Painting the Balrog – Part 1
This minature is the new plastic one as opposed to the older metal one. The older one apparently had some issues with the weight of the metal wings.
Unpacking the box I found this:
- 2 Plastic Sprues
- 1 set of wings
- 1 Instruction leaflet (Folded A4 page)
First step was to remove the body part from the sprues. Best to use clippers for this part, trying to bend it out is not a good idea.
I then filed down the edges and cleaned up plastic.
I then glued the two body pieces together, the spine flame and then attached the arms.
When I attached the flame, I noticed quite a gap and ridge between pieces. The pieces wern’t sitting flush. So I headed down to the local Games Workshop store and picked up some modelling putty.
The modelling putty is an epoxy, it comes in two parts (Blue and yellow putty), and then when rubbed together becomes green and adhesive.
Using this, I rolled a thin sausage, and placed it in the join. Using the back end of a brush, I then pushed the putty into the gap. I removed the any excess putty using a scalpal and shaped as needed.
I haven’t used putty before, but it seems very useful. First time around I used WAY too much, a gap really doesn’t need too much putty.
While that was setting, I coated the base in a Chaos Black. I plan to make the base darker then the source imagery.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 11:44 am
From what ive been told by Games Workshop, the metal wings were stopped less than 1 year after release because the wings were heavy and needed alot of pinning, for the next few years it then changed to metal body & plastic wings, but alas GW decided this was still too hard to assemble for the average modeler….so everythings plastic now…..i guess GW are saying their customers arent very good at model making !!….actually i know they are….thats the reason they gave me when i asked why everything was swapping to plastic kits!
December 15th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Will this set come with the wings, or do you have to buy them seperately?
December 15th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
The set does come with wings.
You can buy a spare set of plastic wings from Games Workshop. This is probably because the original metal ones were hard to keep in place. (As mark suggested above)