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For a start he cheats by not changing the front end, so that is the secret to it really. You can handle the rest, just a case of knowing where to cut.

Looking forward to it, and has to be a chemboys rig.

I'm going to pick up some magnets with my paycheck Friday and start frankensteining this beast.

Also.... tell me.

If there were something.... weird... in your neighborhood, who would you call?

Hello everybody and welcome back to this curious brand of insanity known as my blog. After many weekends of the Three P's (Plotting, Planning, and Procrastination) I have figured out what to do with my Hexblade.

Firstly, I needed to trim the front plates. They have little pegs that are to be glued into either side's tracks. So I snipped those off.





And it fits nicely into place when its sanded down a bit. Like so.



Then I repeated the process on the other front plate







Next! Onto the Baneblade's top piece. I cut it out and cleaned the edges.



Then I glued in the demolisher cannon and glued the front piece to it (as well as a couple of minor little detail pieces).





Originally, I was going to have the grates open and maybe model a mechanic poking around inside.



But with the turret added on, it won't work. So I eventually closed it. :(





Then I built the front turret.







Fits like a glove!



Then I glued all the viewports into place.



And then, once I found them in the mess of sprues, I added the heavy bolters to the turret.







Now I cut some sprue and glued magnets to it. These will hold the front piece down snugly.



Which has magnets on its underside.



From there I built the big turret. (Note the magnet in the gun piece).



And the corresponding magnet in the barrel (no clue what it is, my barrel knowledge is limited).





Nice and secure!



Oh it looks beautiful!



My god, it looks almost complete!





So far, magnetizing this has been far easier than I was expecting. I love it! I hope you all do too.

That's all I've got for you guys this time. As always, thoughts, comments and criticism are welcome

Thank you all for watching. Subscribe if you enjoy my thread and would like to see more. And as always I will SEE YOU in the next update.

BYE BYE!!!!!

Looking good.

Magnetising weapons is always a good idea for tanks.

EDC

Pretty cool start bud. Looks good so far.

If I remember right from the vid, that barrel is supposed to swap around!

evildrcheese wrote:Looking good.

Magnetising weapons is always a good idea for tanks.

EDC

Thank you! I hope it continues this smoothly.

Camkierhi wrote:Pretty cool start bud. Looks good so far.

If I remember right from the vid, that barrel is supposed to swap around!

Yes. The other barrel is the long one. Its hollow all the way through, so I'll need to stuff some putty in the end to hold the magnet.

This is another one of those big kits that I've always wanted to have a go at. You seem to be making great progress so far,
and nice work with the magnets.

 hk1x1 wrote:
This is another one of those big kits that I've always wanted to have a go at. You seem to be making great progress so far,
and nice work with the magnets.

Thanks HK. The magnets at the front thus far are just to hold the front panel down snug, not really necessary. The whole top section fits down in there pretty tightly on its own with no real effort. But it looks great! I can't wait to paint it!

Except that I have no idea where these convict scum would get a Baneblade...

No update to tonight guys. I'm battling the creeping crud. It was my Christmas gift. It sucks... I really wanted to work on my baneblade too :(

Hope you feel better soon.

And the Baneblade is obviously a relic they found under a tarp in a barn out back. Bit rusty but a doer upper!

Heh
I can see it now.

A hoity toity commissar from some other army stares at a bunch of Chem-Dogs climbing all over a Baneblade.

"You there! Men! Where did you get this machine!?"

The Chem-Dogs all stop, look at one another and then as a chorus.

"Found it."

I may have splurged and picked up a manticore yesterday. >.> It will be difficult to magnetize, but I think I can do it.

Hey there everyone! Happy New Year and all that jazz! Welcome to the first installment of what I call a P&M blog but in reality is little more than a desperate cry for attention and a sobbing plea to notice me (especially to any nerdy ladies present. Ladies. ).

I have an update on my Hexblade, if you can believe it. With the holidays and being sick on the holidays I missed a work day on this, but made some decent headway up until I hit a pretty big snag. I'll elaborate when it comes to it.

But for now! On to the madness!

Now, I know this little extra bit is from the command sprue, but it looks so dang good I just had to include it.



Then I added a spotter? Navigator? Instigator?



Yeah, instigator seems to be the right word. "What's that??? I can't hear you over there!!! Let me come closer!"



Then I finished fitting the other Baneblade barrel. Enter problem one. The barrel is stuffed with a wad of greenstuff, which was not compliant and is pushing the two barrel pieces apart (notice the gap)





It does give me a chance to try out the liquid greenstuff to see if I can patch it. If not, I'll pry it open, scrape out the greenstuff and try again. I just want it in there to hold the magnet in place.



Then I added the exhaust pipes to the back of the tank. It looks great.



Enter the tow hooks.

Sarge: May I introduce our new, light reconnaissance vehicle.

Sarge: It has four inch armor plating, mag bumper suspension, a mounted machine gunner position, and total seating for three. Gentlemen, this is the M12 LRV! I like to call it the Warthog.

Simmons: Why Warthog, sir?

Sarge: Because M12 LRV is too hard to say in conversation, son.

Grif: I know, but why Warthog? I mean, it doesn't really look like a pig.

Sarge: (after a brief pause) Say that again.

Grif: I think it looks more like a puma.

Sarge: What in Sam Hell is a puma?

Simmons: Uh, you mean like the shoe company?

Grif: No, like a puma. It's a big cat, like a lion.

Sarge: You're making that up.

Grif: I'm telling you, it's a real animal!

Sarge: Simmons, I want you to poison Grif's next meal.

Simmons: Yes, sir!

Sarge: (pointing at the front of the Warthog) Look, see these two tow hooks? They look like tusks, and what kind of animal has tusks?

Grif: A walrus.

Sarge: Didn't I just tell you to stop making up animals?!

Then I added this... little... whatever the hell it is.



Now comes the problem. You see this piece.



This piece is a problem. It goes there. And...



.back here. I don't have any idea how to glue it into place or to magnetize it. Ideas?

Maybe I can glue some rails made from sprue in place to hold that panel up. It just drops right in right now, nothing holds it up. It will be super loose, but I don't see a way to magnetize it that one look bizarre.

Does it just drop in at either end?

Thin slithers would look ok. What about small angle plates?

Do you have to turn it over, or could you keep it the same way up and add a couple tags on the top to catch it in place?

Also remember you only need to put magnets in the cover, you could try gluing a steel rod down through where needed for the magnets to grab?

Just thoughts.

Looking good bud. I am sure you will sort the barrel out.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Does it just drop in at either end?

Yes. Front and back of the beast.

Thin slithers would look ok. What about small angle plates?

I'm afraid I don't follow?

Do you have to turn it over, or could you keep it the same way up and add a couple tags on the top to catch it in place?

I suppose I don't have to, but I want to in order to maintain model similarity. (Not cheating like in that video!

Also remember you only need to put magnets in the cover, you could try gluing a steel rod down through where needed for the magnets to grab?

The only thought I've had was to drill a whole smack dab in the center and putting a magnet in there. But then it kinda ruins the whole plate. The metal rod isn't a bad idea. Maybe I can glue it to either side and put a magnet in place in the treads to hold it?

Just thoughts.

Looking good bud. I am sure you will sort the barrel out.

The barrel won't be a huge deal either way. I just see this as a valid excuse to try out liquid greenstuff. My main focus of worry is that stupid reversible plate.

the rods should work, whenever i am magnetising i always forget that not everything needs a magnet, sometimes a much thinner piece of metal will do the job fine

Hey there Radu Lykan, hope you like my blog.

I think I'll try and just use a length of paper clip and see what I can manage.

Thanks for the help guys.

Hey there everyone and welcome back to another episode of "As The Lunatic Paints!" I have a progress update. Thanks to you lovely followers and your advice, I started on my Hexblade again.

Firstly, there's the turret. The greenstuff didn't expand too much, so I think we're good to try my liquid greenstuff on it later.





So I took this paperclip and snipped it apart.



I then took my file and did my best to file a groove into each end. Kinda hard to see, but its there.



Then I glued the paperclip into each groove. This will be held by the magnets.



"But what magnets, Weapon?" I can hear you saying. Well patience! I've got this! I snipped some pieces of sprue and made a sort of pedestal and then glued them against the inside of the tank.



On each side.



I glued them to the front portion too. And then I added magnets to the top.



Next came the turret! I didn't see this before, but there's a freaking peg in there. Proof positive that GW tries to say "No! No magnetizing!"



Well I say "Tough gak GW!! I do what I want!"





Hahaha!!! Eat that!!!



BAM! Turret! In place!



Next up, the Mega Bolter! The Baneblade build I actually wanted. But I figured, make the most of my kit. Right?



Check it out guys! The piece in place with the paperclip and the turret.



And the reverse, the piece in place in the back.





And the best news is, none of what I did affected my other top!



That's all I've got this time guys. Thoughts, comments and criticisms are welcome. And I will see you all in the next update.

Bye bye!!

Great job with the magnetizing.

Also "Found it" I just lol'd so loud it woke up the wife.....

Excellent magnetising skills.

This project is coming along nicely.

EDC

Theophony wrote:Great job with the magnetizing.

Also "Found it" I just lol'd so loud it woke up the wife.....

Disclaimer: xXWeaponPrimeXx is not to be held responsible for any harm that comes from reading his blog.

evildrcheese wrote:Excellent magnetising skills.

This project is coming along nicely.

EDC

Thanks EDC. Its coming along quite well. I've only broken like 3 or 4 things I haven't shown you guys. But you won't be able to tell what from the pictures.

Knew you would pull it off, see.

I full blame you guys Cam. Without your helpful advice nothing would ever happen here.

Sorry about the lack of an update this week guys. I was housesitting for my mom again, and for some reason an abundance of cat piss completely kills my creativity.

I will get some baneblade work done this weekend.

In the meantime, have some music.

Tasty biomasss for Hive weaponprime. Good worksss

You're welcome Hissy. I look forward to seeing what you make from all this biomass.

Just read through the entire blog (again). I love how the Baneblade's coming along, and the "Found it" made me chuckle. Keep up the good work!

Thanks War Kitten. I'll expand upon that whole little bit once the Baneblade is done. For now it's really just a placeholder.

Glad you like it though.

Hello everyone and thank you for subjecting yourselves to my P&M blog once again!

I bring you some more progress on my Hexblade.

So, I finally looked at the back of the instructions and saw that these two pieces should not be glued together.



Oops. So I snapped them apart (since the barrel inserts into the other so... yeah...

Then I filled them with green stuff to hold some magnets. It hurts to look at, maybe I can file them flat when they're dry.


Then I took the other barrel...



And finally glued a magnet into it.



Also, this barrel shouldn't be glued in either.... but I can't bring myself to tear it off. Maybe I can saw it. Maybe I'll just not care. I haven't decided.



Now for some real progress!



The turrets! Man, look at all the bits. So I built the lascannon turrets.



And the I ran into a snag again.

These are the inserts for the turrets. How can I magnetize these so that I can swap them out as I wish?



That's all I've got this time guys. Thoughts, comments and criticisms are welcome. And I will see you all in the next update.

Bye bye!!