#62 Assembly, Malifaux, The M&SU, Ramos

Malifaux, The M&SU, Ramos

Introduction

Well this looks complicated, add in a broken arm on mr Langston and you have a bit of a mess. I know I write this part after I have already assembled the models but its nice to pretend Im psychic.

This is the first set I badly wanted, I stayed away due largely because I was told it needed additional models for normal play, but guess I'm not paying attention to that anymore.

Assembly Instructions

Assembly

Assembly

• Ramos, In this box he was the only guy who wasnt really fiddly to assemble the spider in his had is the only real gotcha which I would glue first, as otherwise you have to press it in while the small arm joint is being glued to the body (or you wait, but that isn't happening). Otherwise a fairly normal model.

• Joss, This guy was normall until the moment I tried to glue all the cables, they were really fiddly and had some real trouble getting them nice. I tried tweezers and it wasn't much better.

• Howard Langston, Good old Howard, had a broken arm to start with and went down from there, I had a trouble with both the legs and the mechanical arms on this guy in both cases I followed the instruction and failed to get the correct result, after getting annoyed I just did whatever I wanted and drilled out the holes that didn't fit neatly. The legs looked like they had specific holes to go into but sat proud and didn't seem to be correct. The arms weren't as bad but drilling out with an oversized drill bit was definitely the way to go.

• Arachnids, Looking at the bodies there were different holes in them to accept specific arms, sadly either I'm just too good at pushing a square peg into a circle hole that I ended up with some arms that wouldn't go in, Mr. Drill Bit Was there to the rescue again.

• Brass Arachnid, This guy didnt turn out like the box at all and YES I did follow the instructions, I have the video to prove it, In the end instead of me trying to get the arms looking like the box I fitted them into the shape of typical normal spider and really was happy with that. I realised that the base was way too small for the thing so something will have to be worked out there.

Conclusion

Well this was definitely a box I will remember the sheer number of bits and bops I had to fiddle with was unbelievable. Hopefully I don't break anything in the painting process.

6/10