Re: [Epic] GW Substitutions

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:46:38 GMT

At 02:17 AM 15/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>oki_at_... wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Also, I know of several people who have been using resin cast kits to
>> >make Rhino's, and other somewhat large vehicles for 40K for quite some
>> >time. The price of the kits, and the restocking of the resin is a bit
>> >expensive, but no where near as expensive as going out and buying a GW
>> >Demolisher or Jet-bike box set.
>> >
>>
>> How is the result/ quality ? Is the effort worth it :) ? I have read some
>> description of the process - so I thought I would rather give tuition to
>> make some money to buy those models rather than make them. But it is just me
>> I suppose.
>>
>> Regards
>> Oki
>
>Not too bad though the smaller the mini the worse the product. Anything
>smaller than a tank tends to become a blob. Rhinos and Land Raiders turn
>out pretty well with about 1 in 6 being useful only as destroyed
>vehicles. Though, I will admit, the people I know who do this have more
>time to try this out than I do.
>
>It tends to take about an hour to three hours to get the resin to set.
>And about thirty minutes to set up the molds if you haven't cast them
>permanently.
>

Actually, if you use the right stuff, you can make pretty much anything.

I've even seen Terminators where the only way you could tell it wasn't a
real termie was that the twin gun barrels had tiny air bubbles in them.

Agro
Received on Tue Apr 15 1997 - 08:46:38 UTC