Tin soldiers

Back in the 70's, when parents still thought their children weren't complete morons and thus allowed them to play with potentially dangerous things, I was making tin soldiers. That involved melting metal and pouring it into a hard rubber mould. As you tended to have only a few moulds, you ended up making lots of identical tin soldiers. You could paint them or not, and you could play little tin soldier battles with them, having armies of identical clones. There was also a system to make tin item

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