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Hi, all.

I’ve got an issue with my Imperial Guard Valkyrie. I haven’t included pictures, as to be honest I don’t think they’ll help.

The issue is, the Valkyrie decided to fall apart on me. Ok, I’m a newbie when it comes to table top games, I’ve only been building and painting for less than a year, and I’ve played less than ten games, and lost them all I might add, but I can follow instructions, (no matter how awful they were. Thanks, GW.) and nothing else, touch wood, has fallen apart on me. So I have no idea why it’s happened. The Valkyrie hasn’t even been rough handled. The ungrateful mound of plastic is treated better than a glass vase.

It’s not the whole model, annoyingly it’s just the crew. One day the crew detached themselves from the model proper and were rattling around in the cockpit cavity. Subsequently all the consoles have come away from the pilots’ chairs, and the chairs themselves have parted way, too.

I managed to get the separate pieces out of the cockpit, but now the inside of the cockpit and the pilots’ themselves are all melted to Hell because of the glue, and I cannot get them back inside, and I’m very reluctant to tear the Valkyrie to pieces again. At the moment it’s just a Valkyrie with no pilots and a great bloody gapping hole in the cockpit. My friends call it “The Ghost Valkyrie.”

So, what to do?

There’s only two ways I can think of getting round this - unless I simple cover the cockpit with the canopy and paint the glass, which I do not want to do.

1) Try and repair the thing by gluing all the pilots’ bits together and trying to permanently attach the little sods by forcing them into the cockpit and drilling them in place, without damaging the model. Or something to that effect.

Or:

2) I’m thinking maybe I cover the cockpit with the canopy and cover the glass with something, card maybe, so that it resembles armour, and I say that the Valkyrie is piloted by a servitor flying by instruments.
2b) I try and kitbash a servitor pilot inside the cockpit then cover it up with the clear plastic canopy.

I know this is very wordy, for what is probably a very simple problem, but I thought I’d ask you guys, the experts, first.

So, does anyone have any ideas that’ll help, or tips on how best to repair/get around the problem?

Thanks for reading.

Kind regards,
Tower

"Easiest" thing to do would be to get some plasticard and make an armored cockpit. If you or your friends have some left over Rino bits you could make an eye slit ect....

Good luck.

 darefsky wrote:
"Easiest" thing to do would be to get some plasticard and make an armored cockpit. If you or your friends have some left over Rino bits you could make an eye slit ect....

Good luck.

That's what I'm thinking, yeah. Then I could paint it red and claim It to be a Mechanicum Valkyrie, or something.

 Tower75 wrote:

 darefsky wrote:
"Easiest" thing to do would be to get some plasticard and make an armored cockpit. If you or your friends have some left over Rino bits you could make an eye slit ect....

Good luck.

That's what I'm thinking, yeah. Then I could paint it red and claim It to be a Mechanicum Valkyrie, or something.

Or just something like the pilot go sick of being shot at....

You didn't by chance use the GW plastic glue did you?

It has a reputation for being less than useful.
Overpriced and less than useful.

 chromedog wrote:
You didn't by chance use the GW plastic glue did you?

It has a reputation for being less than useful.
Overpriced and less than useful.

Yup, but it was the thick-glue, not that thin, useless stuff, though. I thought I was going to be ok, as I say, nothing else has fallen apart. One day, though - pop - and the pilots detach themselves.

Paint the inside of the canopy? It would just look like darkened glass?

 Tower75 wrote:

 chromedog wrote:
You didn't by chance use the GW plastic glue did you?

It has a reputation for being less than useful.
Overpriced and less than useful.

Yup, but it was the thick-glue, not that thin, useless stuff, though. I thought I was going to be ok, as I say, nothing else has fallen apart. One day, though - pop - and the pilots detach themselves.

It doesn't matter which version you used, they are both useless. Plastic glue should be thin anyway. Next time use Testor's Model Masters with the metal needle. I know a lot of people like the Revell brand too. Once something is glues with real plastic glue it will never come loose again.

 Todosi wrote:

 Tower75 wrote:

 chromedog wrote:
You didn't by chance use the GW plastic glue did you?

It has a reputation for being less than useful.
Overpriced and less than useful.

Yup, but it was the thick-glue, not that thin, useless stuff, though. I thought I was going to be ok, as I say, nothing else has fallen apart. One day, though - pop - and the pilots detach themselves.

It doesn't matter which version you used, they are both useless. Plastic glue should be thin anyway. Next time use Testor's Model Masters with the metal needle. I know a lot of people like the Revell brand too. Once something is glues with real plastic glue it will never come loose again.

Cheers for the info.

I think I've decided to 'plate' the glass in armour. I'll use plasticard, or something. I might even look quite cool.

I find that a heavily washed metallic tends to look quite pleasing for cockpits ascwell. This one is copper with a heavy chestnut ink wash

Ok. I've definitely decided to plate the canopy in "armour", and claim that it's a servitor flown Valkyrie.

So, other then plating the canopy, can any one recommend any ideas as to how else I could make my Valkyrie look servitor-piloted? I'm thinking that if it is a Valkyrie that's being flown by a brain-dead, century-old cyborg I should really attempt to make the model stand out a bit, but I can't really think of what else I could do to it.

Any ideas will be a big help.

 Tower75 wrote:
Ok. I've definitely decided to plate the canopy in "armour", and claim that it's a servitor flown Valkyrie.

So, other then plating the canopy, can any one recommend any ideas as to how else I could make my Valkyrie look servitor-piloted? I'm thinking that if it is a Valkyrie that's being flown by a brain-dead, century-old cyborg I should really attempt to make the model stand out a bit, but I can't really think of what else I could do to it.

Any ideas will be a big help.

Some type of antenna or comm piece if you're going with the remote flown story. Something to represent enhances sensors if you're thinking he's in the cockpit. Additionally, you could run to an instrument store, pick up some guitar wire and give it extra cabling for a more mechanical look.

I've never had an issue with the thin GW plastic glue.

I've used GW for the four years I've been gaming, and I've never had problems with it, especially nothing like models, or parts of models melting.. o_o

Just in case anyone's interested; I've completed my Mechanicus Valkyrie. I went with option 2.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/544145.page