Assembling my Metal Hellcannon...

[Seth-Ra the Everliving]

...has left me full of hate for the world.

That is all.

[talismanictattoo]

mwahahaha

[Ever-Chosen]

I have 2 of them in the process actually of doing one now this one isn't as bad as the first one that I actually had to put on the floor and stamp!!! On till the 2 halfs went together -.-!

[AshBorn]

Yeah I hate those damn things. Especially because on the instructions, I think it is step 2 where it tells you to put a wheel on the wrong peg. Make sure you check the pic on the box with what you do to make sure its done right or you'll be hating life.

Also, you'll end up having to green stuff cracks and gaps and stuff...

Love the model, hate assembly!

[Ever-Chosen]

Ha I didn't even get any instructions or a pic to go off as with mail order I just got them in white boxes -.- all good tho

[Seth-Ra the Everliving]

Alas, no instructions, not even faulty ones.
And for some reason the paint doesn't want to stick to the damn model. I've done more painting on touch-ups than the original job.

[Antithesis]

Try wrapping one half in toilet paper, then use a table edge and a tea-towel to leverage your weight onto it - that's how I straightened out my bend...

oh God, that sounds dirty!

[Kaleb Daark]

What I found was attacking it with a file worked best, as its the mating faces that are flawed - but then again, given the moulding process you can forgive that in metal, but not in finepoo.

Check the barrel is straight on the outsides, which they probably will be. Then check when the barrel is together, where it stands off, as to say where it doesn't touch.

I did the following,

Took all the separate items and cleaned all the flash off first, remember the wheel sockets and axle flash as well. - this helps to delay the inevitable

bring up a pic on the thing fully built and lay it out flat to get your head round how it all goes together! - overhead stamped on by a giant view.

file the two halves of the barrel until it fits all lovely - this may take some time - it took me three hours and a hour to file all the flash lines of the rest of the stuff, and I ended up with a lively pile of shavings and fillings.

When you come to stick it all together do yourself a favour, get some glue like araldite Rapid steel or similar. I used 3m Dp490, but that's cos we got it at work. Mix a shed load of it up, and spoon it into the cavity of the cannon and the bonding faces, it'll all splurge out, but you can clean it off and it not only is firkin strong but also acts as a filler as well. GW superglue doesn't cut it on this puppy!

Hope this helps, as I understand your pain!

any other questions just ask

[andronicus]

The file and a decent filler glue is definately your best friend with this. Like kaleb said, it does take time. I also spent hours with a file. I even used a bench grinder to get my barrel to fit flush together. But I'm just impatient sometimes.

[Seth-Ra the Everliving]

I ended up rolling out a thin sausage of green stuff and then gluing the remainder of the contact surface with Loctite. Once I pushed the two halves of the barrel together I shaped the excess that pushed out from the gap to blend in, and I can't even see the join now.

Quite chuffed.

Now the issue is fitting the chassis together.it wants to be wonky. It really wants it. The structure has no integral rigidity and there is a lot of play, I would have liked it if the dimensioning had been tighter so that it fitted together only one way, maybe with some tongue and groove or dowels to locate he chassis parts.

Getting there though.