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Post by CyberShadow on Nov 30, 2001 10:51:36 GMT -5
I thought that I would start a thread here for any ideas and tricks that you use when modelling, constructing, converting and painting your Gothic ships. For example, it has been suggested that you mark or paint the aspects on the base for front, rear, port and starboard - which seems like a good idea.
So, do you have an tricks? How do you base and pin your ships to keep them together? Do you leave the weapon bays off and stick them in with blu tac when you need them?
Let us know.
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Post by Khyron on Jan 27, 2002 19:07:12 GMT -5
Oh, my...where to begin? I convert a lot of things and half of my fleet is not standart. ;D Well, the most common thing I use is two-component epoxy glue. That takes 24 hours to harden properly, so I leave a spot to fix it with a drop of superglue. The two-component glue gives extreme toughness to the miniature. In one instance, one of my big dreadnoughts fell off the table and all I had to do was to glue a broken anntenna. Aside from that, I never glue the ship to the base, they break off too easily, at least with the bigger vessels. As for the aspects, well, I use the miniture to tell, I use the base to paint the ship's names on it. Oh...yes...I have found that a chees-knife (sorry mum) is an excellent tool for cutting plastic cruisers. As for conversions...the small plastic warship kits from Revell and other companies are extremely good when looking for bits. The big turrets from the battleships make excellent lances for bigger vessels, while the smaller ones make good dorsal weapons batteries or lance turrets. There are also masts, sensors and cranes you can always use. That's for now, I think.
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Post by stormking on Jul 19, 2002 4:55:58 GMT -5
i use blue tac and superglue to keep models on their stands, especially where the stand has broken, it seems to harden almost like concrete i'm not very good at conversions but i've found that if you put plastic glue, then green stuff, then plastic glue, spread the green stuff across the relevant portion of ship, then paint when dry it can make the ship seem as if it has a skin, not sure if it works with superglue
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