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Ohhh, yes! Daddy like!

Captain Brown wrote:
So Tread Heads I started updating the vehicles with a severely damaged Chimera I received in trade that was going to be a static terrain piece as the turret was glued to the body and lots of parts were missing. I started adding some parts, but then broke the frame and that let me even the tracks and make the model level and stable and it no longer looked like a warped Chimera so I decided to save the tank and refurbish it.

CB

I love this... "I broke it so badly while trying to fix the horrible mess that it was easier for me to make it properly"

And an excellent job it is too. Thanks for sharing.

 Flinty wrote:

Captain Brown wrote:
So Tread Heads I started updating the vehicles with a severely damaged Chimera I received in trade that was going to be a static terrain piece as the turret was glued to the body and lots of parts were missing. I started adding some parts, but then broke the frame and that let me even the tracks and make the model level and stable and it no longer looked like a warped Chimera so I decided to save the tank and refurbish it.

CB

I love this... "I broke it so badly while trying to fix the horrible mess that it was easier for me to make it properly"

And an excellent job it is too. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, although the turret will never move again (due to the amount of plastic cement used by the previous owner).

Here is another rescue, although I did not take a photo before the bath in Simple Green.

The Warboss when stripped of the partial paint job it arrived in.



Then with some paint:



Cheers,

CB

Some more Tau Fire Warriors.



Because there were a lack of left arms with the Fire Warriors I did things like the one I added the binoculars to, taking spare bits to make models as there was a limited number of left arms and when on was really glued to slag I wanted no model left behind.




Cheers,

CB

 Elbows wrote:
Lovely work. Real shame the plastic GW version never matched the looks of that thing.

There's no plastic version... (although it has been updated to a hybrid resin/plastic kit). You're thinking of the Valkyrie.

Right, I really mean that the plastic Valkyrie kit should have been used to make a plastic version of that.

 Elbows wrote:
Right, I really mean that the plastic Valkyrie kit should have been used to make a plastic version of that.

The hybrid kit is a breeze to build so I'm not really sure where the benefit in that would be.

From shattered bits, to primed and rebuilt.



To painted.



Cheers,

CB

ahh...so many lovely rescue jobs here!...I always love seeing a poor beaten-up old model being brought back to life

...wish I'd spotted this thread much earlier, I'd say at least half the stuff I've painted has been some form of ebay-rescue

anyway, I've just got done with a full rework of this chaos land raider I found on ebay a few weeks ago...granted, in a way, it does look a little worse off now than it did when I got it, but that's by design!

...from this:



...to this:

Some great looking stuff, those poor abused models are getting a great new home!

I picked up a Greater Brass scorpion conversion a couple of weeks ago. Here is the

before (how I got it from ebay)



and after:

Whoa, some lovely work. Awesome. I'm diggin' the Land Raider, and that's from a guy who isn't a fan generally of overly Nurgled things!

Well, I thought it was long overdue this old fella got a freshen up. One after your own heart, Elbows.

From this...


Into the dip and scrubbed as much as soft 80's lead will allow.


And back to life with a nice new red paint job.


Not the best photography I'm afraid but you get the idea. Old Eldar are Immortal!

Great stuff everyone.

Cheers,

CB

Crowe, nice save! Arguably one of the oldest "Space Elf" models back when they were just more or less mercenaries - before the Eldar were a real thing. Great save.

Thanks man. I couldn't believe the layers of paint and the flash and mould-lines still on this fella underneath it all. The mould-line was a big nasty step too! Took some serious filing and fixing!
And the arm was broken off before. The paint was just so thick you couldn't see the join! Anyway, always glad to resurrect a classic. I've also got some GorkaMorka metals ready for an overhaul.

These were another eBay rescue. After a bath in Simple Green.



Cheers,

CB

Eldar for the Eldar God(s)!

 Elbows wrote:
Eldar for the Eldar God(s)!

I have gathered quite the quantity of old metal Eldar in my quest to do a Biel-Tan army with no finecast. Unfortunately I haven't taken any 'before' photos before they got thrown into acetone, but I'll put some 'after' ones up once the rescues are complete.

Here is a Forge World Wave Serpent (from the first flight). Striped and repainted after being purchased on eBay.

In fact it was two eBay purchases, one for the tank (which was dark green) and had some strange metal bike parts for weapons. Another for the Shuriken Cannons in the turret which were damaged and required new pins.



The hard to see Shuriken Cannon on the hull was a regular one converted to hang below the bridge between the two sides, it is magnetized like the turret.

Cheers,

CB

Nice work. I haven't touched a brush or model in a month, but I just received some terminators for a project we're doing locally...and of course I went old metals, a bunch of nasty ones from eBay. Should be posting them over the next week or so.

Here are the first two treasures.

Heh. I used to have that librarian, until I lost/someone stole my case of ancient stuff. I got it when I was about 12 when GW released the metallic paint set. It was definitely enough to.make your eyes bleed even without the warp powers

I've got a little box of older metal 40k and Fantasy models I grabbed at some yard sale for a few bucks. I want to rescue them, but the problem is- they all seem to have corrosion on them. What's the best way to get this off?

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:
I've got a little box of older metal 40k and Fantasy models I grabbed at some yard sale for a few bucks. I want to rescue them, but the problem is- they all seem to have corrosion on them. What's the best way to get this off?

what do you mean by corrosion?...like splotchy whitish stuff?...I've had that on a lot of old metals, honestly I just cleaned up the mouldlines and flash, and primed and painted them as normal...it didn't seem to have any effect...maybe give them a seeing to with an old toothbrush and some warm soapy water if you want to be on the safe side though

Yeah, if they're genuinely corroded you're talking about lead-rot...and that's impossible to fix (and can spread, so ditch them). I've seen a lot of lead-rot horror stories. However, if they're post what...1992-1993(?) they shouldn't be lead, and thus would be unlikely to have any kind of corrosion.



Generally powdery grey looking. That sucker is done, from what I've read - perhaps I'm wrong though. Worth looking into.

 Elbows wrote:
Yeah, if they're genuinely corroded you're talking about lead-rot...and that's impossible to fix (and can spread, so ditch them). I've seen a lot of lead-rot horror stories. However, if they're post what...1992-1993(?) they shouldn't be lead, and thus would be unlikely to have any kind of corrosion.

Spoiler:

Generally powdery grey looking. That sucker is done, from what I've read - perhaps I'm wrong though. Worth looking into.

eesh...hadn't heard of that before actually...looks nasty

Here is a second Forge World Wave Serpent (from the first flight). Striped and repainted after being purchased on eBay (it was originally some sort of Green and Black).



Again this model has a converted Shuriken Cannon on the hull as this model did not have that option due to it's age.

Cheers,

CB

Hey, that's pretty much what my Terminator Captain looked like when I picked him up. Great mini! Had to have him for my Ravens.
Really looking forward to seeing your work on both of these.



Captain Brown: great work on those grav tanks- takes a lot of time and effort to finish one of those suckers let alone two. Fair play for getting them done and bringing them up to such a nice standard. Excellent result there.

Very cool! Yeah I have a box of others I need to snap pictures of soon!

Cool thread, I recently bought 6 Bretonnian grail Knights and a Pegasus Knight. The Pegasus Knight has been difficult and he was plastic cemented to the saddle. Will post pics soon but it's turned out well.

Here is the third Forge World Wave Serpent (from the first flight). Repainted after a good scrub of simple green.

This model was even more of a mixture than the previous two...the Falcon portion of the model was mine and when I decided to convert it the original paint scheme had to be updated. Then I got back and jewels in a trade on WarSeer. Then an eBay purchase of the turret and the forward bridge section (which were painted in a red scheme).



Again this model has a converted Shuriken Cannon on the hull as this model did not have that option due to it's age.

Cheers,

CB