Assembly Notes: Genestealers
Use Pictures!
You should look up pictures of the model in the Tyranid Codex
as well as keep the box the model came in close by. The picture
on the cover of the box and the pictures in the Codex will
help guide you as to the intended posture and appearance,
which can be very helpful, even if you want to convert the
model.
Basic Guidelines
- Do not put the body into the slottabase until you are
happy that the flash is trimmed adequately. The pose of
the model will make it hard to trim the flash once it is
in the base.
- Do not accidentally mix up the bases and bodies!
There are two types of bases, arms, and bodies. You can
make arms work for the "wrong" bodies, but they
do not fit as well and you might have to a tiny bit of putty
work or something similar.
- The bases are not all standard slottabases, some are
shorter, be careful not to put a short model in a long slot.
- I used polystyrene cement for all joining needs with this
model.
Materials
Procedure
- Make some of my Weeblanid
bases for the Genestealers.
- Cut pieces from sprue.
- Clean most of the flash off bodies with knife (see
Assembly Notes: Gaunts).
- Glue the body into the base (see
Assembly Notes: Gaunts).
- Clean most of the flash off arms with knife.*
- Glue arms into the body. You should do all of the right
arms in sequence and all of the left arms in sequence so
that you can quickly refine your gluing technique for that
given part as you go.
- Wait for at least 15-30 minutes for the glue to cure.
The longer, the better.
- Use Tenax and a brush to clean up the remaining flash
(there is a page on this
technique).
- If this is the same night that you started, I would put
the models away for the night and wait until the next day
so that the glue can thoroughly cure and you can safely
handle the models.
- Clean models with soap and water, dry them, and start
painting!
* - focus on heavy flash and easily reached mold lines. Difficult
areas and/or creases at joints will be handled later with
Tenax.
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