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Has anyone resisted the urge to whip the 18" red measuring stick that came in the last edition starter box? Both of mine have a permanent curve in it now!

gealgain wrote:
Has anyone resisted the urge to whip the 18" red measuring stick that came in the last edition starter box? Both of mine have a permanent curve in it now!

They came straight?

gealgain wrote:
Has anyone resisted the urge to whip the 18" red measuring stick that came in the last edition starter box? Both of mine have a permanent curve in it now!

I've never seen a straight one. Also, mine in are in backpack, and are curved from that.

Bad news: Old overexpensive knife for 12.50€ is OOP in Europe and North America. New knife will be 20€, more than three times as much as an X-Acto knife.
Old drill also gone, as is old saw.

 Blacksails wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

I've got the plastic red and black one with the Aquila on the side.

The one I had was in some sort of overpowered super inch.

Wait, or was it the whippy stick?

I can't remember now.

Whippy Sticks are awesome. My cat still plays with them.

The only thing missing is GW flavored patented pox paste.

Don't buy GW's crappy tools. Buy a good set and it will last you a lifetime without having to worry about the handles crapping out, splitting, or falling apart.

Lowest quality denominator- GW going into the cheaply made, expensively priced hhhobby tools business.

Here is a great place on the web that discusses what one needs for tools. No gak, either, the guy is a master of the craft.

http://www.matakishi.com/

 Blacksails wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

I've got the plastic red and black one with the Aquila on the side.

The one I had was in some sort of overpowered super inch.

Wait, or was it the whippy stick?

I can't remember now.

Whippy sticks (or as they used to be called before pre-measuring was allowed: "Cheater Sticks") were pretty dead on IIRC.


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 Grot 6 wrote:
The only thing missing is GW flavored patented pox paste.

Don't buy GW's crappy tools. Buy a good set and it will last you a lifetime without having to worry about the handles crapping out, splitting, or falling apart.

Lowest quality denominator- GW going into the cheaply made, expensively priced hhhobby tools business.

Here is a great place on the web that discusses what one needs for tools. No gak, either, the guy is a master of the craft.

http://www.matakishi.com/

I've never had GW's tools give me issues. Worst is the clippers and I haven't really seen anything in stores that does the same thing. Even then the clippers aren't so bad that they actually cause any real issues.

Speaking of tools, does anyone have recommendations for what I used to make the holes for magnetizing Leman Russ weapon options? I usually use an xacto knife, but I'm looking into something nicer and easier. I already have the magnets, just need something to drill the holes.

 ultimentra wrote:
Speaking of tools, does anyone have recommendations for what I used to make the holes for magnetizing Leman Russ weapon options? I usually use an xacto knife, but I'm looking into something nicer and easier. I already have the magnets, just need something to drill the holes.

Pine vise and a bit -slightly- larger or equal to the diameter of the magnet will do the trick.

With these tools, you can Forge- a- Narrative as you assemble and convert models.

General Hobbs wrote:
With these tools, you can Forge- a- Narrative as you assemble and convert models.

Coming this Fall is a new book detailing how to Forge A Narrative™ with you the new Forge Your FineModels™ book! Inside will be plenty of Finedetails™ for Forging Your Models™! Additionally Games Workshop™ will be selling it's new FineHobby FineKit™ made completely out of Finematerials™ such as Fineplastic™ and Finealuminum™. Additonally the new Games Workshop™ only currency, Finepounds™ will be available for exchange at the rate of 1 Finepound™ for very three Pounds you exchange. Finepounds™ will be your new Games Workshop™ approved means of buying the latest Finekits™ to include Fineterrain™ and Finemodels™!

All questions should be directed at your nearest available Games Workshop™ Finestore™ or the FineCustomer™ Fineservice™ by Finephone™ or by Finemail™.

You forgot the contact FineMail address:

FineQuiries@finemail.trademark.co.uk

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
You forgot the contact FineMail address:

FineQuiries@finemail.trademark.co.uk

I couldn't find it because I wasn't using my FineBrowser™ to view the FineSite™ so I could see the FineContacts™.

I hope you all appreciate how hard it is to put that ™ in via phone.

I have to say the GW scalpel blade is one I favour - the screw hold design makes it a lot safer and easier to fit new blades to than many regular ones you can get on the market which use a snap-fit hold (which is nightmarishly scary to take blades on and off with).

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Worst is the clippers and I haven't really seen anything in stores that does the same thing. Even then the clippers aren't so bad that they actually cause any real issues.

I often wonder where people have to live in order to say such things.

Sprue cutters, flush cutters and the like are available in every Radio Shack, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, Home Depot, Lowes and any hobby store that is an actual hobby store and not just a GW store. Xuron makes excellent ones - but you can also get flush cutters from Klein tools, Excel, Testors and generics from Harbor Freight and Widget's supply.

Even the best case scenario, GW's tools are comparable to other products. However, unless you live above a GW store, you will pass three or four other stores on the way there which sell tools of equal or better quality for less.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I'll agree with that

the only true bit of junk in their tools has to be the paint 'sprayer' (aka blocky the blocky thing)

I use my spray gun all the time. Hook it up to a compressor and it is a decent siphon feed, single action airbrush. For simple or quick base coating or priming it is less hassle than hooking up a more expensive dual action airbrush as it is much faster to clean and you don't have to worry about damaging it.

Shouldn't the knife have fleshbane?

 Sean_OBrien wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Worst is the clippers and I haven't really seen anything in stores that does the same thing. Even then the clippers aren't so bad that they actually cause any real issues.

I often wonder where people have to live in order to say such things.

Sprue cutters, flush cutters and the like are available in every Radio Shack, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, Home Depot, Lowes and any hobby store that is an actual hobby store and not just a GW store. Xuron makes excellent ones - but you can also get flush cutters from Klein tools, Excel, Testors and generics from Harbor Freight and Widget's supply.

Even the best case scenario, GW's tools are comparable to other products. However, unless you live above a GW store, you will pass three or four other stores on the way there which sell tools of equal or better quality for less.

I live in basically Nowhere, Montana (aka, not Missoula our largest city). I've tried the Lowes and Home Depot we have here but they only seem to carry large wire cutters, nothing as fine as sprue cutters. I don't think we have a Radio Shack, I know we don't have a Hobby Lobby, nor a Michaels (we do have a Joann's but good luck finding anything in there). And the only hobby store outside of my FLGS caters to airplanes and trains and I didn't see any there either.

And for some reason Wal*Mart only has the knives next to their model kits.


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 timetowaste85 wrote:
Shouldn't the knife have fleshbane?

It does, it just won't tell you that it does until it's too late. Knives are totally WAAC.

I rather go for these the rest i buy at the Japanese equivalent of a hardware store.
http://www.tamiyausa.com/items/tools-amp-accessories-80/tools-74000

 ClockworkZion wrote:
And the only hobby store outside of my FLGS caters to airplanes and trains and I didn't see any there either.

They will have Xuron and Zona tools - unless they don't want anyone to actually do anything with their kits...but that is GW's business plan. Those are a staple of model railroading and model airplane building, and I haven't seen a store in 30 years that didn't carry them.

HD and Lowes generally will have them in the Electrical Departments as opposed to tools - stuff like this:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-5-in-Lightweight-Flush-Cutter-D275-5/100647983

If you have a HD and a Lowes - there has to be a Radio Shack in town. Just the way it is here in the States. Somewhere behind all the cell phones, you should find their soldering and electronics tools and something like this:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3932532&clickid=prod_cs

Very comfortable handle with a nice flush grind on the cutting blades.

Should also be able to find a selection of wire gauge drill bits there as you use them for drilling out the holes on printed circuit cards for the leads of electronics to pop through. I know that is where I picked up a lot of my tools from for years before the internet, as almost every town that had a stop light has a Radio Shack.

Radio Shack is closing down hundreds of its stores....

General Hobbs wrote:


Radio Shack is closing down hundreds of its stores....

And keeping open over 4000 stores, more stores than Walmart has...and you can barely move without tripping over a Walmart.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
(we do have a Joann's but good luck finding anything in there).

Hey - don't knock JoAnn’s - I've been in there a few times and they actually have a surprisingly amount of useful hobby goodness. You'd be surprised.

I've never had a problem with GW tools. They do tend to ask me a lot of questions when I walk into a store though.

The whipstick is perfect for poking open a semi-clogged drain. I keep mine over the bathroom mirror.

Electronics (component) stores have good amount of small tools. Mandatory part when going to another town is breezing through all the HW/electronics/hobby stores, just to see if they have some tools I haven't seen before

 -Loki- wrote:
I've never had a problem with GW tools. They do tend to ask me a lot of questions when I walk into a store though.

*rimshot*

 Blacksails wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

I've got the plastic red and black one with the Aquila on the side.

The one I had was in some sort of overpowered super inch.

Wait, or was it the whippy stick?

I can't remember now.

Great. And now I am off to write "50 shades of codex grey"...

First WD confirmation:

anonymous source on Faeit 212 wrote:Upcoming white dwarf is dedicated to a new hobby kit from GW. The kit will come in at $150 US and has a file, clippers, modeling knife, moulding line knife, hand drill and comes in a special foldout canvas case.

The rest of the dwarf features an extended Hobbit battle report where they cover all of the battle scenarios from an unexpected journey.

What I found most interesting was the tag line for White Dwarf #13:
If you go out to the woods today... ...you'll be in for a big surprise.

$150 for.. that?
Seriously?

Here a first pic:


Oh ... wait, that's only 30$
For that price you only get the GW knife