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When you buy a set of 'impulse' models, asseble them with what you think looks good, paint or undercoat them, then decided that you dont like those particular weapons, or do a conversion and think, I want that bit for something else, and then try desperately to try and either cut the bit off, or snap it off. Am I the only one that does this lol?
And is it my imagination, or are there chemicals that do remove glue? I may have dreamt it but I swear I saw some once at a car boot sale.

Unless I have a specific plan for the unit I buy (or if I forget the plan), I tend to go "Yeah! That looks awesome!" and stick everything together willy-nilly.

Then about a week later I realise that I needed the unit for something and have to attack them with the cliipers/x-acto, and usually end up with bits and bits of bits everywhere.

And I've never seen any chemicals for removing glue, I just sacrifice lambs to Gork and Mork in the hope that they will come up with a cunningly violent (or violently cunning) method of removing it.

S_P

get the Hobby knife or whatever you sue, and get the point of it, stab it in the 'joint' where it is attached. with a bit of leverage, it should come off with minimal damage

Matrim wrote:get the Hobby knife or whatever you sue, and get the point of it, stab it in the 'joint' where it is attached. with a bit of leverage, it should come off with minimal damage

Yea try saying that to my now binned Chaos Predator Tank, tried what was kinda obvious but part of it still snapped >.<

Funnily enough the Rhino fell apart after taking off the top part of the hull lol.

But yea, so far just dig at it with a knife or use a razor saw to cut it.

Winnertakesall Wrote:
When you buy a set of 'impulse' models, asseble them with what you think looks good, paint or undercoat them, then decided that you dont like those particular weapons, or do a conversion and think, I want that bit for something else, and then try desperately to try and either cut the bit off, or snap it off. Am I the only one that does this lol?
And is it my imagination, or are there chemicals that do remove glue? I may have dreamt it but I swear I saw some once at a car boot sale.

I do that, i have a plastic setnel that has hadd all of the weapons glued on and ripped off, and some twice!

I havent heard of any glue remover aside from freezing -and even then it requires some work-, but may i suggest that on future models you use superglue for the weapons?