"Time for a fracking whinge." Topic
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Brian Smaller | 30 May 2014 10:50 p.m. PST |
I really, really hate cavalry figures that do not fit the horses that they come with. You know the ones that even with bending and forcing with pliers they still don't fit on the mount and have a huge gap between man and beast. I am just about ready to throw the nine BTD Zulu Wars lancers I have through the wall. |
Brian Smaller | 30 May 2014 11:08 p.m. PST |
The problem is the legs don't straddle wide enough to fit the horse. No amount of bending will change that. Only choice is to either hack down the saddle/horses flanks, or thin out the legs of the rider. |
MHoxie | 31 May 2014 2:45 a.m. PST |
Mahouts on Successor elephants can be even worse. You've got to get them behind the head/ears (THE EARS!), and before the back rises up, complete with tower. A company should specialize in making mahouts; they can call themselves "Double-jointed Miniatures." Maybe I should have glued him on before fitting the tower
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Ottoathome | 31 May 2014 3:59 a.m. PST |
Dear Brian The stories I could tell you
I've pretty much solved the problems of fitting the rider onto the horse, but I work in 28mm-32mm, and I have a bit more to work with. I also have several dremels with router bits, files etc, lots of body putty etc. So brute force works every time. The problem that's even more insoluable is the rider that is TOO large for the horse. Those that have the saddle cast as part of the rider, not the horse, and when you put the rider on the horse it looks like you have a foot between the flanks of the horse and the saddle-- on each side. Luckilly the dremel and putty can be used. I don't have this with the old "Tradition" and "Suren" figures in 30mm, and I only get an occasional misfit and i'ts "not someting you'll notice on a flying horse." My real peeve is with riders that are too large for the horse, that is, out of scale, and horses that aren't posed like real horses. |
Cardinal Ximenez | 31 May 2014 5:48 a.m. PST |
Yep. I've always found it easier to whittle the horses flanks. DM |
DesertScrb | 31 May 2014 6:17 a.m. PST |
I thought this was going to be about oil and gas production. |
zoneofcontrol | 31 May 2014 9:12 a.m. PST |
"I thought this was going to be about oil and gas production." Altering the rider's crotch to fit in the saddle may well cause numerous gas and oil production problems! |
Henry Martini | 31 May 2014 4:05 p.m. PST |
There's been a lot of whinging about fracking – but only from those adversely affected by environmental destruction, air pollution, and ground water contamination. The frackers seem very happy to keep on fracking regardless. |
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