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So I got typhus and a squad of plague marines!

But they're resin...

Apparently I'm supposed to wash them or something? And what's a good glue to use?
Please help

Wash in warm (not hot) soapy water & glue with superglue.

Yep wash them as above. Dry fit everything to make sure it fits smoothly. If it doesn't, you can immerse the items in hot water, then carefully bend them into the correct shape before immersing them in cold water. Then dry fit again to make sure it's good, if not repeat.

Then you can assemble to the stage where further assembly will cause problems with painting. Any superglue will work, there was a thread here discussing the differences. Some prefer cheapies (which do work fine), others prefer brand names, gels, brush applied etc.

Are the models resin or finecast? You don't need to wash finecast.

[WARNING: Heavily implied SARCASM With finecast you can bypass the washing stage and throw them straight into the bin.

Or cut out the middleman and just flush some money down the toilet. [end sarcasm]

Mild dishsoap and a gentle brush (nailbrush, child toothbrush, that sort of thing) and some warm (not hot) water. If you can't keep your hand in it without burns, it's TOO HOT.

I wouldn't ignore washing on finecast. Better save than sorry, especially considering the money invested.

And considering all the needed air bubble filling the washing will at least clean them from the sweat handling all those bitz during correcting all the casting errors.

From what I heard some of the new finecasts have something on then that needs to be washed off [in cold water] or the paint won't stick to the mini. I did that to my belial and it's completatly fine.



edited by Reds8n

Sorry did you miss the little Aussie flag and the heavily implied SARCASM?

I shall have to make it even more bleedingly obvious next time.

 chromedog wrote:
Sorry did you miss the little Aussie flag and the heavily implied SARCASM?

I shall have to make it even more bleedingly obvious next time.

FYI I did know it was sarcasm. Thing is you were not being funny.

I thought you were both funny ; p

Give it a good wash so you can better see where the bubbles are. Otherwise they might pop while painting. Happened to me. I thought the Aussie was quite funny. My wife had a good laugh, as well.

 sing your life wrote:

 chromedog wrote:
Sorry did you miss the little Aussie flag and the heavily implied SARCASM?

I shall have to make it even more bleedingly obvious next time.

FYI I did know it was sarcasm. Thing is you were not being funny.

I thought your picture you posted was even worse.

Cheers Chromedog, that lil quote totally made my night.

MerkQT wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 chromedog wrote:
Sorry did you miss the little Aussie flag and the heavily implied SARCASM?

I shall have to make it even more bleedingly obvious next time.

FYI I did know it was sarcasm. Thing is you were not being funny.

I thought your picture you posted was even worse.

edited by Reds8n

Please no arguing. The initial comment was good for a laugh, and the picture was certainly lulz worthy,

Back on topic, I agree that washing IS neccesary as my paint refused to adhere to typhus.

And thank you all for your thoughts may you all roll many 's...

Except against me and and on leadership tests

Edit: also I know the movie and am joining the marines....

No real reason to inform you...other than my excitement

I normally use black paint to prime my models

And I ran out of my spray prime

Several posts have been edited or removed due to their unacceptable nature with regards to behaviour on this forum. If such behaviour persists then accounts will be suspended.

 reds8n wrote:
Several posts have been edited or removed due to their unacceptable nature with regards to behaviour on this forum. If such behaviour persists then accounts will be suspended.

It's just a little bit of fun Reds8n.

The "fun" back and forth was not appreciated by the TC, who you should be helping if you are posting in this thread. There is also a line between "fun" and over the top which is easy to cross and I highly suspect you all did, even only seeing the edited versions. Accept it and stick on topic if you have anything else to add, or move on.