40k Space Wolves & Daemons Boot Sale Bargain - Help Lawnor identify and fix please (Spring Cleaning)

The predator and Land Raider were bot missing some parts.  I was able to track down everything I needed except for one of the optics for the Land Raider.  This gave the the opportunity to experiment with Oyumaro instant mould, using this link as my guide.

The basis for my mould couldn’t be safely removed from the tank so I had limited access to it (pic 1).  I felt the best approach was then to take two moulds from it, one focusing on the front detail, and one focusing on the back detail, but with overlap between the two (pic 2).  The Oyumaro really does set fast but I gave it extra time to be sure.  Once my two moulds had set I stuffed them with green stuff (pics 3 & 4).  The advantage of the clear Oyumaro over the coloured stuff is that you can already see the level of detail being maintained, along with spotting any voids before it’s too late to deal with them.

Green stuff takes around 24 hours to dry fully, but I left them a lot longer to be sure.  Once set, I popped both parts out easily (pics 5 & 6).  The moulds could be used again right away, or dropped in to boiling water and reused for another project.  I trimmed off the excess material and eyeballed the parts against the original and cut away the unwanted overlap, leaving a little behind.  The two parts were then dry fit and compared and the middle was filed down until what was left appeared to match (pic 7).  because I am an idiot I chose to do the cutting and clean up using a brand new cheap box cutter that was to hand, rather than my slightly blunt hobby knife.  As such I underestimated it’s sharpness and put it in to my thumb and it would not stop bleeding (pic 8).  That knife is sharp!  I can now tell you that superglue works a treat to seal wounds (pic 9).  Learn from my mistakes.

With my hand glued back together I glued the sensors together.  I sanded along the joins to clean them up and applied a little Vallejo Plastic Putty to smooth over any gaps.  Once it was dry it was filed down once more and I have an acceptable replacement part (pic 10).

With the part made and the other parts acquired thanks to Ebay I could now rebuild everything.

Starting with the Land Raider, the green part was pinned on to the turret to ensure strength, but it ended up pointing a little downwards by mistake.  The radar dish arm was snapping off so I also pinned that.  The pegs for the side lascannons were missing so I filled in the holes, and lined them up as best as I could.  Not 100% sure they lined up enough for the shields to connect properly.  I think they are supposed to be assembled before going in to their mounts, but that’s not an option here.  I did a little clean up on these models too, but as they are already built I was limited in what I could comfortably achieve.

The Predator gun/turret was missing the piece that connected the two.  I assume it was once part of the optic, but snapped of with the gun.  I grabbed a piece of Mantic bases sprue which was square and seemed to be the right cross section to fit inside the gun.  I glued it in place while assembling the gun and let it set (pic 1).  Once dry, I cut it down to size and drilled pin holes in the sprue and the underside of the optic (pic 2).  I can see why this gun snapped off.  A single connection point on a moving part like this feels like it wants to snap off.

Again more clean up was performed on the model.  The original glue job looks pretty thick and yellow.  It seems to be holding strong though.  We will see if it shows through the paint or becomes a problem.

I believe all I need to do for the 2 other tanks is pin their small guns back on to them.  I should get that done tonight and then they are all repaired and ready to prime, unless anyone can see anything I’ve missed?