Infinity Beyond Icestorm - Assembly

Sorry for the lack of recent updates…’real’ life priorities (I’m sure many can relate 🙂 ).

Picking up where I left off, the air-dry clay has dried and now there’s just a couple more steps to finish these off. First, I’m going to lightly sand the clay flush with the bottoms of the bases. For this I’m using some dual-grit Flexi Sanders from Vallejo ( 240 and 1000 sides).

A damp paper towel helps catch the filings (otherwise they tend to blow about).

Next I’m going to seal the clay with a thinned coat of PVA. To ensure a smooth finish I’m going for a quite watery consistency.

While these are drying, I thought I’d add a couple of photos that illustrate how much difference adding the base topper, magnets, and clay make for the overall weight of the model. To do this, I weighed the components for the Hellcat along with a stock base…and then I swapped that out with one of the modeled bases I’m working on. The difference is only 3 grams…but effectively that’s a 20% increase in weight 🙂 .

At this point, once the PVA has dried, you could be finished (after all, nobody will see the bottoms of these). For a more finished look though, I decided to add a thinned coat of Abaddon Black.

The small amount of paint on the magnet won’t really affect its performance, and as a bonus it gives you a bit of canvas space to sign/date your work…it’s always nice to see how our skills improve over the years :).

Well the bases are ready…next will be the assembly of these two Nomads models, followed by painting. Additional time spent so far…~20 minutes (not included drying time).