My SCA* shire has a Collegium** coming up and I volunteered to make little pewter charms that people can wear, to show they've paid to attend the collegium. I've never worked with pewter before but...well, this didn't turn out too bad :)

I made the mould out of soapstone (which you can see in the bottom photo), carved it "backwards", so that when I poured the pewter in, it came out facing the way I wanted it. Even while I was carving the soapstone, I'd use PlayDoh to test it out every so often, to make sure it looked good or if something needed changing.

Melted the pewter in a stainless steel pan on my stove and used a spoon to scoop up a little bit of it and poured it in the mould.

It still needs some work because the charms are still on the thick side. But still, not a bad attempt :)

Now...just to figure out how to cut around the figure! O.o;;

*SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism - re-creating history for the fun of it! :) To read up more about it, go here: http://www.sca.org
**Collegium is a bunch of classes based on SCA hobbies and interests