Allegedly, every cloud has one. I decided to strip another mech, because I chipped it and trying to correct that the problem led to me peeling off a whole chunk of paint. However, looking on the the bright side, I can magnetize the torso, which is an upside.
When I started this conversion I only had one Grizzly, but in the intervening months two more have come my way.
Both of those were in better condition than my original, though still exhibiting casting flaws, and the one thing bugging me about my model was the casting flaw. So, razor saw in hand, I started cutting parts off one of the spare Grizzly's.
I've also taken the opportunity afforded me by breaking the model down
into its component parts to clean up what had been hard to reach spots
of filler, and make everything look tidier in the process.
Okay, that's a bit of an epic journey for such a small improvement, but that's the way I roll. Okay, that's it until next time. Catch you all on the bounce.
It sucks that you had to strip a painted model. I myself had a priming incident with my whole army (3-4 full squads IIRC) when I first got into blitz and had to strip them all. The black primer (likely due to the heat and humidity) went on like I blew on ground charcoal. At least you got to fix the casting mistake. Out of curiosity, how many have you had with the RAFM bits? As you know, it was a consistent problem for me as well (including missing bits!).
ReplyDeleteA year ago this would've have devastated me. Fortunately, I'm feeling more like my old self, and old me tends towards being optimistic: seeing opportunities in misfortunes.
DeleteBesides, even better news – sort of – I've decided to start replicating replacement parts like aerials etc., so that I can complete those models missing parts.
Finally, Ral Partha casting seems hit and miss to me. Part of the problem I think is down to the damn size of the models.
For instance the Mamba I got from you that is in a kneeling pose shows flow faults from the metal or mold not being hot enough. If only they had split the legs from the torso; though in fact I think they would also have needed to split the legs into two parts too.
However, one of the Grizzlies I acquired was near damn perfect. So my other thought is that there are a lot of variables: mold heated up; metal at right temperature; mold wear; caster skill etc., etc..