RE: [Epic] Cap Imps

From: Kelley, Kevin J., JCS <kevin.kelley_at_...>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 07:24:34 -0400

Try warning it in hot water before you bend it - also is it lead or pewter?
If pewter you can put it in boiling water and it will become mallable.
I do this with pewter horses - can to a limited extent bend heads and tails
to get some different poses.
With lead just hot water should do the trick.
KK
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> From: Stephen Sheldon[SMTP:stephes_at_...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 5:24 PM
> To: space-marine_at_...
> Subject: Re: [Epic] Cap Imps
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> >
> > Errr....What I actually meant to send (rather than a
> > blank message) is that I recently got a Cap Imp
> > as well. However, both sides are bowed out to the
> > point that the front will not mount on the front
> > of the model. Does anyone know of way to bend
> > them inwards? (The sides are relatively thick.)
>
> The front is hard to mount, when you said it was bowed out, is the side
> that looks like brickwork flat or is it bent too. The only thing I can
> suggest is trying to bend it using a vice, the only problem with that, is
> the force required to straighten it is going to be so high it will damage
> the detail. This is a perrennial problem with metal miniatures of this
> size,I guess that is why a lot of companies are going to resin
>
> Steve
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