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Hey guys I got a rhino off ebay with a broken gun, and gunner so I'm trying to get the whole thing disassembled. I've had it soaking in LA's totally awesome for about 4 days now. Some of the parts started to come loose, but I'm not sure if that was due to the awesomesauce, or my prying. Now I'm trying to put it in the freezer over night as I heard this is another way to break down super glue bonds.

Does anyone else have any suggestions/advice for this little project?

If it was assembled with plastic cement, you're screwed short of sawing it apart. If it was assembled with super glue, try soaking it in some 'purple power' or 'super clean'. Same stuff different bottle... It will weaken if not dissolve the superglue bond.

 JWMarines wrote:
If it was assembled with plastic cement, you're screwed short of sawing it apart. If it was assembled with super glue, try soaking it in some 'purple power' or 'super clean'. Same stuff different bottle... It will weaken if not dissolve the superglue bond.

I think I'm going to stop trying to disassemble it, I was able to get the broken figurine off, but the gun isn't coming loose, and I had a bit of plastic breakage on the top hatch.

Can you recommend anything I could do with the gun to make the rhino look decent, and be ready for play? Maybe if I was able to shave down the broken part, and put a different gun on it? I don't know any ideas would be greatly helpful

Recommendations on how to fix work better if we have pictures to go from.

Otherwise we're just guessing the size of the black cat in the darkened room.

Show us a pic.

You can almost certainly saw off a broken gun nicely with a jeweller's saw, and cover up any defects with a new gun shield, or draping of camouflage net, that sort of thing.

Here are pics, what I did was cut the open hatch after I removed the guy to do a closed hatch instead of an open one.

You could file/cut/sand that gun mount off of the turret base and that would look alright. Or you could try to fix the gun mount with maybe a pin to hold the gun into the mount and then some putty work to reestablish the basic shapes of the gun mount-to-gun interface. Now, if you have a spare rhino hatch/turret thing... I would just cut that broken one out and replace it. It will be a bitch to get the bonded edges out of there, but it's possible.

Thanks man! I took your advice, and just tried to pop the little bugger out (I'm very new and unfamiliar with what will break a model, or simply remove a piece) It seems to have worked! Here is a picture



So now, my plan is to order a piece like this (the guy I was going to get it from apparently sold out yesterday, so if anyone knows any other bits merchants that would be appreciated as well

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WARHAMMER-40K-BIN-BITS-SPACE-MARINE-RHINO-DRIVER-and-GUNS-/360703730583?nma=true&si=%252B0W8qIRVug8gEGOCmyIjjT6%252BvE8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

(scroll down to see the listing.)

If you are handy with plasticard it is not too hard to make a new hatch youself.

In the future, I have found putting models int he freezer for a few hours weakens superglue bond. I have used this on vehicles and smaller models to pop heads and arms off.