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Pinning aside, how do i make resins fit snuggly together?
Unlike current metal or plastic kits, the parts where they are supposed to be attached are not smooth at all.
Infact its where the parts are clipped off from the "frames" .

*edit on the back, a blur view of my USCM Sentry Bolter Gun ( including the laptop ish console )



Dont take the bus alone... or this happens !

can i have the body if you're not using it?

T-T i really want to finish the model.
Its one of the few models i actually spent time planning
the color scheme ...


I hate resin :x
*Pikachu took over the body atm :"P

Did you pin the head?
If you did is the pin to long?
Get the head as close to the body as possible.
Paint the to be joined area.
Press together with the paint still wet.
The wet paint will mark the high points of the join file these down.
Glue the pin to the body.
Do you have green stuff?
Make a green stuff ring around the neck.
Put glue on the pin then press the head in to the green stuff.
With a sculpting tool smooth the join between the head and neck put away till tomorrow till green stuff dries.

Woo ty Russ .

Is it normal to use GS on resin stuff like this to glue?

with something this size its worth pinning then gluing it, and possibly even cleaning up any gaps with GS.

Thanks JD ( wow you are up early! )

Im just abit paranoid of resin pinning requires drilling
and i heard lots of health hazard regarding enhaling the dust... I already feel weird from smelling plastic cement past months lol. Will try though...
not confident about drilling at all the last time i drilled somehing, it popped out to the side of the mini ( it went in slanted i guess)

Resin dust is not particularly toxic, but it is extremely fine and can get down into your lungs and do damage.

Just don't breath the dust and you'll be fine. A particulate filter like people get for pollen and such is more than enough. You don't need a respirator or anything.

Besides, drilling won't create particles that small anyway.

Do you have a pin vice.



Mine is the one next to the files.
If you don't have one that ok but this will not make any dust so no worry's. Just small chips of resin.
The gs will act as both a adhesive and a gap filler with the super holding it till the gs hardens.

As FW is notorious for having models that don't fit together properly (although it's much better than it used to be), it's extremely common to have to use GS to fill gaps in resin models like this.

Those little.... things are scaring the poop out of me.

That aside FW resins are a real bitch to work with if you arnt familiar with them

WHen i take the bus i bring my good old friend EC.
Why is resin so hard to work with, im thinking about buying a marine model from forgeworld, and it is resin to.

As opposed to metal or plastic which have a certain amount of elasticity and pliability and can be bent, at room temperature, resin just breaks. It's also a whole lot tougher to cut or drill than either GWs metals or plastics. This makes resin a much more unforgiving medium to work with when trying to do conversions. Pinning's not necessarily hard, but it's harder than it is on a metal or plastic model.

That first picture is one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen...

Also, don't forget to thoroughly clean your resin as the mold release agents can really interfere with adhesives!

And paint, for that matter!

If slaanesh could see what was occuring in that first picture, he would send in the Daemonettes!

lol, no probs hun, and i didnt sleep XD
to bored to sleep, well, thats my excuse anyways.


if you are drilling resin use a pin vice (less dust) and make sure you have a mask on.


make sure you wash off the mould release aswell with warm soapy water as it will stick 1000x better


and just a note, once superglue stcks 2 pieces of resin together it tends to dry very quickly.



Edit:


1: you make it sound as if im never up early!

2: as for using a pin vice, just make sure its at a good angle so you dont go through the model.
if you do, a small ammount of putty will fix it

well thats your problem right there, you got a pikachu humping your headless demon.

corpse, trust you to pick that one out
you allways pick up on the fethed up and the down right wrong things XD

What can i say? its in my nature

i would also guess that your nature includes multiple restraining orders?

look i didnt touch her there i swear!
i mean urm...
nice carnifex?

As an aside, GS is crap when you try to use it for a long term adhesive. Temporarily it is fine, but if you want the model to stay together long term you definitely need superglue.

elnicko5 is right listen to that flashgit