 Editor in Chief Bill   | 10 May 2012 12:03 p.m. PST |
Writing in White Dwarf magazine, Chris Peach claims: …if you do want to change the position of something – if you wanted to reposition the arm on a Chaos Exalted Hero, for instance – all you need do is to heat the affected area up for a short time and then bend it to the desired position. Submersing the affected part in hot water (it doesn't have to be boiling) for thirty seconds to a minute will do the trick, or blasting it with a hair dryer for the same amount of time will work just as well. Do you find Citadel Finecast figures easy to reposition? |
| chang1701 | 10 May 2012 12:18 p.m. PST |
I've had varied success. Takes a good bit of patience. |
| richarDISNEY | 10 May 2012 12:56 p.m. PST |
NO. I have NOT found it that easy…
Downright headache…
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| Mako11 | 10 May 2012 1:07 p.m. PST |
It's a SNAP! ;-) At least that's the sound you'll hear. |
| Mithmee | 10 May 2012 1:12 p.m. PST |
ROTFLMAO! Well since I will never buy that junk I will never know and will never worry about hearing that sound. |
| Scott Kursk | 10 May 2012 9:02 p.m. PST |
It either works really well or absolutely snaps and you are toast. I found simple things like straighten a blade or slightly changing an arm position were pretty easy since I was using the dunk in warm water method. However, it's a total pain to work with if you want to get really creative. |
| x42brown | 11 May 2012 4:48 a.m. PST |
Not really tried yet. Shifted a tail a little using gentle heat and removed some skulls and spiky bits with a scalpel but nothing major. x42 |
| billthecat | 11 May 2012 11:49 a.m. PST |
Just melt it into a pool of goo and resculpt. Tah dah! |
| Scorpio | 11 May 2012 12:20 p.m. PST |
Please include a selection for "I've never tried to reposition a Finecast fig." |
| Scott Kursk | 12 May 2012 11:02 a.m. PST |
billthecat. I had a customer remark one time that he was going to start recasting his own GW minis using our plastic melted down. Since they'd still be 100% GW plastic, they'd be tournament legal. Biggest rules lawyer ever. Still, the idea works. Someone pointed out that some of the Chinese recasters ended up having nicer models since they used a better resin than Finecast on their recasts. What you gain in quality of resin you loose in resolution. |
| Manflesh | 14 May 2012 5:00 a.m. PST |
It would be more effective to cast figures in pasta than Finecast. In my experience of 'working' with this material, I've found that it's less to do with 'reposing' than 'fixing their mistakes'. Leigh |
