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what do you guys think about using fire on warhammer to just mess with them and for battle damage.
you all would say i was an idiot for doing this but just want to know what you guys think, i use a candle for a lot of my models i burn them with metal
bb pelets.and if there is to big bit of plastic sticking out i burn it off.

Going to have to clean up your grammar and spelling a little bit, I'm having trouble following your post.

Generally speaking though I think heat is simply a tool in the box. There's some things it's great for and some things it's not. Like using a dremel though, you have to err on the side of caution as there's usually no take-backs when using heat.

Sounds like a trip to the emergency room or to your insurance agent. I never mix any kind of flame in the hobby because of the nature of alot of the stuff that is used to build these models are highly flamible.

If I'm going to bend a piece I'm using a candle. But that's about it. I've been playing with fire for long enough to realize that it only makes your head hurt if you do more than that.
Remember, kids; Don't play with fire if you aren't armed with a flamer!

I've used heat/flame plenty of times before. A pushpin, heated by a lighter or torch, pokes awesome bullet holes in armor, it even leaves cool little melted-plastic edges. Just make sure you don't heat the metal part of the pin so hot that it start slipping out of the plastic part it's stuck in!

I've also used a butane torch to great effect for a specific purpose: I was giving a friend's army a facelift, and he had two Rhinos that were done in basic Black Legion, but needed to be re-purposed to carry Plague Marines. I took the torch to them and I got a bunch of awesome effects: blistered paint, warped armor plates, melty holes in the armor that were painted to look like pustulent open sores, etc. They looked amazing, and from all accounts were a hit (he took them to Adepticon a year or two ago as part of a 1000-point team tournament list, I also made a custom display board to go with them).

Heat/flame is always an experiment; I'm never sure what effect I'll get. Sometimes good, sometimes not so much. Just make sure you're completely past any priming/gluing steps before you spark the torches, and there's proper ventilation and you take care around an open flame, blablah.

-Dis.

Just remember that plastic is flammable and you may get more than you bargained for when you apply fire to it.

Drying a rhino with a hair dryer gives a good nurgle look I have heard... ok give me a break I was 12.

I think it's fine if it's the effect you want. Just be carefull it doesn't ruin anything.

1-UP wrote:Going to have to clean up your grammar and spelling a little bit, I'm having trouble following your post.

? I understood it.

whatwhat wrote:Drying a rhino with a hair dryer gives a good nurgle look I have heard... ok give me a break I was 12.

I think it's fine if it's the effect you want. Just be carefull it doesn't ruin anything.

1-UP wrote:Going to have to clean up your grammar and spelling a little bit, I'm having trouble following your post.

? I understood it.

I guess he edited it.

yeah i edited it after the first post.

Pyro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just kidding
Ya I use fire all the time. I use a wood burner to get a a blown up effect