I thought a team with gnomes could be fun to have.
I have no idea how they are to play with, but that could be a fun experience.
As all new kits they are pretty easy to build, but you have to be careful with some parts as they seem easy to break.
It took a few hours to build the first set of gnomes.
Using the optitional parts I build the other half of the team.
The only thing left is to prime and paint them. I plan to use typical garden gnome colours like blue, grey, green and red.
With nice seams sprue glue is good enough even if you have to go over some parts more than one time. Sprue glue dries gloss and after sanding it’s easy to see if any of still is gloss.
The nacelles got a little more sprue glue.
Then after sanding the body I had to sort a few more spots.
The tires was assembled and wings and nacelles are ready for some paint.
Done sanding the body.
The canopies and turret was masked.
Next will be painting the area above the IP before glueing the clear parts.
I did a bit of dry brushing and the glued the weights in place.
The mid section guns.
The landing gears got painted.
Once that was done I started glueing interior parts in place.
The front landing gear was glued in place and then the cockpit floor and turret was glued before joining the fuselage halves.
While handling the plane I accidently broke part of the front gear. Hopefully I can get it in place later.
I also did a bit of dry fitting of the wings a tail assembly.
It’s quite a large beast! Luckily I don’t have to glue the wings until when it’s time for final assembly.
I struggled a bit with the metal parts to the landing gears, especially the smaller ones. So I took a break and built a few (quite a few rather) dwarfs for my Warhammer army.
I decided to have a go at it again and after checking both instructions I realised that the small parts I needed also was provided with the kit.
That made things a lot easier for me, and after some work they looked like this.
And sometime later they got black primer.
It was first after taking the pic that I noticed that one cable had moved a bit. I’ll correct that asap.
Kind of a quick update. The bolt thrower, crew and Bugman’s cart was primed black.
As well as som parts for the choppers.
I need to paint the interior and probably the bombs as well before continuing with the build.
I’ll try to solve it somehow with masking of some kind.
Next up on the table was my Ironbreakers and Irondrakes.
I made 2 groups of bodies with 10 in each. There are 4 of each body with a slight difference between them.
The Ironbreakers was assembled first.
The figures are fairly easy to build with very nice fit. The Irondrakes was a bit harder as both arms had to fit together in order to hold the weapon properly.
Games Workshop have made quite a few versions of the White Dwarf on their magazine with the same name. The figure is called Grombrindal and it turned out that I have one of the early ones.
I just have to paint him with white beard and all.
I also have two of the newer versions, the slayer and the latest 400th ed WD.
Some of the figures I have are made of white metal and even if I bought them recently they’re fairly old.
It takes more work to build a metal modell and the fit isn’t as good on newer ones in plastic.
Once I got all the pieces sorted and glued in place my Bolt thrower looks like this.
Next I’ll sort the crew for it. Not as much to do except cleaning them up and glue them to their bases.
I also have Bugman’s cart to build, which also is in metal. That will be the next project on my table.
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