Guild Ball Hunter's Guild by Lawnor

I always wash everything in hot soapy water before I begin, often the same day I buy it even if I don’t expect to work on it for a while.  The parts then get left on a towel to air dry for a day.  Everything was then inspected for mould lines and files, shaved, sanded and shouted at as needed.  I would have to say that these models required very little work.  I was really impressed.  I may yet find mould lines as I paint them though.   Any join that could take being drilled and looked like it might benefit was then pinned.  I have an electric drill for this that I suspect would let me drill a paperclip sized hole in the end of a paperclip.  I can really recommend getting one if you plan on doing lots of assembly over the years.

I did have issues with gaps on the bear, and the rear leg join on the cat wasn’t as seamless as I would have liked.  I have tried to deal with this by squirting Vallejo Plastic Putty directly on/in to the areas and then wiping the excess away.

The wolf did not want to glue together.  He got a pin down the middle of his body and then everything got glued together at the same time as this let me line everything up the best.  I tried gluing the body together first before attaching to the rock, but even though everything looked fine, his feet did not line up.  In the end one of his back legs was left floating so I glued a small rock under it to anchor everything and make it look more natural.

All the slots have been covered with masking tape.  Any model I felt safe drilling pins in to their feet is being worked on separate to their base as this make basing easier and can help painting hard to reach areas as I can take them off the bottle tops they are resting on.  They are not glued on to the bottle tops, merely held in place by their pins.  The bear is pinned to his base.  I don’t trust glue alone on that.  one of the pins goes through the base and through his ankle in to that leg, which should hopefully strengthen that point a little.  Theres a a lot of weight on just one connection.