Hello folks,

I've been trying to get the Shadowsword Mk III assemblied for quiet a while. Try, give up, put aside, try, give up...

It's either to low, or to high, and whatever the sponsons just don't fit.    

What am I overlooking?  

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It would be nice to get lightspeed,
so far we can only reach slight speed.- Erik M
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Have you tried swearing at it?.. I find this helps with all my gluing, cutting and general assembly. When this fails it's time for Mr Hitty Hammer...

Where did you get these Shadowswords? Are they E40K? FW? what?..

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Mk III, E40 that is.

Sorry, no cuzzing, no hammering.  

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It would be nice to get lightspeed,
so far we can only reach slight speed.- Erik M
092b85658e746a91d343e53509d357744e56f641

Weeell, obviously this goes far beyond my area of expertise then... I'm all about the cuzzin' an' hammerin' me!

I do know that GW seemed to take great delight in providing very badly fitting models for E40K. Even though they did do a very cool looking line of models I could never seem to get any to fit first time either. Funny, but it never seemed to bother the GW staff when putting out books, they never once mentioned just how frightful the fitting of parts was in White Dwarf or in any of their E40K books/magazines. Odd, eh!?.

I've never had an E40K Shadowsword that hadn't already been assembled by the time I got it but I do recall having to go to town on all the models with a craft knife. Try fitting the wings to nine Harridans mate, you'd be cuzzin' blue after that.

This is the semi-helpful bit of my rant...

Try looking at the model for where the fit seems to mismatch. I bet there is too much metal in the join. When/If you spot it cut the little sod's heart out and test the joint before gluing. When gluing do one bit at a time and leave it until it's totally dry. This will take a loooong time.

Now that I have patronised you and talked a load of tosh I'm off. I hope it helped.

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Now that I have patronised you and talked a load of tosh I'm off. I hope it helped.

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It would be nice to get lightspeed,
so far we can only reach slight speed.- Erik M
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Once more my job is done!.. Hi-ho Silver awaaay!...   *Cue music*

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My head is full of War...

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That is pretty much my methodology also, though I try to abstain from the hitty hammer.

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I try, too... but it's always handy have to have it close by for that inevitable 'Basil Faulty' moment when it all just gets too much.

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My head is full of War...

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I managed to find the Dremel instead.
But high speed rotation and tin isn't the best of combinations... Looking around for a suitable "routing bit" I spotted a 3" nail. Cut it of and had a four sheer router bit!  

First one is a Mk I/II.
Second is Mk III that only has a little shaved of to allow it down between the side sponsons.
Third is a Mk III with the whole treatment. A bleeding lot of tin carved away.  

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It would be nice to get lightspeed,
so far we can only reach slight speed.- Erik M
092b85658e746a91d343e53509d357744e56f641

Third is a Mk III with the whole treatment. A bleeding lot of tin carved away.  

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My head is full of War...

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No no no, both are down now.  

And as for routing, I'm fairly used to it, this being my ~12th self-routed track:

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It would be nice to get lightspeed,
so far we can only reach slight speed.- Erik M
092b85658e746a91d343e53509d357744e56f641

No no no, both are down now.

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My head is full of War...

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Thanks.

Unfortunatly it's for sale now.
Upside is that it gives me a dedicated out of house location with a 12' by 8' table for battles.

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It would be nice to get lightspeed,
so far we can only reach slight speed.- Erik M
092b85658e746a91d343e53509d357744e56f641

Excellent!.. I guess you can furbish some BatReps for your own campaign now too?

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My head is full of War...

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We can hope, atleast.
And that one must be restarted somehow. That map is worth it.

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It would be nice to get lightspeed,
so far we can only reach slight speed.- Erik M
092b85658e746a91d343e53509d357744e56f641