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I just received my copy of "Open Fire" the starter set for FoW and the tanks that are in it are resin correct? I have read on here before there are special things you need to do with resin... could someone who has done it before, please lead me through whats necessary for these models!

Thanks!

Give them a wash with some warmish (NOT hot) soapy water and an old toothbrush.

Use a primer coat on the resin before painting (NOT GW spray paint. PROPER primer prevents p*ss-poor painting).

The scale you are playing with, minor details are unimportant.
15mm is much more forgiving than 28mm.

^ That. The washing is to get any left over mold release agent off the models. One other thing you need to know about resin is that resin powder can cause cancer. If you need to file them for any reason make sure you do not breathe the dust. One trick is to file them when wet or even underwater to keep the dust out of the air.

On a side note, congrats! Flames of War is (imo) the best miniatures rules set out there and easily my favorite minis game.

Cannibal wrote:^ That. The washing is to get any left over mold release agent off the models. One other thing you need to know about resin is that resin powder can cause cancer. If you need to file them for any reason make sure you do not breathe the dust. One trick is to file them when wet or even underwater to keep the dust out of the air.

On a side note, congrats! Flames of War is (imo) the best miniatures rules set out there and easily my favorite minis game.

I can't stress this enough.. please wear a face mask when filing it down, you will most likely need to file it down too, as high quality the material is, when it comes out of the cast it can leave large resin blobs on the model, so if you file it down or cut them off, they will look great but PLEASE wear a mask.

as for what primer to use for the resin, go to Walmart and get Rust-o-leum brand car primer. it sticks to everything and you can use it in any kind of weather it also dries really nice even if you overspray unlike GW primer that ends up clogging the details.

if you want to play the Germans out of the FoW box you will most likely have a few of the side armor plates broken (i had 1 undamaged side out of 2 starter boxes worth of StuGs.

they are an easy fix, i used a dremmel tool on low speed and sanded the side armor off all of the broken tanks, i also removed the blob of resin on the bottom of the tank so they would match other StuG III.

i took my non-broken StuG III and quickly covered the surviving armor plate with watered down chaos black and while it was still wet i pressed it against a blank index card making sure to not move anything.

i then used the paint transfered to the index card as a template that i cut out and traced onto plasticard i then used thin plasticard to make the individual armor plates.

they look pretty darn close to the original ones.

I've found that when working with FoW resin your better off cleaning it with something alittle stronger then soap and water. IMO some dilutted Simple Green or Super Clean works much better, just don't leave them in to long. A quick swirl in a bucket is more then enough usually.

As far as painting goes, there are some awsome Paint/Prime spray cans made specfically for the game. They are kinda pricey but they cut down on alot of the work needed.

Painting at the 15mm scale isnt so much about detail as it is about putting little dots of paint in the correct area.

Thanks for the help guys! I'll make sure to wash in soap to start off see how it goes. I did notice on the bottom of the stugs lots of resin that needs to come off what should I use to get that off? Thanks for the tip on the mask I had no clue! Where do you work with resin? Out side? Room?

And yeah I was disappointed the armour on my stugs was chipped, thanks for your help sir.

Thanks!