first destroyed miniature

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:13 pm

Well, it had to happen. I just managed to kill one of my Romulans.

I've dropped the Starline 2500s, klinked them together, packaged and shipped them, played games with over-exuberent 12 year olds and nothing has so uch as dinged a single miniature.

Today however; I ran out of Zip-Kicer so I wentot the hobby store to get more. While unpacking the bag, I reached over the desk to put the can on teh shelf and it happened! The can of zip-kicker fell throug ha hole iont eh bag and smashed one of the KRs I was painting.

The neck snapped right behind the bridge bubble.
Twelve other miniatures went skittering acroos the desk and off onto the floor

, but that was the only one to break.

Will post photos of the damge later... as well as a shot of the repair and a write-up of how easy the repair was.

T

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:05 am

Pinned it?

Aabh · Post by **Aabh** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:11 am

Wow.. that's harsh

I'm looking forward to the repair pictures, though!

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:12 am

djdood wrote:Pinned it?

Not yet. But that is what I will do.

got sidetracked by a beautiful blonde.
A man's gotta have priorities, you know.

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:19 am

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:49 am

Finally got around to uploading the photos.

Here's the poor thing, in two pieces sitting there on the bench awaiting repairs...

After looking at the break more closely, I found that there was an air bubble in the resin located exactly at the fracture point. Never would have known it if the mini hadn't broken.
I wonder how many more of them contain similar voids?

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:51 am

I drilled out both pieces of the boom and added a wire pin to reinforce the joint:

Then used a bit of gap filling CA adhesive to complete the repair.

When I paint my next batch o'Romulans, I'll sand the joint and touch up the paint.

Bolo_MK_XL · Post by **Bolo_MK_XL** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:56 am

So the Romulans redesigned where they wanted to separate the boom

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:59 am

Bolo_MK_XL wrote:So the Romulans redesigned where they wanted to separate the boom

Smaller boom section means it's easier to use sub-light evasion!

Jim Lewis · Post by **Jim Lewis** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:42 am

Nice recovery! That's a nice looking Romulan Cruiser.

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:02 am

Thanks.
I still have lots of details to add, but it's on the downhill slope now.

The repair was rather easy.
With ST2400s, I would have had to use the Dremel to drill a hole that deep. With the ST2500s I used a hand-held pin vise and got the holes drilled in less than 5 minutes.

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:35 am

That wasn't an air-bubble. That was a thoughtfully-provided pre-molded drill pilot-hole.

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:58 am

djdood wrote:That wasn't an air-bubble. That was a thoughtfully-provided pre-molded drill pilot-hole.

Uhh... yeah... sure... what he said...

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Wow! You would have thought I could have made a better posting for #4000 than this...