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| Assembling the Hellcannon is not as difficult
as it first may seem. All you need to do is take
your time and think through each step before you
execute it. In addition to the instructions listed
below, you may find the diagrams enclosed in the
Hellcannon boxed set very useful. |
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by cleaning all the pieces of
your Hellcannon. Remove all flash,
tabs, and mold lines with a hobby
knife, files, and/or clippers. |
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Make sure the two halves of
your Hellcannon barrel fit together
without a gap. If they don't,
you'll need to file down the
insides of the two halves until
they fit together tightly. Green
stuff can hide any small gaps
and cover seams, particularly
in the "stoke hole"
area where the crew shovels
in the corpses of the fallen
as well as inside the barrel
where the large skull is wreathed
by flames. Green stuff should
not be a replacement for careful
filing, however. Take your time
and test fit the two halves
of the barrel often as you work.
This step is one of the longest
and most laborious of the entire
project but also one of the
most important. Keep filing
until the two halves fit together
tightly. Only then should you
glue the two pieces together
and fill any gaps with green
stuff. Either shape the green
stuff as you apply it to resemble
the surrounding texture, or
file it into shape once it dries.
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you can see, the barrel halves
fit together pretty tightly after
filing, but green stuff fills
any remaining gaps. A bit of filing
is still required to finish the
job. |
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Once the barrel is assembled
and the glue and green stuff
are dry, make a test assembly
of the entire Hellcannon WITH
NO GLUE. Make sure all parts
fit together easily. If necessary,
you may need to go back and
file down a few more pieces
to make sure your Hellcannon
fits together well.
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| I highly
recommend waiting to do any further
assembly until all the pieces
of your Hellcannon are painted.
Go to Painting
the Hellcannon for some suggestions
on how to paint your Chaotic war
machine. However, if you would
like to assemble your entire Hellcannon
before you paint it, continue
on to Step 6. |
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| If
you painted your model before
assembly, do a test fit without
any glue to make sure that everything
fits together well. If you've
built up too much paint, you may
need to file down a few areas.
If everything fits fine, continue
to Step 6. |
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Steps 6-8 are the trickiest
of the entire assembly process,
because you have to assemble
the four largest pieces of the
model at once. You'll be assembling
the two large chassis pieces
with the uprights and the quarter-circle
of gears, the cannon barrel,
and the front face plate with
the large skull.
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Left - Apply superglue to
the six places highlighted in
the photograph.
Right - Attach the face
plate and the barrel to the
left chassis piece.
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Before the glue dries, apply
more glue to the corresponding
pieces on the right side of
the model. Attach the right
chassis piece to the assembly.
You'll need to wiggle the
pieces a bit to get everything
to come together properly.
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Be careful not to get
glue on the painted surfaces
of your model.
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Set
the assembly right side up on
a flat surface and make sure
that everything lines up properly.
The uprights should be straight
up and parallel to one another.
You may need to nudge the pieces
as the glue dries to ensure
a proper alignment. Check your
model from time to time as the
glue dries and make further
"nudge-adjustments"
if necessary. Allow the glue
to dry completely before moving
on to
Step 9. |
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| Superglue
the wheels to your chassis.
Start with the smallest wheels
and work your way up in size
to the largest wheels. The smallest
wheels go in the front. The
second smallest are second from
the back. The second largest
go all the way in the back,
and the largest wheels attach
to the axle that protrudes through
the chassis from the front face
plate. |
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Superglue the Chaos star
"hubcaps" to the
large wheels.
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Superglue the furnace doors
in place near the stoke hole.
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Superglue the two pieces of
the Daemon skull to the mouth
of the barrel.
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Superglue the barrel chains
to the chassis uprights and
the horns of the Daemon skull.
Though it's difficult to drill
into the small chains, pinning
the chains to the skull's horns
will make a much stronger join.
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Superglue the bitz with the
skull design and the three spikes
to the top of the uprights.
Note that the lowest spikes
should point away from the barrel.
Make sure these pieces point
straight up, and the top spikes
are parallel. You may need to
nudge these pieces into place
as they dry.
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You can't really glue the restraining
chains to the model. Without
a base, these pieces would fall
off during handling and play.
Thus, you have two options:
leave these pieces loose and
simply place them next to your
model on the tabletop or build
a scenic base for your Hellcannon
and glue these restraining chains
in place. For instructions on
how to create a scenic base,
click here.
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Clean and assemble your crewmen
as you would any other infantry
models. Superglue the models
to their bases. Cover tops of
the bases with white glue and
dip the bases into sand (or
base your models to match the
rest of the models in your army).
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| Full Disclosure. I didn't use exactly
the same method to assemble my Hellcannon. To
read about a few of the conversions and omissions
I made either deliberately or unwittingly, click
here. |
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