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Post by Comrade itman496 on Sept 4, 2009 13:29:16 GMT -5
Well, a long time ago, when I got my Konig Wolf kit, I somehow managed to break the left cheek-armor's mounting post... it was plastic, and basically what happened is I put the cheek armor on without putting that rubber belt thing on first, and I tried to get the cheek piece off.
But, it was on pretty darn tight. So I tried twisting it, and all of the sudden, POP, the post sheered off... -_-
So then, I got a pair of needle nosed pliers to pull the post back out so I could glue it back onto the cheek piece, but that post was stuck in there, and all I managed to do was grind up that whole area... I eventually resorted to gluing the cheek piece on. And I angle that side of the Zoid away from view XD
But, has anyone else noticed this problem? Or was it just this specific model...
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Post by La Volpe on Sept 4, 2009 15:18:37 GMT -5
Must be a bad batch, my two KW's are fine.
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Post by Comrade kitsunefyn on Sept 4, 2009 15:22:47 GMT -5
Think it was the batch yours must have come in, mine seems fine.
My panzer armor was similar, VERY tight fitting to the point where if I put some of the pieces together correctly without shaving them down first they bent/ warped the plastic. :/
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Post by La Volpe on Sept 4, 2009 15:27:35 GMT -5
ALSO what manufacturer did your KW come from? Hassy's known to be real shitty. >>;;
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Post by GhostLiger on Sept 4, 2009 15:54:14 GMT -5
Ya, sounds like you got a dud I'm afraid. Though my König suffered from a missing peg hole on the leg (Manufacturing fault) which meant I had to glue a piece of the armour on. Tis just the way things go unfortunately. ALSO what manufacturer did your KW come from? Hassy's known to be real crappy. >>;; Tell me about it! The end of Jager's tail still droops. |
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Post by Daft Punksworth on Sept 4, 2009 17:34:11 GMT -5
Cairo's fine...
I snapped Lupus' back mount in the first few days I had him, but he was my first zoid (command wolf) so I hadn't gotten used to being a tad more careful. The only other damage he sustained was when he fell four feet, but he pulled a Zabimaru and fell to pieces to avoid most damage.
I had a horrible nightmare where I broke Tyrann's claws and was crying, but then I woke up and almost cried in relief at it being a nightmare. XD; /useless.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Sept 4, 2009 21:47:11 GMT -5
oh god, you have NO IDEA how many nightmares I've had of my precious zoids models being broken... I even had one where my house was on fire, and I went into the burning wreck to get my zoids and manga, and I died... I cried for days... ^^;
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Post by Blaze on Sept 5, 2009 12:04:15 GMT -5
I've never had any nightmares about my models, but I did recently dream that they released an HMM Liger Zero. Was pretty awesome looking. I should sketch out what I remembered XD
Oh and I've only had a few of my pegs break (mostly cuz of spray paint making it too tight *woops!*) But I seem to have problems breaking parts off my HMMs. Thank goodness for super glue.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Sept 5, 2009 12:49:15 GMT -5
the HMM's are fragile? oh wait, spray paint... XD
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Post by Blaze on Sept 5, 2009 12:56:34 GMT -5
Well some parts of the HMMs are fragile, but it's mostly cuz some of the parts are so small.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Sept 5, 2009 13:03:32 GMT -5
how small can some of the parts be?
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Post by Comrade Tilly on Sept 5, 2009 13:15:53 GMT -5
Yeah, often problems with Zoids are a bad batch. The most common offender is red plastic—deantler's maroon, some (but not all) Geno Breakers, etc.
Twisting is also a good way to break stuff. Get a thin metal file or sommat similar you can use the gently pry things apart along directions that don't put so much stress on them. I use that to get Zoid bits apart, it rarely fails me.
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Post by Blaze on Sept 5, 2009 13:38:02 GMT -5
Yeah I usually cut the small pieces out with an xacto knife. Seems to work.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Sept 5, 2009 13:42:03 GMT -5
okay, good ideas
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Post by Comrade Tilly on Sept 5, 2009 16:08:54 GMT -5
A sidecutter will do best at removing little parts from frames, imo. I got one recently, and it's shiny—I still have to trim off a few leftovers with a knife, but pieces are under less stress throughout.
I'm still keeping my scissors, though. Any scissors that can make it through 7-odd years of Zoids intact deserves to be resharpened and kept ;p.
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