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2012/12/04 05:12:49
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Crazed Spirit of the Defiler
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Ok, so I've finally set to work on my Typhus-counts as model, but while I can repose and greenstuff to my hearts content, I have always been bad at shaping a blade with plasticard. I can cut plasticard to shape, but forming the actual cutting edge of a blade always looks horrible. How would you guys suggest I shape the Manreaper blade?
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/12/04 05:13:20
 Daemons--5000
 Death Guard --2000
 Daemons--15000
 Word Bearers--10000
Total investment in the Forces of Chaos: 38,000
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2012/12/04 05:15:45
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Fixture of Dakka
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Have you tried gentley and gradually filing the edges down to a point?
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2012/12/04 05:26:29
Subject: Re:Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Crazed Spirit of the Defiler
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I'm embarrassed to admit that no....I hadn't even thought of sanding it down  I'm now thinking that my dremel rotary sander wild be perfect for honing the curved scythe blade.
Thanks for answered my question...feeling pretty stupid right now 
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Daemons--5000
Death Guard --2000
Daemons--15000
Word Bearers--10000
Total investment in the Forces of Chaos: 38,000
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2012/12/04 07:43:25
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Furious Fire Dragon
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Dremel rotates too fast to file down plastic. Be careful or the plastic card will melt.
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Got milk?
All I can say about painting is that VMC tastes much better than VMA... especially black... 
PM me if you are interested in Commission work.
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2012/12/04 08:29:50
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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For a typhus model blade, the blade edge doesn't even have to be a nice smooth curve. Nicks, cracks and an uneven edge defines the nurgle blessing as much as anything else.
I'd just use a blade and carefully shave the edge back, then hack at it to roughen it up.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/12/04 08:30:23
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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2012/12/04 08:58:25
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Fixture of Dakka
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I didn't even mean a rotary file. I was just talking about a little hand file they one would use for mold lines and such.
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2012/12/04 08:59:01
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Regular Dakkanaut
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use a sharp blade and carve it down slightly til you get a close enough shape then scrape it down to make it smooth
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2012/12/04 09:40:10
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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Layers! Use thin plasticard in 3 (or more) layers like so:
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...then smooth GS to form the blade bevelled edges:
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Result: nice smooth blade edges.
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 Stormonu wrote:For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
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2012/12/04 11:51:04
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Leader of the Sept
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But 3 layers of plasticard is really quite thick. You're much better off just filing the edges down. Easy to do with a needle file.
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Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
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2012/12/05 14:44:52
Subject: Need help shaping a plasticard blade!
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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Hah, sorry, ex-Ork player. Thick choppa = good choppa. At least that's what she said...
I'll get my coat...
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Stormonu wrote:For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
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