Even though it'd be unlikely that anyone would rotate all guns down and spot one doesn't go as far as the others, it bothered me a lot! I tried using my scalpel, but didnt want to break the new point, tweezers didn't cut it... in the end I remembered this little tool I used to cut my Ironman models. It's an extremely small but sturdy blade and I managed to pry out the magnet. The hole I ended up re-carving looked a mess as I attempted the hand drill and scalpel. In the end I resorted to using green stuff to position the magnet in the mess of a hole I made. If only I was that eager to paint these tower.
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The weapons on the tower are held on by magnets and I had to drill holes into the side of the tower to mount them. Three out of four were positioned correctly, but the fourth meant the weapon couldn't rotate right down. I just wish I tested it first before adding superglue :( Additionally the Tau feature at the bottom sides are done too. Just wondering whether to spray paint it or do more... or work on something else...
I didn't hang about with the second Tau Gun Tower as it was the bank holiday Monday before I head back to work and a break in Sim City Buildit League.
Not sure if it was worth the wait, but finally got myself some Gloss to cover the crystals that looked too matt. Although it makes a lot of difference from looking at it, the photos just doesnt make much difference. I may just need to get a new camera... or phone...
Working on Tau Battlesuit got me thinking about my towers again and some platform to hold the Battlesuits so I could finally get around to taking some photos. There was either the simple large hexagon, or six smaller ones to form one large multi-angled platform... I opted for the simple one. Luckuly I had to buy a maths set for my oldest son hence access to a Protractor that helped me cut this hexagon. I'm now tempted to create my own small hex bases. despite purchasing a lot of transparent hex bases from Fluid 3D that are a little bit thicker than I would like. This central platform would hopefully eventually hold the central Tau tower too.
The Firedragon Falcon Grav tank is probably the model that I've broken the most repeated times. While bring out the shrine with the tank on the side, I managed to drop it again, breaking three of the horns. Luckily I only just managed to find the last piece. At least its cheap to repair unlike my wife's A5 that she dropped and broke the screen. Now she's got a new Samsung Galaxy A13 phone that takes lovely pictures. I've yet to use it to take my own pictures. I took the Firedragon Shrine out to see how I painted the crystal columns. Unfortunately my camera isn't capturing the colour very well.
Everything I needed was in this Old Treasure Trove, although this left a layer of mess over my workbench. Seems some of these being shoved into a box with other sharp items over many years, meant some bags had small indents allowing particles to escape. First thing was to re-bag some of these.
to SimCity Buildit... ok so the last repeated item is the main reason. The scenary piece is carelessly splashed with a base coat of paint and a quick black wash as I'll hopefully it will be covered with grass and other foilage that I purchased eons ago.
Using Milliput is a mess from the start, mixing the material is like playing with mud; it leaves a coat all over the fingers and any surface it touches. I glued the plastic columns to the base before trying to wrap the Milliput around it, but like green-stuff, it doesn't stick well and I had it coming off the column, or breaking away from it. However once dried, the top-left pieces holds firmly in place to the base. Luckily as this is so cheap, the remaining mixture (bottom left) was just thrown away... well I forgot to do anything with it until the following morning when it was all solid.
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