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All I have to say is WOW! I went out and got myself a cordless dremmel at crappy tire for $120 and it cut my modeling time in half! I just did a Tau empire box in about 3 hours which is way better than the 6 or 7 hours the last box took me!

They're fabulous for metal, and good for making really big holes in plastic, but I'm puzzled as to what you used one for when assembling a Tau Empire box...

That's easy! You just set the Dremmel to "10," put it in the box with the sprues, then close the box and shake it up for a few minutes.

Open the box and Viola! Iron Warriors!... or sometimes Dark Eldar.

I am guessing he is referring to the insanely quick mold line removal, sprue cutting, and flash removal. No more clipping and filing with the ol dremmel. I agree it cuts the times in half, especially because most of your time is removing the pieces and cleaning them, not putting them together. The multitude of dremmel heads makes it a great tool for everything. I have a corded dremmel, but its a powerful model that could saw through a pewter monolith, should one ever exist. Cheers to your dremmel tool!

 

Bjorn

Yeah, Dremmels are great until you drill a hole in your finger (a mistake you only make onceI hope). 

I've been working on Tau lately, and never removed my Dremmel from the box.  Too much plastic and the minimal amount of metal figs in the army require little to no conversion.  Heck, even the Fusion gun stealth suits were just nipped off, then glued on and green stuffed a bit.

I'm actually not a fan of using a dremel for many modeling projects. I find it tends to slip, even at low speeds, and destroy detail on a model. I generally use it to gouge large areas of pewter out when I'm working on an extreme conversion, but I never use it for pinning or cutting. I find my jeweller?s saw, pin-vice and exacto knife are easier to control and offer more precision. I'm sure it gets easier to control the dremel with time, but I'd rather not sacrifice my models on the altar of experience Although I can see the utility of a dremel for drilling- my hand gets really cramped when I have to pin large pewter models. At least lead models are a breeze to pin.

Most of what I use mine for is drilling into pewter for pinning. I agree it helps a lot with that, but I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable using it on plastic...

I've had good experiences drilling into plastic with pinning with mine. Only bad experience was breaking a drill bit while drilling into a pewter model.

Wait...

We're NOT supposed to drill holes in our fingers?

I've been using my Dremel wrong all these years

I'd never use a dremel for pinning. Way too high RPM and too little torque; just a matter of time before you snap a bit and it goes flying into something soft.

One of the guys at brushthralls had a good story about using a dremel for drilling out pin holes in his Man O' Wars. Pin broke, sent a piece of man o' war flying through his wall.

"We're NOT supposed to drill holes in our fingers?"

i was begining to think i was the only one!

"I find my jeweller?s saw, pin-vice and exacto knife are easier to control and offer more precision."

i'm glad i'm not the only one that feels "old school" works better.

I feel the same way, but a dremel is > than a pin vise, for 99% of my needs.

When you need alot of material removed fast, dremel. When you need to cut the head off of some dude with a high collar, jeweller's saw.

Actually I've been known to drill holes in my fingers with a pinvice. All because I don't pay attention when I'm drilling holes through bases for pinning.