Got any chainsword repair tips?

Eric

Eric

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Thought I'd ask the collective modelling brain for any suggestions on repairing a Space Marine I'd picked up. This fella:

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Now he's been stripped of the thick layer of paint I see the shoulder has been filed into - well that's easy enough to fix (at least it was never studded). The difficult bit will be the chainsword. So it looks like someone was trying to perhaps convert it into a normal sword and has taken off most of the teeth.

I figure my options are either to tidy up the conversion and just put more of an edge on the sword to balance it out a bit, or attempt to repair it. A modern chainsword is far too bulky and I suspect carving the teeth off a plastic one might just be a path to madness. Sculpting on new teeth is an option of course, but I'm not sure my skills are quite up to that with green stuff (or maybe one of the other putties that holds a sharper edge). Not quite sure how I'd go about sculpting teeth yet of course - any tips?

Anyhow would appreciate any thoughts on approaches (even if I may lack the skill!) or other options. Couple of photos attached (sorry there is another marine propping up our friend in the last shot).

Thanks all.
 

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Ah, I got this one without a sword, so I just cheated and attached a spare plastic chainsword blade ^_^; not as good as original but it wasn't too bad (less then half painted right now ¬_¬)

Milliput or a greenstuff-milliput blend would be better for the sharp nature and you could file or just trim after it had set more then greenstuff which really doesn't want to sand well.

if you can get a small grove, then Plasticard is a fairly nice way to get the blades.
 
If your careful it's not too stressful to deblade a plastic Chainsword. Just watch your fingers.


If you want I could chop up some spares and send you the teeth?
 
Thank you for the ideas. Some good food for thought. I'd not really thought about maybe filing/trimming once in place. It's a good suggestion - clean it up, slap on the filler then work it once dry. The smallest triangular rod that Plastruct do is 0.8mm, I wonder if that would be too large to slice "teeth" off and glue onto a smoothed out edge, might as Citizen says be easier to carve something in situ.

Thanks again for the thoughts, I might do a few experiments on some scrap and see how the different ideas pan out. Certainly feel like I should repair if I can!
 
Probably a bit late, but if you're not set on chainsword repair, my thought was to maybe smooth out the remaining teeth bits and use green stuff or similar to add details to turn it into a power sword.
 
I had wondered about that. I've had it in my prep box for a while now and have smoothed out the original rough removal, whilst pondering the repair. I'm still torn between trying to lay on some putty then carving that or using teeth from a plastic blade as suggested. I've got a plastic one sat next to to it and I keep thinking maybe I'll have a go. I'm still quite keen to try to rebuild the chainsaw if I can, but the fallback is certainly to turn it into a more conventional sword!
 
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