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So I have run into a bit of a snag,the male wildcats arms barely even fit together, I am going to have to do some greenstuff work to their shoulder just to cover that gaps left to get their support arms to line up. I am not very pleased.

You could just not have them fitting correctly. Infinity models with arms that joint at the gun have precisely one way to attach, and sometimes it's hard to find the correct angle.

I had to do a lot of experimenting with my Farzan - imagine the same issue, but the arms are in three parts. Left arm, right arm, gun with both hands on it. I had to get the arms positioned right to get the hands on the gun to plug into the wrists.

Be glad it's not like the old Boarding Shotgun Odalisque. Poor girl needed an entire right mastectomy to get the arms to line up.

Newer models have a neat little feature - the arm sockets have two shard indents, while the cnnection on the arm itself has two sharp protrusions. Simply plugging the arm into the socket causes these little alignment plugs to align the arm correctly. Unfortunately, they're fairly new - the earliest kit I've seen them in was the Odalisque kit.

 -Loki- wrote:
You could just not have them fitting correctly. Infinity models with arms that joint at the gun have precisely one way to attach, and sometimes it's hard to find the correct angle.

I had to do a lot of experimenting with my Farzan - imagine the same issue, but the arms are in three parts. Left arm, right arm, gun with both hands on it. I had to get the arms positioned right to get the hands on the gun to plug into the wrists.

Be glad it's not like the old Boarding Shotgun Odalisque. Poor girl needed an entire right mastectomy to get the arms to line up.

Newer models have a neat little feature - the arm sockets have two shard indents, while the cnnection on the arm itself has two sharp protrusions. Simply plugging the arm into the socket causes these little alignment plugs to align the arm correctly. Unfortunately, they're fairly new - the earliest kit I've seen them in was the Odalisque kit.

Well the bastards are glued together now so they just get to stay that way Just have to do some simple joint filling. Fun part now is I am attaching them to scenic bases and two of the models only attach via one foot.

Attaching with one foot is an Infinity staple. You need to be a lot more careful with those. My Ragik hacker nearly snapped off his single attachment point when I was just cleaning the model.

Well you have to remember whether he took one wound or two. One renders him unconscious which activates Dogged (and if you have a doctor, can heal), two kills him outright meaning no Dogged.

 KoganStyle wrote:
Well you have to remember whether he took one wound or two. One renders him unconscious which activates Dogged (and if you have a doctor, can heal), two kills him outright meaning no Dogged.

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So I have run into a bit of a snag,the male wildcats arms barely even fit together, I am going to have to do some greenstuff work to their shoulder just to cover that gaps left to get their support arms to line up. I am not very pleased.

Strange I got the corrigedor set too and everything was perfect. I think I know what if may be though, the two male wildcats have very similar arm poses. Initially they fitted poorly for me until I realised I'd mixed them up between the two. The hunched over dude is the one that doesn't have his gun up to his face whereas on the other guy it pretty much touches. Not sure how much help this would be though if you've already assembled them... The support arms are also slightly different, one of the sockets is a bit more twisted around than the other. Can't remember which goes to which though.
Alternatively there are those parts cards that come with them that can be used for returns if they're truly munted.

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I think thats with regards the the convo about the AD ragik earlier. He's got dogged but if he takes a second wound on his death spree, he still dies.



Haha, true about the one foot models as well. One day they may bring out a hellcat thats on both feet. But for the moment I'm loving those tomcats, flamethrower+climbing plus+doctor ftw!

 NuclearMessiah wrote:
So I have run into a bit of a snag,the male wildcats arms barely even fit together, I am going to have to do some greenstuff work to their shoulder just to cover that gaps left to get their support arms to line up. I am not very pleased.

Yeah, the male Wildcats were poorly designed I think.

The arms are specific to each of the male Wildcats and do not work on the other and it requires you to gradually fit the parts together after constant fitting.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 NuclearMessiah wrote:
So I have run into a bit of a snag,the male wildcats arms barely even fit together, I am going to have to do some greenstuff work to their shoulder just to cover that gaps left to get their support arms to line up. I am not very pleased.

Yeah, the male Wildcats were poorly designed I think.

The arms are specific to each of the male Wildcats and do not work on the other and it requires you to gradually fit the parts together after constant fitting.

Funny you mention that, the support arms were mixed up in my packages. That was very frustrating when trying to assemble the first without opening the second. As for my single foot hellcat, I am using some secret weapon mini bases and they are thicker then the basic infinity base, so I have a very long pin glued down into the base that is up in the foot, seems pretty solid so far.


But as far as the arms go I managed, I started playing GW games when they still had a massive inventory of metal minis and you learn real quick about gap filling and pinning.

The single foot Hellcats annoy me to no end, but the Secret Weapon "Blasted Wetlands" bases have me covered in the form of tree stumps and the like which can be used to give a bit more fluidity to them.

I'm using the generic steel plate bases, easy to paint and convey the ship board fighting the Corregidor army is known for.

So got them all attached to thier bases for referance they will look like this

Also I am painting my guys in their standard color scheme found in the art and box.

So this afternoon I am going to dig out my whitebox and snap a few photos so I can get my blog going for my pledge.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 NuclearMessiah wrote:
So I have run into a bit of a snag,the male wildcats arms barely even fit together, I am going to have to do some greenstuff work to their shoulder just to cover that gaps left to get their support arms to line up. I am not very pleased.

Yeah, the male Wildcats were poorly designed I think.

The arms are specific to each of the male Wildcats and do not work on the other and it requires you to gradually fit the parts together after constant fitting.

I looked at the case in my wildcats, the arms are not poorly designed they are improperly packed, the arms of wildcat A are in the bag of wildcat B and vice versa.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 NuclearMessiah wrote:
So I have run into a bit of a snag,the male wildcats arms barely even fit together, I am going to have to do some greenstuff work to their shoulder just to cover that gaps left to get their support arms to line up. I am not very pleased.

Yeah, the male Wildcats were poorly designed I think.

The arms are specific to each of the male Wildcats and do not work on the other and it requires you to gradually fit the parts together after constant fitting.

I looked at the case in my wildcats, the arms are not poorly designed they are improperly packed, the arms of wildcat A are in the bag of wildcat B and vice versa.

Had the same issue with mine.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 NuclearMessiah wrote:
So I have run into a bit of a snag,the male wildcats arms barely even fit together, I am going to have to do some greenstuff work to their shoulder just to cover that gaps left to get their support arms to line up. I am not very pleased.

Yeah, the male Wildcats were poorly designed I think.

The arms are specific to each of the male Wildcats and do not work on the other and it requires you to gradually fit the parts together after constant fitting.

I looked at the case in my wildcats, the arms are not poorly designed they are improperly packed, the arms of wildcat A are in the bag of wildcat B and vice versa.

That was not the case for myself. All four of my Wildcat males(bought two Corregidor starters) are assembled with the arms that came in their bags.
The simple problem is that the arms only fit in exactly one way and you need to use Angel's close-up photos to ensure that you get that pose exactly correct.

That's exactly what I said, the arms in the bags were for the other model at least in my starter.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
That's exactly what I said, the arms in the bags were for the other model at least in my starter.

I think we're having a contextual error in regards to language, Psy.

I'm not disagreeing with you about the arms being specific to each model but rather I'm trying to say that the arms only go together in one specific pose.
There is no room whatsoever for even minute repositioning of the firing arms on the male Wildcats. If you're off by a hairsbreadth in assembly it leaves unsightly gaps/undetailed areas.

Ah, I will agree with that, in my case though they were also packed with the wrong model too.

After I realized this I had no problem fitting the rifle down wildcat, but the aiming wildcat needed some dry-fitting to get the pose right.

I really should get this thread renamed to NuclearMessiah's Infinity thoughts lol.

So going off something someone said in the DCM den awhile back I am going to make some clear acrylic bases for some of my models. This would give the illusion that the model is based in whatever terrain your playing on, I may try using a thickness that is much thinner then the standard base size to mitigate the floating look.