Right, so I mentioned I was easily distracted. Well I managed to stay on course for all of whole days 
Note:-I think I can discuss this without breaching forum rules as I gather press moulding components of models in very limited quantity is fine for your own purposes, but if not if somebody could let me know I'll remove this double quicktime.
This all happened because I got my hands on some fantastic stuff called instant mold which is sold by coolminornot.com. It's basically this super awesome completely non stick, completely pliable after dunking in hot water, completely solid(ish) after dunking in cold water gift to modellers. It basically makes press moulds ridiculously easy and they hold an amazing amount of detail.
So to test this out I thought I'd have a go at a conversion which I'd been thinking about for a while of creating a model to represent the Eldar hornet. Although not an exact replica the footprint should be similar and it should be armed the same. The idea was to take a metal scorpion turret, saw out the twin pulsars, smooth it all down and then add in a couple of pulse lasers. I'd always been put off because chopping up the turret of a £12 tank on a whim with no guarantee that what will come out will even look half decent is a bit of a risk, but with instant mould I can create test copies with a press mould and greenstuff
below are pictures of the mould and the cast as it came out of it, the irregular and pitted surface is actually from the original which I think is quite impressive in some ways.
So with my greenstuff test models I was free to file, sand and chop away to my hearts content without worrying about damaging my original. Unfortunately my execution of adding some pulse lasers was a bit slapdash but was the best I could do with my big clumsy fingers and lack of skill. In the future if I was to repeat this I'd probably look for some forumware eldar support weapons I seem to remember as replacements.
I've painted two tests, mostly because I've never painted Saim-Hann or Eldar in general which is pretty self evident and also because greenstuff is a pretty soft substance to create press moulds of this scale (even when cured) and in handling I managed to squidge out some of the detail on the hornet model. The second is just to show what it would look like before I disfigured it with the ear-bud-esque (cue-tip-esque) pulse lasers.
All in all I think there's definite scope for "pressing" on with the metal model should it pique my interest again. What I can say is that instant mold has certainly left me with a “fine impression” of itself.
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