WAR Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Nice I like your exorcist conversion. I bought mine from my FLGS well I traded a 25 pewter arbite/ enforcers for it when they first came out. Funny thing is I never finished the Exorcist and ended up buying the arbites/ enforcers back from the employee I traded them to Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/187529-the-dreaded-exorcist-kit/page/2/#findComment-2229629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glaeken Templaris Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 'The Dance of Death' 'The Symphony of Destruction' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' Loving the mods mate might have to have a bash a one once i get the funds to order an exorsist myself. also the only 40k units ive seen so far with 3 of my fav metal song titles as callsigns. wicked \m/ lol Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/187529-the-dreaded-exorcist-kit/page/2/#findComment-2229718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inquisitor Fox Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 So I've begun assembly of my Exorcist, and did have some warpage with the same U shaped piece that MadCowCrazy had problems with. Through careful bending of the piece and a small amount of minor shaving of the plastic Immolator top that it mounts to, I was able to get it to fit without any real headache (at least for me and my own level of patience). There will need to be some putty and/or greenstuff work to fill in some gaps, but being a veteran of mixed metal and plastic kits (go old school Bretonnian models!) I'm relatively pleased with it. Thus far it does require more work than all plastic kits, but not excessively enough yet that I wouldn't be willing to build a second one. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/187529-the-dreaded-exorcist-kit/page/2/#findComment-2229864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
panbient Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Through careful bending of the piece and a small amount of minor shaving of the plastic Immolator top that it mounts to, I was able to get it to fit without any real headache (at least for me and my own level of patience). how did you manage to bend it? i've been hesitant to try in fear of destroying detail. do you have fingers of steel or some sort of high tech rubber pliers? mine needs to be bent a little and the U needs to open up just a bit as well to get a fit that isn't forced. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/187529-the-dreaded-exorcist-kit/page/2/#findComment-2229979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inquisitor Fox Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 how did you manage to bend it? i've been hesitant to try in fear of destroying detail. do you have fingers of steel or some sort of high tech rubber pliers? mine needs to be bent a little and the U needs to open up just a bit as well to get a fit that isn't forced. Apparently just fingers of steel... I gripped it with two fingers or so on each side, as if it were a U so I just had to bend it by pulling 'outward'.. I did this repeatedly a smidgeon at a time over the course of perhaps a half hour periodically from time to time while doing other activity (browsing on the computer, etc). Since it was just small moves, apparently I had enough hand strength to gradually work it out. It wasn't easy though, it's a pretty hefty chunk of pewter. I briefly considered vices or something, but like you was worried about the loss of detail or damage to the piece itself, so I settled for the slower, more careful old fashioned way. It worked though, as the minor shaving involved one or two passes of one particular corner with an exacto knife, so barely counts as even that :) It was perhaps a square milimeter of plastic material that came off. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/187529-the-dreaded-exorcist-kit/page/2/#findComment-2230007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
panbient Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 so sustained applied pressure is the key? sounds like it's worth a shot hehe thanks Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/187529-the-dreaded-exorcist-kit/page/2/#findComment-2230299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inquisitor Fox Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 I'm not sure if it's really sustained... I tugged for several seconds then relaxed it for a bit and did stuff to let my hands rest up. I just did it in small increments over an extended period of time. I doubt I'd be able to pull reliably with constant pressure, but doing small bursts then resting didn't overly hurt my hands or arms at all :tu: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/187529-the-dreaded-exorcist-kit/page/2/#findComment-2230305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nachocuban Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 I put an exorcist together for my girlfriends SoB army yesterday. Almost as fun as her penitent engine. :S The rhino assembled better than any GW plastic kit I've ever done, but that was just a tease for the exorcist parts. One of the front side panels was about 3mm higher than the other side, so I had to file the hell out of it to make it look right. For the 'horseshoe' part, I had to shape that as well. for bending it out wider, i put a pair of large-ish pliers inside, pressed against the flat part near the ends, and pulled them open slowly. That seemed to work nicely, except that the left side bent to far, and the right side bent not enough, making it look like it was a 'U' falling to the left. So I just cut/filed away the bottom of the right side to make it fit, and am now filling the many holes with sheet rock mud. which makes a great filler for just about any modeling, dries fast, and stays hard. The only problem with the bending open, was that it accentuated that fact that the top wasn't level, and with every opening bend, it got worse, so I just flipped it over, and beat it with the flat part of the pliers on the end that was to low. With a little filing of the organ pipes it fit nicely after about an hour and a half of bending, beating, cutting, and filing. Now she can start painting it, and I don't envy her :huh: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/187529-the-dreaded-exorcist-kit/page/2/#findComment-2233484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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