Troop Assembly

So, the parts Im going to use are chopped, filed and ready in what looks like a bunch of grey marines after they met a thousand genestealers.

So my first step is to sort these into models. I generally look at legs and the way the toes are pointing. that gives me a good idea to what the model is doing. Is he leaning back or in action moving forward etc. Then I’ll see what body I want to go with those legs. Then what weapons will it be having to suit that pose. finally, the head. Id usually choose the head with no helmet for any special character. In this case, the one with the power fist. Once this is done, I have them all lined up and ready to assemble (using plastic cement).

It was then disaster struck! I was looking over a few pots of paint deciding what I needed to replace when I dropped it. It was like a cannon strike over the miniatures who were at best, unprepared! I lost one head and one arm to the garage floor, never to be seen again. But, all was not lost, as I had used the Black Templar upgrade kit, I just found some replacements from the regular marine sprues. Phew!

But next, we had a bit of chopping and changing to do. I knew I was two bolt pistols short and also I needed an arm for my melta gun. First was the bolt pistols. I used one from the regular SM box so that was good, next I needed to make one. I done this by chopping a regular bolter off a hand and then adding the bolt pistol to it instead.

I had to do the same thing for my melta gun.

Next I chopped off the pistol grip and file the area down. Then take a bolter arm and chop off the bolter and again file the area down.

Then its just a matter of gluing the two parts together.  Once this was done and dried, I drilled the end of the melta gun with the pin vice ( I found the smaller one!).  so rather than have a flat end, it looks like this:  (I plan to do this with all the weapons).

Once I had these extra parts done. I’ve started assembly. First is glueing the two halfs of the chest together. Leave them for an hour and then add them to the legs. At this point, I check which way the model should be facing in general. Again these are left for an hour or more. This is where I left these for now.

~ by JawD on April 26, 2008.