehehe, that was the goal, thank you! :-)
I'm a machinist for a living, Warhammer figurines were something regularly in the house from my younger brother but we were both pretty nerdy 🤓 and I really appreciated the factory tour portion because I've always been curious what type of equipment they were using to do micro mold machining. Excellent video! I really appreciated the mold designer explaining how they lay out the figures with various rules to the layout I've never seen that covered before and it was fascinating. Minor thing- the tools they are using to create your molds are not drills, they're called endmills. They are milling cutters that can cut in straight lines in any direction. Drills can only make holes 🤓
Nice! Yeah this stuff is so fun to learn about, whether you have some background knowledge already or not. Such a cool collection of talents and machinery. :-) ahhh, endmills... live and learn ;-)
7:30 Props to him for being so open to sharing how they managed to make a better product. Im sure a lot of other people would have been super secretive and called it a "trade secret"
This is one of the coolest miniature videos I've ever watched!
It's one of my favorites that I've ever made! Thanks for watching :-)
Something I really appreciate about your channel is that I'm entertained, but also, I learn each time. Whether that be about some kind of painting skill, the mentality of painting and hobby time, or the nuts and bolts of production. I really appreciate your efforts!
I appreciate you too! This is one I'd been wanting to make (or at least watch) for a long time, I'm glad Archon Studio was willing to help out!! :-)
I really appreciate this close look. I study the history of plastics and molding and honestly it is incredibly difficult to find good "behind the scenes" looks at this sort of thing. Thanks!
I wish there was more of this stuff out there, it's so interesting! I'm glad we were able to make this video at least :-)
Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing.
Sidenote: For anyone else curious about that stylus device being used at 1:18 , I believe it's called the Geomagic Touch.
This is one of the most interesting videos I've seen this year.
Came here to make this same comment!
Ya, this was interesting, especially if you really didn’t know anything about how these models are made. Nice work!
I used to work industrial maintenance for plastic injection molding, you gave a solid explanation of how the mechanisms work of the overall process!
phew! Ok good, thanks for the confirmation!! :-) This stuff is really cool, I enjoyed learning about it
The tv show "How Its Made" was one of my favorites, and I could watch episode after episode for hours on end in rapt fascination. This could easily have been part of an episode of that show and I was no less fascinated by it. Thanks so much for sharing it!
I’m overwhelmed with all the clipping and glueing of these fiddly parts. The models are awesome and they were super inexpensive.
That was a cool peek behind the scenes. Makes me appreciate the magic bandai uses for their multi-coloured/multi-opacity gunpla sprues even more
Bandai also has a promo video that briefly shows the inside of their factory. Everyone who's interested in the process should also check it out.
Along with the tolerances of gunpla which almost reach the level of lego, and stuff like ms joint
Always wanted to see a video like this ! Literally one of the most interesting hobby videos I’ve ever seen. This is one of those things as a hobbyist that you wonder about a lot !
right on! I'm glad I got the chance to make this video, I'd been looking for one to watch myself for a while now :-)
That's pretty cool! Great to see behind the scenes.
Love all the Archon minis and D&L. Some amazing minis coming out of there. Can't wait to receive the Encounters terrain.
Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this video and thank you Brent for bringing this to us! I have always wished for such an extensive look into how the good stuff is made.
thanks for watchin! and for real, thanks to everyone at archon who helped with this video :-)
How it's made, for miniatures, with Brent's voice. That's a nice start of the weekend.
Have a great weekend! :-)
My family used to run a CNC workshop in our case it was brass fittings (gas lines etc) so just the sounds of the workshop even without seeing the machines immediately brings back memories.
In my case it was putting millions of fittings, O rings & nuts together. :P
ahhhh, memories 🙂 Several folks have commented about the machine sounds, it seems to be a mixture of good memories and stress dreams hehehehe
As a proud owner of several kickstarter-worth of their terrain and miniatures, I am very happy to see You cooperating with them!
BTW, their quality is very good to excellent, and one can clearly see the progress in quality over time and editions as well.
heck yeah!! :-)
Incredible video. Love to see behind the scenes stuff like this because often certain companies often try to be quite secretive about their processes.
Great video, Brent! A big thank you to Archon Studios for letting us see behind the scenes!
As a production cost analyst, this video gives an awesome insight into the overhead and materials cost of plastic miniatures. Thank you so very much for this.
yeah! It's really cool to see this stuff on the ground-level to understand what goes into these products :-)
This was super interesting. Thanks for making the video and to Archon for allowing you a peak inside the process.
So cool! This is so interesting to me, I love it when you get technical and show us behind the scenes of the hobby industry.
so cool for me too! :-) I've gotta wheedle my way into more secret places now :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies Secret Undercover Agent Brent away!
They do great work! I design plastic parts, and I cannot imagine how tough it must be to try to account for draft and undercuts on models like this. In my industry, you CNC the mold, but handpolish the core and cavity features, or etch them with textures. Having to actually CNC every detail with no follow-up polishing is insane, and I'm not surprised one mold half takes nine days of machining time. Incredible work everyone!
This was fantastic! Thanks for the peek behind the scenes. Fascinating stuff, Mr. Goobertown!
Awesome video! Very fascinating seeing all the machinery and processes in action. Big respect to Archon Studios for sharing their time with you & us!
The clear plastic work-around is very clever. Love it
This was super cool. Archon studios has been my favorite company to get models from since the first Dungeons & Lasers Kickstarter -- the care they put into runner placement makes assembling them so nice.
Agreed! the gate positions for those walls sprues works out pretty dang well! :-)
Brilliant video, thanks for this change from the norm, great that they actually showed how it's done. Well done to you and the company.
It is so good to see the process behind the making of the amazingly detailed models. Thank you for the tour, both educational and entertaining.
SO interesting Brent! Thanks for sharing this tour with the rest of us! So much about the world of mini's I never even thought about! Thanks for bringing it to every ones attention!
this is pretty cool, eh? :-) we're lucky that archon studio was willing to show us around!!!
I love these behind the scenes videos and to see how things are done. Well done ans thanks to everyone who played their part in that video!
agreed, big thanks to everyone who was in the video... whether they knew they were in it or not ;-)
Always love your deep-dives into the science and engineering that goes into the hobby. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for making all these videos, and thanks for archon for sharing this with the community! It's great to learn more about the tools and martials in the hobby and no one has content even close to this! Thank you!
This is fascinating. I have always wondered exactly how injected plastic molding worked for polystyrene sprues. I had no idea that the injection happened so fast with that much pressure. Jarek's explanation on sprue design principles was super interesting as well. Great video all around.
This was neat, thank you guys for putting this together for us.
it was a pleasure! thanks for watching :-)
What a fascinating video! I’ve always wondered what it was like behind the scenes at some of these companies that manufacture our favorite minis for our favorite games. Thank you! ❤
Fascinating! Thanks for revealing this part of our hobby!
As someone who 3d prints a ton but HATES superglue, polystyrine is such a wonderful material
right? printing is cool in its own way tho :-)
This is a great video to show the production side of the hobby, I've watched other videos about injection molding but it's nice to see one from the miniatures perspective.
It's so cool! thanks for watching :-)
This was amazing to watch. Thank you very much for sharing!
We have all seen videos about injection moulding but this one stands out. This was such an in depth coverage and I liked seeing the work they do just to design the sprues. Very well done I really enjoyed the video.
Archon Studio is our national treasure :)
hehehehe absolutely!
Swietny material. Pozdrawiam cala ekipe. Najwyzsza jakosc, to gwarancja sukcesu.
Awesome video man
Thankyou to both yourself and the company for the insights
Now that was cool! I learned some new stuff today. Thanks Archon for the peak inside the factory and thnx brent for making these kinds of things happen!
This is some 1990's Discovery Channel grade content! Love it
That was super interesting! Thanks a lot to you and the CEO of Archon for this guided tour! It is really impressive to see the amount of engineering and equipment that goes into making our plastic models. Next video, how resin models are made?!? 😅😁
Very interesting peek at the manufacturing process! Thank you Brent.
Really amazing look at how these miniatures are made! This channel really does an amazing job of making videos about the hobby that I have never really seen before. I can't wait to see what Archon Studio does in the future.
hey thanks broski! 🙂 Yeah this stuff is super cool to see
This is a great video. Pretty cool to see that so much can be recycled.
Thanks Brent, a wonderful look into the manufacturing process . Thank you
Marvelous! Thanks to Archon for this sneak peak! And thank you for sharing this with us!
Brent, your in-depth videos are so good! That even my father who is not even close a miniature enthusiast, but is a engineer, loves to listen to all the information you give! Thank you so much in behalf of the Carvalho's father and son geeking moments xD
hehehehe, have a great weekend you two! :-)
As someone who aspire to one day start a miniature business, this video is more important than you'd think
Nice! Hopefully there's some good tidbits in there :-)
I especially like it when you give your technical-scientific touch to the channel. I think it's your personal brand within the content creators of the hobby and someone covering that space is really appreciated. Keep it up!!
This is great! What a wonderful opportunity to share this whole process!
Awesome video, love behind the scenes stuff like this. Archon seems like a pretty cool company to let us peek behind the curtain like this. Had no idea it took that long to CNC the molds - I knew they were expensive, but a whole week of tooling for just one half is crazy. Bunch of hard working, talented people over there!
Right? I was super impressed by their skills and the whole setup. Awesome stuff :-)
Whole week for tooling half of mold in aluminum. That's cheaper and quicker option in comparison to milling them in steel.
@@MrKuncol Gameshop moulds are made in P20 tool steel using cutters down to 0.075mm diameter. Off the scale more difficult to make compared to easy to machine alumjniun with the trade off being much greater detail and longer lasting tooling, aluminium isn't strong enough to accept detail this fine and would fail.
@@Brit_Toolmaker what about bandai?
@@MrKuncol most use steel as they will get over 30 years potentially out of the moulds. It increases the initial costs, but over the expected lifetime of the tooling that is generally fine. I believe gw use steel too. The various model railway companies use steel and don't use sprue layouts and typically mould the body in one go with swappable parts of the mould to allow for different variations, plus things like etched metal details added after assembly.
Awesome and informative video, shows just how much work (and money) goes into making just one sprue. I'm really proud to be Polish and to see a Polish company like Archon Studio grow, do it right and stay in touch with their growing fanbase gives me a warm feeling in the heart 💚
The box art that you've done for archon studio releases is absolutely incredible 🙂
@@GoobertownHobbies thank You Brent :)
LOVE this video! It was really cool to see how modern manufacturing works for this kind of product, and cool to see that the defects can be reused!
This was an absolutely fantastic look at how they make plastic sprues. Great work with this video 👍🏻
Brent cracks me up when he does the shots of himself looking in awe at sprues and models 😅.
Love this channel!
hehehehehe, thanks for watchin! :-)
I think you capture the spirit of the 90s Space Crusade and Hero Quest TV ad's 👌
I've actually been kinda craving a video like this as im always interested in how things are made. A few of my searches have come up empty handed so when I happened to stumble across this video I was very happy indeed!! Thanks for taking the time to make this video!! It was very interesting to see how they put it all together for us!!
hehehe, that's why we made this video! I wanted to see one of them too :-) thanks for watching!
@@GoobertownHobbies Brent, you're a legend my friend. Highly doubt the big boys over at GW would ever let something like this happen, so good on Archon for letting us see this amazing process!
@@GoobertownHobbies I just learned you'll be on Monuments Twitch stream tonight, bonus 😎 sounds like you've got some cool shit going!
@@chaoticpainting1507 yesssssss 🙂
Great video Brent. Thanks for sharing with us.
This is amazing and I have so much love for the people that make these products now!
Very cool! I've heard a lot of how this works before but seeing it really puts it into perspective. This had the look and feel of the "How It's Made" show that used to be on Discovery Channel. Really enjoyed it.
right on! yeah this stuff is fascinating :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies Absolutely. Had to watch it again with my sons. They loooved it.
This is one of the best hobby videos I've seen yet! I've always wanted to see all the various stages in model production. So glad you got to visit! I wish they would give such tours at Warhammer World in Nottingham, England. Maybe I'll ask next time I visit...
oh they don't let you in, you gotta sneak in! good luck! ;-)
Yeah gw is never going to allow that sadly. To them it is trade secrets.
This was a video that made me SMILE wide to see! (Midway through it now.)
I LOVE how it is made type videos. So thanks so much for doing the work to get this one done!
hehehehe, this was a really fun one to make :-)
Always wondered about this process, thank you for the informative behind the scenes view!!
excellent video, very interesting ! Thanks Brent, do not hesitate to do more in the futur ! And huge thanks to Archon Studio too !
I worked in an injection moulding factory one summer when I was at Uni 25 years ago so this brought back some memories. I'm glad other people can see the process and how expensive the upfront costs are. I've never seen how sprues were designed so that was great to see.
Shame Wizkids didn't use Archon for their Framework series as their sprues were surprisingly sparse compared to Archon and GW. (The price of those Kobolds!)
I'd love to see some Archon Studio kobolds! ;-)
Wow, this is super cool. I really like to see how stuff I use is made. Thanks Brent for showing us this factory.
Thanks for sharing the manufacturing process for most, if not, all of the miniatures we purchase for all of the tabletop gaming systems. I greatly appreciate all of the work, and expense, that goes into it.
Embrace the science video! I rate this the same as UA-cam 10/10! Course mines a bit more positive than them but hey at least they are trying..... ;)
“You can never have too many peasants trapped in purgatory” - Goobertown 🤝 late stage capitalism 😉😂😂🤣
As someone whose career is in manufacturing, this video is awesome! I love seeing these kind of machines.
it's super cool stuff 🙂
As a CNC machinist, this was the video I've been waiting for! Thank you so much Brent!
Seeing the sprues made just reminds one how much a ripoff GW's prices are.
Heh, the FIRST sprue takes a whole lot of work... but... yeah... the efficiency is pretty sweet once it gets goin
@@GoobertownHobbies Exactly. With the volume GW moves compared to smaller manufacturers is nearly astronomical so one would think they could be a little more lax on the prices, but nope they go the other way with it and keep their bar the highest.
It's amazing to see some BTS of how the miniatures we love are made! Thank you for making videos like this. I love learning these sort of things thru your videos.
this was fun for me to learn too! :-)
great video ! so happy to learn about the process and see a company like this doing well.
Amazing video! Thanks for the tour
Wow thanks for sharing. Especially the engraving of molds and how they age.
Great video, thank you for making it. I love getting an insight into the manufacturing process, you've earned my sub!
Very interesting process, thanks for the tour.
Totally agree with your closing words: Thanks for sharing these technical insights!
Thanks for doing this video. I've really always wanted to go into a miniature manufacturing facility and see the work put into these things. I've had a lot of exposure to the automotive side of plastic molding, but that's for parts the size of a sprue and there's still incredible detail in them (especially the reflectors of lights). Thank you very much from a happy mechanical engineer.
Great video huge thank you to you and the team over at Archon Studios for allowing the insight into their world.
heck yeah! I'm glad they showed us around :-)
this was awesome to see...very unique and amazing content and a peak behind the scenes. Also glad to check out the black magic craft line.
Really cool educational video on the process! Love seeing how our favorite toys are made, and it demystifies some aspects of the manufacturing process
100%, so cool to see! :-)
Great and very interesting video. I always wondered how the molds are design and made. Thank you for showing us.
I am even more happy that i baked their Kickstarter now. Thanks for sharing this Video.
This is very informative! I absolutely love having a peek behind the screens, thanks!
This answered a bunch of questions I had about this process, thanks!
Thanks for the video! Fascinating process!