Saturday, September 7, 2013

Eldar Wraithknight WIP

Here is what I've got so far on my Eldar Wraithknight for my Saim-Hann army, still need to knock out some details on it and clean up some of the painting.  The base is finished at the moment, just went fairly simple on it and used some left over bits from other armies I've worked on.

I was going to magnetize the arms so that I could switch out the whole arm to use the shield & sword on this one.  But I didn't plan far enough ahead on the build, and I now know an easier way to get them magnetized and not have them move all around too.  I went for magnets in the end of the torso ball sockets the arms go onto, and then magnets in the socket on the arm pieces.  But the magnets were just strong enough to hold the arms on good, the arms with the weight of the guns would twist down.  I could of figured out a pin from the torso to the arm, but I was tired of messing with it at that point.  My fix for this in the future is to take the ball socket and put the magnet in the end that goes into the torso, as the ball socket pieces have two tabs that lock into the torso and will keep it from moving like the others were.  Which doing this you will also need to glue them to the arms, so for the other two arms I'll need to cast two more ball socket pieces or build something similar to it.

I still plan on making the secondary weapons so that they can be pinned in place on the shoulders.


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