Quick but significant update today. I went back to the Obliterators to continue cleanup and assembly to the point where painting would not be prohibited. However I soon realized that the “short clean-up session” would turn into a much more complex situation. Check out my progress and struggle with these beauties after the jump.
Starting out with the arms I quickly removed the pieces from the sprues with the clipper. For some reason the shoulder plate trims have been designed somewhere close to paper-thin, which makes it absolutely necessary to clip a good distance away from the edge of the model and clean up later.
Never a welcome sight to see your cast is not as good as it seemed to be, but a good modeller should be able to make the best out of any situation. As gamers would say, less crying, more playing. Let’s see if I can at least conceal the errors on the model and then I’ll think of actual remedies like repairing the shoulder pads.
Next up I moved on to the bodies. As before, the plan was to assemble the chest and the legs together to form a nice, paint-friendly canvas. As before, the chest pieces and legs that are supposed to go together are packaged in their own sprues. Here’s the build-up phase:
Needless to say I was a little disappointed to see so many bubbles on delicate parts like chains, hoses and even fingers! This will test my patience to the limit it seems. But the rewards will be so much more when I’m done with them.
It’s always a good idea to do some research on how the models should look like before assembly by either checking other blogs, the net or the box art itself. I realized its importance when I clipped away the remaining Obliterator pieces from their sprues. Since the demonic flesh and the terminator armor fuses on so many places in indiscernible ways it is very difficult to figure out which part is sculpted detail or just some resin flash in hiding!
The GW paint job is great, both as inspiration and as a way to check the parts on your models!
Scrubbing the models with an old, soft toothbrush really helps getting rid of the excess however for the more stubborn pieces you have to carefully inspect every little millimeter on the pieces. It gets extra fun when looking at tiny pieces like faces!
An old cast but still conveys the agony these guys are in so well.
Assemblies and model preparations are going better than expected. I like working with resin, much less resistance than plastic which suits my style of incremental, little changes. I find myself damaging plastic more due to the sheer force I apply during scraping, but resin was a much better medium in comparison.
And for the closing part some finished shots.
For the coming session I have some more assemblies going, but this may take more time to prepare than what I’ve been up to so far. Let’s see if I can handle that one as well before I start priming the models in the weekend.
See you next time!
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