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So I just opened up my newest box containing a crisis battlesuit, and like every crisis I've owned before this one, the backpack thing (the two rear pieces of the torso) don't line up properly. Now, I assume that I have to just glue them together, and keep them tightly together while they dry, but I'm curious as to what you guys do about this issue. Do you use vice grips/clamps/etc, what tools, that sort of stuff. This is just a really irritating issue, and I'd like to nail down a solution before I get started on the first suit of my new army. Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

I have used rubber bands to keep the jet pack together before. However it usually takes a number of them to be really effective. If you are willing to do some cutting, look at this conversion guide.
http://forums.tauonline.org/index.php/topic,87821.0.html

I am making a full squad of them and my two examples are pretty nice and give a good contrast to the normal suit.
That is my two cents at least.

Seconded. Lots of elastic bands are the way to go.

guardpiper wrote:I have used rubber bands to keep the jet pack together before. However it usually takes a number of them to be really effective. If you are willing to do some cutting, look at this conversion guide.
http://forums.tauonline.org/index.php/topic,87821.0.html

I am making a full squad of them and my two examples are pretty nice and give a good contrast to the normal suit.
That is my two cents at least.

Ok...that looked pretty cool. But I think I'm going to hold off on that sort of conversion until I at least manage to paint a model for once in my life...



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Flinty wrote:Seconded. Lots of elastic bands are the way to go.

Does that actually work? Those backpacks take a LOT of force to hold down, and that's with you sitting there pressing them together with all your might.

You have to wind the band around quite a few times to get a strong hold but it can be done. I would recommend relatively small but heavy duty bands.

Any particular brand you recomend, or just any old rubber bands wrapped around multiple times?





...Now I have to go find out if citadel has gone as far as making their own rubber bands....

I think ive found something of use here.
When farmers give sheep the chop they use an elastic band, its not a basic band though, its stupidly strong and has alot of force to it.
To open them you need to use a pair of pliers.
Not sure of thier name, but a friend was talking about the some time ago, they should do the job well.