Yo to you all.
Well, thanks to Deadcommando the marine truescale revolution is well and truely underway. So i thought i'd add my own contribution, in the shoulder area. You can use this simple how-to guide on non-truescale marines as well, so if you want to add a bit of muscle to the Emperor's Finest look no further. It's also a good way to add raised rims to the shoulder guards of sergeants and characters.
Here's what you'll need;
*Clippers
*1 decent knife (not like this one!).
*1 needle file.
*Some plasticard, known as sheet styrene in americaland. 1mm thick for truescale, 0.5 for non-trues.
*1 Space Marine shoulder pad (dur).
*Plastic glue and a fairly blunt pencil (not shown).
*Fine sandpaper (optional).
Begin by clipping out a small square of plasticard slightly bigger, at least 4mm, than the shoulder pad. Glue the pad to the plasticard and leave it to dry for a while.
Once the glue is dry, draw around the pad with the blunt pencil. I use a blunt pencil because it gives you a bigger outline. Clip roughly around the outside of this outline with your clippers, then file down the rough corners using the outline as a guide. Clip the plasticard flush with the back of the pad.
To hollow out the inside cut out a triangle with your clippers like this,
and use you knife to
gently and
carefully shave the excess plasticard away until its level with the inside of the pad.
WARNING! If there's any point during this whole procedure that you're likely to loose blood/digits, its now. Be very careful!
It should now look something like this,
Now you can repeat the whole process with the other side, making a pad that is bigger all round or leave it as it is. i've repeated the whole thing because i want a big shoulder look.
If you're not happy with the raised look you can always file the plasticard flat against the existing rim on the shoulder pad, and if you want a super smoothe finish use some fine sandpaper after filing.
Hope y'all found that interesting and helpful.