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 mikeyboy69x wrote:
Gotta admit since being pointed out (the mold lines) they have rather distracted me from the model itself, I do still have 2 models left in the squad which haven't gone through the final phase of painting, so I may attempt to take them out, and if all goes well, do the same to the newly painted models, and re-paint the legs.

Just out of curiosity, as clearly I am a noob at spotting the simplist of things lol, are there anywhere else where these mold lines occur?

As for the drilling the gun bit, I will certainly try and find a decent pack of drills with bits in, and practise on a few boltguns that aren't on my models first haha.

That bolt pistol stands out. One things that helps with mold lines is to see where they go, and just follow them. They are seams, and go all the way around the mini in a continuos line. Pick a start point, and just rotate and scrape/file.

As someone who just finished cleaning a squad of assault marines, here is what stood out to me when I was working:

Heads. Right in the middle, front/back, across the ears.
Legs. Up the sides, both inside and out.
Torso. Nothing of note
Shoulder pads. Also pretty clean
Bolt pistols. Big line, right down the middle. Nothing shows the lines like drybrushing, which is how I do my bolters.
Chainswords. Not as bad as the pistols, but still needed some work.
Jump packs. These were just ugly. I cleaned them up before glueing together, and then filed them a little bit more after, to try to hide the seams.

Q: Where are the mold lines?
A: Normally the molds will be split apart int he middle, which means that a lot of miniatures (plastic ones are normally cast in sprue's) will come from a single mold. So they should run from the same place on 2 sides of the model (say the bottem, usually feet) it will run up down (nice sentencing) the middle till they meet. This is generally true afaik in games workshop stuff etc.