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Zinge Industries also sells flexible ammo feeds and power cables, should one get fed up with trying to bend these into shape.

When assembling my Castellax and Thanatar, I was very thankful for my wife's hairdryer when gluing on the ammo feeds.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
The previous designs, IIRC, only had a single arm pose, so they could cast the ammo feeds in the right shape (and even then, they weren't a perfect fit). These ones are designed to go on the Betrayal At Calth plastics with at least three different arm positions. If they put in fifteen ammo feeds with each pack of weapons, people would be complaining that they were overpricing the kits by adding extraneous material ...

Perhaps it's more hassle across the pond where everyone might not have a kettle?

What do I need a kettle for? We have hot tap water. Is that not enough?

I get that its a luxury product and also marketed for more skilled/ experienced hobbyists but I feel like the upgrades to plastic kits are something they should be keeping simple. That way, they can use them as bait. The bigger full resin kits can remain difficult and more involved because by then its a given. Correct me if I'm wrong, I get the feeling that FW isn't keeping the lights on with the occasional titan purchase. People like me who splurge on upgrade sets must count for a lot anyway, even if I never buy one thunderhawk.

I don't know what you mean exactly by "occasional" Titan purchase (they had approximately five times the expected demand for Warlord Titans on day one and I don't get the impression it has let up that much since) but their bread and butter has always been the bigger model kits.
Recall that once, long ago, they had exactly zero infantry kits in their catalogue unless you counted the 8" tall super-detailed space marine statuette that sold for £90.

I honestly think the FW kits are fairly simple to put together. For example my old man has a 1:35 scale resin tank kit that he is making. It has 400 track components that he needs to drill a hole through on each one to fit the brass rod track link......so it could be a lot worse lol

However, the 1:35 kit is of a higher quality and fits together much better than your average FW kit.

anyone have a timeframe on the space wolf kits?

I want to put together an order for some VOlkite/rotor cannons and if the SW are supposed to be soon, I'll hold off and get everything at once.

Ok, here is how ya do it.
Assemble the gun and back pack as normal.
glue the belt too the backpack.
Go get a pair of plyers or something ti put models in.
After that, put some water in a mug in the microwave for 15 minutes or longer.
Get some ice water.
Put the model in the hot water, then bend to gun
Put in ice water.
BOOM, your good.

Triszin wrote:
anyone have a timeframe on the space wolf kits?

I want to put together an order for some VOlkite/rotor cannons and if the SW are supposed to be soon, I'll hold off and get everything at once.

one attendee from the HH Weekender estimated September to October but who knows.

The bulletin this week previewed them and said 'soon'. whatever that may mean.

September/October seems a very long time to wait. If something's in the bulletin we'll usually see it within a few weeks.

Daston wrote:
I honestly think the FW kits are fairly simple to put together. For example my old man has a 1:35 scale resin tank kit that he is making. It has 400 track components that he needs to drill a hole through on each one to fit the brass rod track link......so it could be a lot worse lol

Wow. That's... incredibly frustrating lol. Think I'll stick to my 40k!

 Powerfisting wrote:

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
The previous designs, IIRC, only had a single arm pose, so they could cast the ammo feeds in the right shape (and even then, they weren't a perfect fit). These ones are designed to go on the Betrayal At Calth plastics with at least three different arm positions. If they put in fifteen ammo feeds with each pack of weapons, people would be complaining that they were overpricing the kits by adding extraneous material ...

Perhaps it's more hassle across the pond where everyone might not have a kettle?

What do I need a kettle for? We have hot tap water. Is that not enough?

Most people don't set their hot water that high because you know.... it would burn you.

A electric kettle gets the water much hotter witch helps makes the resin more flexible.

I also use wooden chop sticks to hold the part in the water. Metal forks or spoons absorb heat out of the part and water.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ok, here is how ya do it.
Assemble the gun and back pack as normal.
glue the belt too the backpack.
Go get a pair of plyers or something ti put models in.
After that, put some water in a mug in the microwave for 15 minutes or longer.
Get some ice water.
Put the model in the hot water, then bend to gun
Put in ice water.
BOOM, your good.

Do not put entire resin models into water thats been nuked for 15 minutes! Your models will become trash lol.

 Red Corsair wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ok, here is how ya do it.
Assemble the gun and back pack as normal.
glue the belt too the backpack.
Go get a pair of plyers or something ti put models in.
After that, put some water in a mug in the microwave for 15 minutes or longer.
Get some ice water.
Put the model in the hot water, then bend to gun
Put in ice water.
BOOM, your good.

Do not put entire resin models into water thats been nuked for 15 minutes! Your models will become trash lol.

And why would anybody do that? You do that with only the warped parts. And its quite simple.
My Krios Venator was more of a pain, because massive misscasts on the chassis. Took longer than I expected. Well, the whole kit is quite a pain in the back.
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Any timeframe on the Ursarax? I wait very long for this kit.

 Ankhalagon wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ok, here is how ya do it.
Assemble the gun and back pack as normal.
glue the belt too the backpack.
Go get a pair of plyers or something ti put models in.
After that, put some water in a mug in the microwave for 15 minutes or longer.
Get some ice water.
Put the model in the hot water, then bend to gun
Put in ice water.
BOOM, your good.

Do not put entire resin models into water thats been nuked for 15 minutes! Your models will become trash lol.

And why would anybody do that? You do that with only the warped parts. And its quite simple.
My Krios Venator was more of a pain, because massive misscasts on the chassis. Took longer than I expected. Well, the whole kit is quite a pain in the back.
--------------------------------
Any timeframe on the Ursarax? I wait very long for this kit.

15mins will boil away the water 30-60 seconds will do you

did i type 15?
Damn phone.
I meant 1-5

Or it will flash boil when you put the parts in, and it will do a little more than just ruin your day.

I have literally NEVER had problems with resin doing that. that is how I bend my finecast, forgeworld and others.

Please stay on topic here (Forgeworld News and Rumors) and move resin tips-n-tricks over to the appropriate P&M forum - thanks!

From today's bulletin:


New Sons of Horus transfers


Blackshield transfers, I am pretty sure

Now if they would just RELEASE THEM and the House Vyronii ones they showed in October, I would be happy. Never understood the lead time on decal sheets, since you just print them...

The skeletal Imperial Aquilas on the Blackshield sheet are proper badass.

I very much hope that the second sheet is more Solar Auxilia goodness.

 BrookM wrote:
I very much hope that the second sheet is more Solar Auxilia goodness.

Definitely Blackshields, given the skull aquila and the seahorse, both featured in HH6.

Could quite easily use them for custom SA regiments though. They look sweet, as I'm sure the SoH ones will be.

What are the SoH xfers for? Weren't they like the first legion to get rules? Surely they would already have transfers?

 Powerfisting wrote:
What are the SoH xfers for? Weren't they like the first legion to get rules? Surely they would already have transfers?

They have steadily been updating from just basic icons to these more lavish ones.

 Powerfisting wrote:
What are the SoH xfers for? Weren't they like the first legion to get rules? Surely they would already have transfers?

They did, but they hired Holly Goodwin recently and she's been doing stellar work on the transfers so they're updating the older ones too.

The lead time on transfers is because of the same reason there's a lead time on books, for all that you're "just printing them" – it's not like these things are run off on a laser printer in the office.

I'm not sure that second sheet is Blackshields, those runes in the top right look distinctly chaotic, and the heading for the bulletin is "Symbols Of Treachery."

That second sheet is for Luthor's Dark Angels turned traitor, I think.