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And I'm sure the emery boards would come in handy to someone

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Fine grade wet and dry A4 sheet about a quid
Bit of double sided tape for a few pennies
some scrap plastic card/empty plastic food container eg ice cream tub/margerine tub for free

Adhere and cut to size and shape of choice
and gently whittle your cares away for a song

hth

BrookM wrote:- Citadel liquid green stuff: paint bottle of liquid green stuff. Water soluble, designed for (teehee) gapfilling and removing air bubbles. €2,95

Depending on how thick it is, I might grab this. A thicker solution would be good for smoothing over joints on Forgeworld models.

ps
Then they should have waited for October for the launch of Finecast and brought them out at the same time.
That way they would have given themselves time to iron out the production glitches

Lorizael wrote:Metal files destroy resin models. Xacto knives are also too sharp and harsh for resin- 1 slip and you've cut so far into it...

I've found neither of these to be true for my part. I have two sets of diamond files that do just perfectly on resin. Same with knives, though I'm careful not to use quite the sharpest blades at my disposal for the task.

Agamemnon2 wrote:

Lorizael wrote:Metal files destroy resin models. Xacto knives are also too sharp and harsh for resin- 1 slip and you've cut so far into it...

I've found neither of these to be true for my part. I have two sets of diamond files that do just perfectly on resin. Same with knives, though I'm careful not to use quite the sharpest blades at my disposal for the task.

Got to agree, at least with knives. All I've ever used for Finecast is a modelling knife, and just scraped it over a mold line to remove it. One scrape and it's gone completely. Flash is similarly easy to scrape off with a modelling knife.

Quite
I keep old Swann Morton blades for removing seam lines

If you are unsure practice on the sprue first

jspyd3rx wrote:If the new WD is out, whAt is on the back page please?

The back page shows off more Dreadfleets and as far as I can tell from flipping through the back, no November preview is shown.

Kroothawk wrote:

Flashman wrote:So let me get this right...
October WD will be promoting a product that is already sold out and some tools to make a rubbish modelling material less rubbish?

That is really weird. Promoting someting after it is supposed to be sold out. They really don't know how to use the WD and fill it with content.
I was hoping for Tyranids second wave, oh well.
Knowing GW, there is always the chance of secret Finecast releases that are hidden in the internal October price list for shops.

Revarien wrote: any word on the back page? Necrons?

jspyd3rx wrote:If the new WD is out, whAt is on the back page please?

Well? Any answer to this?

I'm sorry herr oberst, some of us catch sleep at night.

BrookM wrote:

jspyd3rx wrote:If the new WD is out, whAt is on the back page please?

The back page shows off more Dreadfleets and as far as I can tell from flipping through the back, no November preview is shown.

The dreadfleet preview was a couple pages from the back last WD (it was just that wanted poster).... anything similar? something ominous or the like? Thanks

Revarien wrote:

BrookM wrote:

jspyd3rx wrote:If the new WD is out, whAt is on the back page please?

The back page shows off more Dreadfleets and as far as I can tell from flipping through the back, no November preview is shown.

The dreadfleet preview was a couple pages from the back last WD (it was just that wanted poster).... anything similar? something ominous or the like? Thanks

No, just more pictures of Dreadfleet. All in all, most of the issue is taken up by Dreadfleet, with a wee bit of Fantasy thrown in, some Ogres and Sister of Battle battle missions. No Necron preview or anything, unless they hid it somewhere in one of the articles. Haven't gotten that far yet, still reading the Dreadfleet stuff.

BrassScorpion wrote: For $12.99 you can buy enough Green Stuff to last most hobbyists a few years.

No way, that thing only lasts me a month or so

Flashman wrote:So let me get this right...

October WD will be promoting a product that is already sold out and some tools to make a rubbish modelling material less rubbish?

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Only GW...

The price of the models goes up as the company uses cheaper base materials.

The cheaper base materials have a significant reduction in quality, despite being advertised as a dramatic improvement.

The company suddenly releases products for fixing models that were supposed to be a 'dramatic improvement'.

So... the new and improved models, which cost more, now have the additional cost of buying greatly marked up products for fixing the flaws, despite them being 'new and improved'.




Fething ridiculous.

Damn funny! But GW is trying hey? If they did everything right it would be so boring over here.

On a more sad note I will not be able to buy finecast at the current quality, just a nightmare that I'm not inclined to be a part of and that sucks because there are some sweet models that I still dont have... Lets see if in some years the quality improves and prices drop a bit... I know I know I need to wake up

Here I was thinking that Finecast were the highest quality miniatures in the world - the world! I mean, that's what 'What's On Sale Today' told me on the GW website, over and over again.

I guess that means that Finecast's mistakes are the highest quality mistakes in the world, and that these tools to fix them are the highest quality Finecast mistake fixing tools in the world.

The world!

BrookM wrote:

jspyd3rx wrote:If the new WD is out, whAt is on the back page please?

The back page shows off more Dreadfleets and as far as I can tell from flipping through the back, no November preview is shown.

Damn. I was really hoping... well, what everyone else was hoping, really. I guess the tombs remain silent a little longer.

Ouze wrote:

BrookM wrote:

jspyd3rx wrote:If the new WD is out, whAt is on the back page please?

The back page shows off more Dreadfleets and as far as I can tell from flipping through the back, no November preview is shown.

Damn. I was really hoping... well, what everyone else was hoping, really. I guess the tombs remain silent a little longer.

Chances are it'll be a "surprise" release.

A "mold line remover"? Sooo...an exacto-knife?

That really is a pointless issue of WD. Unless you have ordered the dread fleet i guess.

I think its good they are releasing the materials to fix finecasts, which are worth the extra cleanup effort imho just for the better painting and durability (as long as you don't live in a furnace)

Poor use of the mag though to be sure, they should have used it is a special pre order platform alongside the in-store push. I like buying WD looking at the models and day dreaming "maybe one day ill have those...". But then a whole issue dedicated to a limited edition product that you most likely wont be able to get unless you jump on it the day you get your mag. I liked the idea of Dread Fleet, i dont like it so much now its cost me a month of ogling nice new minis. The boats are nice but i don't really want to read a whole issue about a game i will defiantly never own.

its really a waste of games day too, big army release there would have gone down amazingly.

Issue 382 is mostly a primer for Dreadfleet, it also has hobby info on how to paint all the ships, do water effects and whatnot along with a short glimpse at how the rules work and how two of the many scenarios play out through bat-reps.

BrookM wrote:Issue 382 is mostly a primer for Dreadfleet, it also has hobby info on how to paint all the ships, do water effects and whatnot along with a short glimpse at how the rules work and how two of the many scenarios play out through bat-reps.

Which is why I'm looking forward to picking it up

RiTides wrote:

BrookM wrote:Issue 382 is mostly a primer for Dreadfleet, it also has hobby info on how to paint all the ships, do water effects and whatnot along with a short glimpse at how the rules work and how two of the many scenarios play out through bat-reps.

Which is why I'm looking forward to picking it up

Yaaaaay, another happy customer!

Cerebrium wrote:A "mold line remover"? Sooo...an exacto-knife?

Not quite. If it's what I think it is, it's a three-sized metal object that you use to literally scrape mould lines off. The benefit of it is that it doesn't have a 'blade', so you can really cut into something by accident unless you try. A friend of mine has one and uses it for mould lines.

Are there any more finecast releases this month?

-Loki- wrote:

BrookM wrote:- Citadel liquid green stuff: paint bottle of liquid green stuff. Water soluble, designed for (teehee) gapfilling and removing air bubbles. €2,95

Depending on how thick it is, I might grab this. A thicker solution would be good for smoothing over joints on Forgeworld models.

Back in my model-building days (WWII and such), used to make this at home...finely chopped up plastic sprue mixed w/ lots of plastic cement and stored in a glass bottle...melts/combines into a plastic "goop" which then dries hard and is easily sanded and such.

AJC

"From now on, the WD won't be the simple advertising tool from the past but will feature meaningful content for everyone in each issue. This issue will give you ... wanna buy Dreadfleet?"

So, emery boards.. like those little cardboard things your girlfriend, wife, mom and/or sister uses to file their nails? can't you just buy them at the drug store for like $1? Or are we paying extra for a laser etched 40k eagle thingy on the handle?

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Cerebrium wrote:A "mold line remover"? Sooo...an exacto-knife?

Not quite. If it's what I think it is, it's a three-sized metal object that you use to literally scrape mould lines off. The benefit of it is that it doesn't have a 'blade', so you can really cut into something by accident unless you try. A friend of mine has one and uses it for mould lines.

That's what it is, indeed. Micromark markets it as a "seam scraper", list price is $18.65 and Micromark sells it for $12.95

There are others available, but this is the only one we've tested that really works! No other tool smooths glue seams or removes parting lines and flash better than our Seam Scraper. The 3 super sharp cutting edges on the double-ended scraper blade are precision ground tool steel. The collet in the steel handle allows you to slide the scraper in and out to adjust for the amount of exposure you need. 2-3/4 inch long scraper blade. 4-1/2 inch long handle. Also deburrs aluminum, brass and other soft metals.

I can't find any real equivalent to the 'Flash Brush' on Micromark's site--and if they don't have it, then I am stumped.

Have you used one, Kan?


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"Seam-scraper," that is.

Yeah. They're pretty helpful tools.

I can see how that'd be the case on the bottom of a battleship model but on the flexed arm of a Guardsman?

Manchu wrote:I can see how that'd be the case on the bottom of a battleship model but on the flexed arm of a Guardsman?

Works pretty well even then. The whole point of it is that it runs along the moldline and removes it without scarring the plastic.

Looks weird but I'll give the modeling stuff a try. Liquid green stuff sounds dumb. I already have filla glu in 3 thicknesses and powda and wicking grade glue for it. TBH I think there is a level of crappyness with resin that's inherent to the medium but I dont like how obvious this looks. As for the boat game it doesn't say sold out on the UK site nor do I expect it to for at least a week. The thing is an indulgence and one that goes too far for my pockets.

The seam scraper sounds like potentially a decent product, though I feel my knife covers it for me. But might well be ideal for Little Johnny Butterfingers, who would otherwise shiv himself on an exacto blade.