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I own both the Squadron and Micromark seam scrapers and find the Micromark one to be the best. The Squadron one, as has been mentioned, is much more narrow and less comfortable to hold onto. I also found myself getting off-center with it and scraping somewhere besides the mold line.

The Micromark scraper is too big, though, for areas of very tight detail. For them I use two X-acto knives, one with a curved blade and one with the standard blade. I finish with a tri-grit sanding stick which has two polishing grits that I don't use and a 1200 grit that I do. I would love to find a sanding stick in all 1200 grit instead of one-third of a stick.

Anyone know the grit of the GW emery board?

No mention of Necrons? Sigh.

Zhrukal
Sorry to mention this again, but you can buy 1200 grade wet and dry paper which can be stuck to some support of choice with double sided tape

The advantage is that you can cut it to shape/size and have a flexible board or a rigid one, depending what you use.
An A4 sheet will last a while
I get various grades and make a sanding stick as and when required.

Also if you use that double sided padded mounting you have exactly what you would if you bought a sanding stick



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ps thanks for the mini review of the scrapers btw

As usual, lots of "crazy" Internet theories here about this. Here's an answer that's more plausible and more cynical at the same time.

There is only one reason these products are being released and it's the same as any other product they carry: to make money. It's a business and once again GW has realized there are useful hobby products out there that they don't sell and that a lot of their "Warhammer models are the only models I've ever built" customers are probably unaware of. A lot of their customers, especially the younger ones and their parents, will buy the stuff when they are at a GW store because it's one stop shopping. It's how they sell glue, Green Stuff, Woodland Scenics grass, snow and tress, tools such as modeling knives, etc. and at the markup they put on those items they are making good money for sure.

The rest of us lucky enough to have other sources and experienced enough to have more familiarity of those 3rd party hobby supplies fortunately have more choices.

Any more info on the WD contents? Or can they really fill all the pages with how awesome one product is? Where is the usable content for everyone? Sorry, BrookM, if I interrupt your 36 hour sleep

It's mostly Dreadfleet with the obligatory whats in the box, hobby articles, two bat-reps and rule breakdown. Jervis is being boring again, there's an army showcase on Ogres, three new scrolls of binding containing, surprise surprise three monsters from the Ogre range, Sisters of Battle get a trio of battle missions (Defend the Shrine, Recover the Relics & Purge the naughty person), a workshop on how to use the new tools on resin models and that's it.

Kanluwen wrote:
Wait, what?

How have subscribers not gotten their September issue yet?

You're right, the September issue came out in August, but the October issue should come out in Sept but it won't arrive at subscribers until Oct 10, a week and a half after it hits stores!

So you got me on a technicality, which doesn't invalidate my point in any way.

BrookM, could you post any pictures of the new tools?

Thanks

Ozymandias wrote:You're right, the September issue came out in August, but the October issue should come out in Sept but it won't arrive at subscribers until Oct 10, a week and a half after it hits stores!

So you got me on a technicality, which doesn't invalidate my point in any way.

GW marketing said, that they have to make sure that Dreadfleet is sold out before they officially make WD advertising for it

Two days ago I tweeted GW's Vox Caster account about how much I enjoyed this issue of WD and while they usually retweet such messages (any positive news is worth sharing with them), this one has been ignored, maybe because we're selling the mags before official release?

Only by 11 days, that's nothing
Changing the release schedule to have the release after GD UK didn't mean a thing.
Guess they are too busy to find the culprit and fire him.

My chain of stores, whom I'm not going to name, have been selling them nation wide since this Tuesday, go us?

If GW asks, just say you are German

Pfffft, no way, I'd like to see my boss take the fall but heh, I don't think they give a feth. They've cancelled magazines over lesser things before.

BrookM wrote:...& Purge the naughty person.

Any decent reference to Castle Anthrax?

So how much are they charging for a toothbrush?

Death By Monkeys wrote:

BrookM wrote:...& Purge the naughty person.

Any decent reference to Castle Anthrax?

Completely unintentional, how wicked of me.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:So how much are they charging for a toothbrush?

Just click the pic:
8.20 £ for the brush, 3.75 £ for the manicure set, 2.30 £ for the green ooze and 70£ for the whole toilet bag.

orc master wrote:i rather have em fix the issues with finecast ( remove finecast all together) .....

I lolled.

I think the tools are overpriced and I like the alternatives posted here in the thread, often gw will do things which I didn't know about and then I'll buy the superior product like the vallejo liquid filler. Seam filers are something I've been look for for awhile too. The most interesting tool is the games workshop toothbrush. If anybody out there has a sonicare toothbrush, my advice is to use an old worn out toohbrush head for the cleaning. sonicare cleans resin just as well as teeth!

Some more details about the Storm of Magic scrolls by poncho160 over at Warseer:

These are the options for all three creatures:

Thundertusk:
Spike tail - Adds 1 tail attack.
Icy breath - Gives the Thundertusk a strength 4 breath attack, that can not be used in the same turn as its other shooting attack.

Mournfang: Can be taken in packs of 2 - 8.

Vanguard - Gives them the vanguard special rule.

Thickhide - Gives them the scaly skin (5+) special rule.

Stonehorn:

Jaws of iron - Gives the Stonehorn a chomp attack with the multiple wounds (D3) special rule.

Mace tail - Gives the Stonehorn 1 tail attack at +1 strength.

The Thundertusk and Stonehorn are both cheaper than thier Army book equivilants too, probably because they do not have any riders.

Ozymandias wrote:So no one's mentioned the travesty of in-home subscribers getting their SEPTEMBER issue on October 10!?

What's the point of subscribing to WD again?

You used to be able to get your subscriptions through MiniatureMarket.com you can subscribe there for about $50 USD. That's less than $5 per issue and about the only way I'd buy one of those fething magazines again. Of course they just changed up their website entirely about a week ago. Best to call in and see if that's still available. I could wait till the end of the month for $5.

Thanks Kroot

Soo over 8 quid for an old toothbrush and an old scalpel blade, both available for free.

Think I will pass ta very much.

Not keen on the liquid GS in a paint bottle
Understand why they have used it but make sure you keep the lid down until you need to go.

While I was at my store I decided to kill some time by calling a few FLGS' listed in the back of the WD, they told me that it was put under an embargo until next week and told me that it was okay, seeing as GW didn't explicitly tell us, unlike them, that we weren't allowed to sell it just yet.

Kroothawk wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:So how much are they charging for a toothbrush?

Just click the pic:
8.20 £ for the brush, 3.75 £ for the manicure set, 2.30 £ for the green ooze and 70£ for the whole toilet bag.

Meh, if they only do their usual (doubling) of the UK price to AU I'll definately pick up the green stuff to play around with and possibly the tools as well. Getting one of those Squadron tools will cost me AU$15 to get sent out from the states (Micromark is even harder to find/more), so no biggie to pay $16 or $17 to get the GW version with the brush as a bonus.

I'll also be picking up the Vallejo stuff next time I order from Maelstrom, but their service is ...uneven, so I could well be waiting 2-3 weeks before they even manage to send anything out, or I might have it in 6 days.

Disappointed that the trend for releasing those single miniature plastic blisters has stopped so quickly (unless you're holding something back Brook?).

Flashman wrote:Disappointed that the trend for releasing those single miniature plastic blisters has stopped so quickly (unless you're holding something back Brook?).

Considering that out of that "trend for releasing single miniature plastic blisters", only two were not Wizards--I think it's not unreasonable to say that the trend will likely continue, when they go to do something where they feel they can do another big kind of "event tie-in".

Edit note:
I can't believe I forgot the Cairn Wraith and Tomb Banshee kits. That one I'm still kind of surprised by, since they basically made them "hero" models for what is in fact a unit entry.

It's kind of like fielding a unit of Cold One Knights made up entirely of Malus Darkblades.

Flashman wrote:Disappointed that the trend for releasing those single miniature plastic blisters has stopped so quickly (unless you're holding something back Brook?).

Nope, that's all for October, honest.

BrookM wrote:

Flashman wrote:Disappointed that the trend for releasing those single miniature plastic blisters has stopped so quickly (unless you're holding something back Brook?).

Nope, that's all for October, honest.

Bah, no money for GW this month then (well, none of mine anyway).

Kanluwen wrote:I can't believe I forgot the Cairn Wraith and Tomb Banshee kits. That one I'm still kind of surprised by, since they basically made them "hero" models for what is in fact a unit entry.

It's kind of like fielding a unit of Cold One Knights made up entirely of Malus Darkblades.

Banshees used to be single rare choices and Wraiths used to be single characters. I for one am super happy they put back in a way to field them outside of a silly unit.