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| Choke
down a PB&J sandwich and then get
to work! The group gathers for some
lunchtime
assembly. |
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 ssembling
the company was a messy matter of sprues and
glue. I preferred an assembly line
approach. This method just makes the most sense
to me when I have multiples of something that
needs to be built. The only drawback to this
method is that if you mess up something, you
tend to
mess them up on all your models! Luckily, I had
some experience assembling Leman Russ tanks,
so
there was little fear of making any mistakes
(in a multiple fashion) throughout my squadron.
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| Go-Go
and Marc each assembling the tanks
in
their own way. |
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| Assembly
line style is pretty much the way to
go if you ask me. |
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| Marc
has things down, with a finished tank
under his belt. |
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Go-Go, on the other hand, preferred to assemble
each tank in a rather haphazard fashion. He
finished
one bit like the treads, then started on the
turret. Basically, he just built stuff he felt
like building,
then slapped it all together over time. Also,
he clipped out just about every bit from the
sprues before beginning. This led to a few instances
of "Hey, where's my battlecannon?" due
to the sprawl of bitz and sprues on the table.
He managed to lose a few bitz in the chaos, so
tank 423 will just have to make due with only
one exhaust. |
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| Keeping
wheel bits in a container made tread
work much easier. |
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| Go-Go
and his box of Leman Russ bitz.
Good
idea or bad idea? |
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| Another
lunchtime assembly has come and gone,
leaving a mess. |
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Marc, being the methodical creature that he
is, built each tank, piece by piece, following
the instructions to the last before moving onto
the next one. In my mind, this was the slower
method, but like the turtle and the hare, his
approach finished first. Though
in my
defense, I had to build the company command tank
as well! |
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No one way was better than the other (though
Go-Go did lose some stuff...), and it's not
like
there was any real race to finish first. But
it was neat to document how each of us went
about
assembling the tanks. The end result was all
that mattered — a completely assembled
Tank Company!
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| Hunter-Killer
Missiles were affixed to
the sides of our turrets. |
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| Marc
swapped the standard tank commander
head for this one. |
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| Making
the hull Heavy Bolters was
a simple
bit of modeling work. |
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| The
skull army badge being glued
in place on the turret. |
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| A
simple way to show my
tank commander climbing out. |
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| The
winged skull motif ended up fitting
well on the track guard. |
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In terms of modeling work, there was little
to none. The only bit we had to fashion ourselves
were the hull heavy bolters. Making them was
a simple matter of chopping up bitz that were
already on the sprues. Command tank turrets had
some extra detail lavished upon them in the
form
of a commanders peeking out of the cupolas. The
army badges were added at this point as well.
We placed the small skull towards
the front left of each turret and the wings (which
further
pushed the ideas used from the Baneblade on the
Apocalypse cover) onto the front
fenders
of the vehicles. The whole assembly process took
about three lunches and an evening of dedicated
glue
time. Now the painting sessions could begin.
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