Bugs! Everywhere!

New tools arrived! Dental pics and Oyumaru (not pictured)

With new tools more work can be done. Filled some gaps with milliput and tried my hand had recasting missing parts with #oyumaru and milliput. Hopefully I mixed it good enough so that it will cure fully. Because the first batch of mixed putty (that one used for the casting) I mixed directly. Not realising that the brown part had gone hard a bit. The second batch (used to fill the gaps) I first gave the individual components a good squeeze before I combined them. Came out much softer. Time will tell. If the casting does not cure I need to mix some more.

Another step for the #OTTSpringClean26 challenge. All plastic cleaned up and back on bases. I am missing one pair of arms from a Genestealer which I will reproduce from my Battle For Macragge box. I’m also missing a leg which will be more work to reproduce. For some reason the previous owner chose to leave two pairs of arms from the warriors but I actually like the look so the empty arm sockets will be filled with putty. Biggest project will be the big guy in the back. So much badly aligned parts. Tried to tear them apart and broke some. More putty work. Also I am missing a 28mm base and a 40mm base. Nothing we can’t handle 😉

Not sure what’s gotten into me but today I ordered some Oyumaru to replace the missing arm of one of the old genestealers and disassembled the metal tyranids even further.

I didn’t know that the hive tyrant’s upper body came in 4 parts (head, three pieces of torso) and the lower body came in three parts. And because I was “at it” I cracked every superglue link.

After that I started removing mold lines, old glue and greenstuff and did a lot of dry fitting. And since now I can get into all the nocks and crannies they all go back into The Soup[tm] for some more cleaning.

Send help?

So yeah. I bought some cheap dental tools from ebay and filters for paints so that I can pick clean the recesses on the minis and “clean” the isopropanol.

Need to look for my small brass wire brush for my not-Dremel for some deep cleaning. Some of the flying beasts also need to get back in to deep freeze for some time and some back into iso for more cleaning.

I might getting to anal perfectionist about this but this is me. *shrugs*

So after *checks calendar* more then a month soaking in isopropanol it was time for a final hard scrub and a rinse.

All the scrubbed ones set out on the porch to dry in the sun. A few of the winged creatures went into the freezer to reattach the wings. Worked on some models. Not on all. By the looks the previous owner used superglue and a bad mixed version of greenstuff. (You can still tell some yellow bits apart from the green)

There is some more work needed to be done. I might need to invest into metal pics. Also somehow a pair of arms went missing. Hopefully that turns up again XD

Because the ‘nids are a child of their time the paint is on there rather thick. So repainting isn’t really a good idea.

But I have a solution: Alcohol! *badum* *tiss*

After two days of soaking and a good scrub we are here:

I’ll let them soak a bit longer and then give them a good rinse. If possible I will disassemble some of the metal minis (especially the flyers) because they are put together rather… bad. A lot of CA glue, greenstuff or similar things. And a butt-load of moldlines to get rid of.

At the start of every project there is “taking inventory” for me. Just to see, what do I have, what do I want and what do I need.

In this case, to play 3rd edition Tyranids it have what’s in the “Battle For Macragge” box.

• 10 Termagants miniatures
• 6 Genestealer miniatures
• 8 Spore Mines miniatures

Spore Mines are not a thing in 3rd IIRC so  that leaves me with 166 points of ‘nids. We need more!

And this is the part where Gorram comes in. They kindly send me an old 4th edition ‘nid army. I thought it would be the contents of the box I had again. Boy was I wrong. Behold! The Army!

If I count correctly (and I’m having a heard time identifying all of them) we have:

• 22 Genestealers
• 3 Spore Mines
• 18 Termagants
• 8 Gargoyles
• 8 Hormagaunts
• 2 Tyranid Guards
• 3 Tyranid Warriors
• 1 Hyve Tyrant
• 1 Thornback Carnifex

Especially with the big guys in the background it’s hard to see what they are. But I will come back to that one everything is stripped, build and primed.  I guess it is safe to say we are way above 750 points XD

Stripping alcohol is already ordered, now I need a suitable container to let them soak.