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I've recently discovered that chapterhouse studios will be releasing soon a skull helmet design that will fit perfectly with the theme of my chapter, which in brief is supposed to be a chapter comprised of chaplains and chaplains in training. I currently have about 150 marines assembled and awaiting paint, all of which were put together using plastic glue, not super glue. Having been previously unable to find a satisfactory skull that I could use in the place of marine heads my plan had been to paint a skull design on the marines' helmets. However, given the upcoming release of this product from chapterhouse, I am seriously considering removing all my marine heads in order to replace them with this product. My question is should I dremel off these heads (a lengthy process which would also likely ruin several models until I get the process down pat) in order to replace them, as I cannot simply snap them off as I would had they been assembled with super glue, or should I proceed with my plan of painting skull designs on my existing marine helmets and for any new models I purchase use the heads from chapterhouse? The latter will mean an inconsistent style to my army but be more time and cost effective.
Opinions?
Oh, and as to why I have 150 marines, I'm an obsessive collector. Oddly, I paint far more slowly than I collect, as I am also obsessive about painting to the highest quality I'm capable (which was relatively quick when I sucked, but now not so much) so only 3 of the 150 actually currently have paint.

For reference to the helmet design, I'll post a link that chapterhouse gratefully sent me recently. It's a dakka post, so hopefully you feel free to view it.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/282070.page

What you can do is put them in the freezer which makes the super glue brittle and they should just snap off with out too much trouble, then again I've never had trouble just man handling heads out unless they are termis.

Easiest way (if you don't want to keep the heads on them) is to cut them flush with the base of the helmet and then use a 5mm bit to redo the socket the head fits into.

Dremelling plastic is overkill. Even slow speeds will more likely melt the plastic over drilling, cutting or sanding.

If you use a very small amount of plastic glue you might be able to pop them off with a scaple. I just riped apart some minis my friend gave me. He uses very little plastic glue.

Sorry Shatterproof. As mentioned, I did not use super glue. Hence the conundrum. Still, had I used super glue, that suggestion would be ace. Would not have considered freezing it to increase brittleness.

Chromedog: (facepalm over own idiocy) Why did I not think of my damned drill instead? Circular hole, circular bit. And you're right, my main issue was going to be with the melted plastic, but the drill won't cause that. So simple I completely did not consider it. I mean, the cutting of the heads down to the neck will not be fun, by any means, but over all that's a much simpler process. Thank you.

Epil: I definitely did not use a small amount. The plastic is well and truly fused.

I think a drill would work perfectly as well, but as a dremel user I have to say that "melting" doesnt occur as much as people panic about. The only time I ever see melting is if Im too lazy to find my barrel drill bit and use a dremel bit instead. Good luck though I really want to see some pics when you get them going

I'll try and post some pics of my painted figs soon. I've been lazy and haven't taken any photos. I also have no light box so the photos won't really do the minis justice, regardless of my 5 MP camera. Still, they'll at least give a good representation.