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This may sound like a silly question but how to the ends of the legs actually attach to the legs themselves?

I've got a Tomb Stalker but I'm yet to actually assemble it. Looking at what I have I think I need to cut slots into the claws and affix them to the rounded joints at the end of the legs (the flat rounded joints, not the spherical ones obv), but it doesn't mention it any where in the instructions...

If you're talking about the legs, there is a round bit on the end of the leg with a bump on either side of it. The actual claw\foot end should fit onto that without any cutting needed.

Corax wrote:It looks a little shiny to me. Necrons have just awoken from millenia of slumber, I saw somewhere the age would have worn off the shine.

true but necrons are made of living metal so it would never age or oxidise and if it got scratched it would just regenerate

I just got my Tomb Stalker, and I'm starting to cut and clean the sprues.
Now I'm thinking about magnetizing the whole thing, with 3/16" neodym spheres for the body, 1/8" spheres for legs and 1/10" discs for joints.
How do you see it?

pstef wrote:I just got my Tomb Stalker, and I'm starting to cut and clean the sprues.
Now I'm thinking about magnetizing the whole thing, with 3/16" neodym spheres for the body, 1/8" spheres for legs and 1/10" discs for joints.
How do you see it?

I see it as maybe confusing. I don't know how the poles work on spherical magnets (MAGNETS, HOW DO THEY WORK?), but it seems to me that you would have a difficult time aligning them correctly when you glue them in, and then would have the legs going every which way. If you could get that to work, it would certainly give you a lot of action-figure style points of articulation.

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That being said, you comment finally prompted me to go that last one hour of work and finally finish my damn Tomb Stalker. Which I did, tonight. Yes, that enormous delay was over an hour of work, and 2 small problems, which I will discuss in a moment. First, here are the pics of my finally complete Tomb Stalker. They are in the gallery and you can zoom in quite a bit, if you'd like to enjoy every mis-stroke and blemish in glorious detail.

















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Seems like an awful lot of procrastination for such a simple model huh? Heh.

Ok, so here are some of the problems that kept me from finishing it. The first (and most minor) one being I lacked the appropriate glue for the transparent rods. I had been using super glue on my necron troops, and risking fogging and been lucky. I didn't want to take any chances with this one, though. I finally had some model master for transparent parts delivered about a week ago.

Another small problem is you might notice that my Stalker is missing the little "baby" claws. Unfortunately, I dropped the head when I was assembling in February, and one claw broke and went off into oblivion, never to be seen again. I kept thinking about how to replace it, but tonight decided screw it, and just snapped off the other one. I don't know a good way to replace the baby claws, but you know, maybe it's better off without them (no, not calling sour grapes). First off, the looked kinda funny, and second off, mine were hideously miscast and looked awful-er. Of course, I'm being redundant when I say they were horribly miscast anyway, you guys already know it's a Forge World model, amirite? /snicker

The final problem, of course, was that I had 40k-block. I don't know a way to avoid this, but it happens to me rather frequently. I get a model nearly all the way to completion, and then just lose focus and work on something else. It's happened with my Chaos guys, it happened with my fancy Ultramarine Rhino, and it happened hardcore with the Tomb Stalker. So, I apologize to anyone who may have been waiting with bated breath for an update. I've included disclaimers regarding my closing problem in subsequent worklogs.

Looks like the rather unfortunately typical timeline was thus:

December 2nd, 2010: Stalker arrives, and assembly begins.
December 3rd, 2010: Base is done. Model body is primed.
December 4th, 2010: Basecoating is done, stripe is done.
December 10th, 2010: Legs and stuff are primed, then basecoated via airbrush.
December 12th, 2010: Assembly nearly complete.
December 16th, 2010: washes are complete.

May 8th, 2011: I glue on the head and antenna, wash the claws, paint the eyes, and dullcote it. Take pictures. Done. Total work to finish on this date was about an hour. Not sure why I procrastinated nearly 5 months on spending that one hour on finishing it.


If I could do it differently, I think I'd well, not lose that piece. I'd also do a little more detail on the legs, and maybe do that stripe on both sides. But, here we are, and I hope you guys enjoyed my rambling, complaining, and thinking aloud.

Niiiiiiiiice

TOP NOTCH!

Glad to see it finally finished. Good work.