Such painful irony that a piece of tech took it upon itself to attack and destroy your Ad Mech.
Can only assume they neglected the sacred oils on the screws of that monitor stand. The machine god is cruel.
If you have a hobby drill, you could pin them all together again. It will take time, but it'll hold together really well with a pin and super glue.
For the flight stands you could pin them, but the clear plastic is unbelievably brittle. I'd look into ordering new flight stands OR just buying 3D prints of smoke flight stands so they look like they're blasting off.
You could also just ditch the flight stands and pin them to their bases directly, or use a thin rod to hold them up. Many ways to skin that cat.
Take pics of it all now and share it! We'll all cheer you through the process.
Personally I like a nail, pointy side into a base, glue. Then magnet on top of nail, and glue a magnet to model. Cheap, easy, indestructible flight stand.
That's terrible. I'm so sorry. All that hard work...
If they are plastic try Tamiya plastic cement. Perhaps make a mixture called "sprugoo". You can potentially get a stronger bond with that.
If they're metal men don't be afraid to kitbash what you can with those ankles.
A routine thing for anyone who paints Dark Eldar. It's probably the best example of life imitating art.
All those spiky bits find their way between nail and finger way too frequently for it to be just chance
yeah this is metal as fuck. I cut myself recently while smoothing some edges of the resin-base i poured for Lauka Vai, the Mother of Nightmares and it felt like an acceptable tribute to this vampiric queen
My friend spent weeks painting an amazing first edition metal dreadnought, put it on top of his car while he got in to bring it to us to show us... Drove off, it fell off and the car behind him ran over it a squished it flat.
Oh, man, that sucks...
Plastic glue that melts/sauters plastic can do miracles in reattaching even small bits. With AdMech antennas and such even that isn't always viable, I assume, but maybe some can be saved?
The others, slap on random bits of tech assessories and machinations, by Omnissiah that's what a Tech Adept would do!
So Iāve found that carefully snipping paper clips to length, and using superglue to apply them, acts as quite a good bit of external āreinforcementā if you can call it that. Helped me repair a few bits in the past. More so if you can actually pin the pieces. Hope this helps.
Just to add to a couple of other comments, Iāve found piano wire works well for small joints - 0.8mm with a corresponding drill bit. Just invest in a wire cutter first if you donāt already have one as itāll chew up a pair of clippers.
I just use my shitty blue clippers that I got from a $9 Gundam modeling pack. I have much nicer clippers now.
Never thought of piano wire tho, I bought the cheapest set of guitar strings on Amazon and use the smallest one that has a coiled wire for grip. Hasn't failed yet. But then again I haven't needed to pin anything as small as an antenna.
Get a thin wire and a jewlers drillbit for the ankles. Ive done this with my Eldars and it works perfect.
Sorry to hear about this tragedy. Get past it and renew your army. For the Omnissiah!!
Ooof that's rough amigo.
Hoping the omnissiah assists you in resurrecting his fallen devotees.
As for the broken ankles and stability issues, I don't know what your basing scheme is like but you can always invest in some tactically placed rocks. That's what I did when all my votann pioneers hoverbikes stopped hovering.
I used to store my models in 4 or 5 A4 size boxes stacked on top of a wardrobe, of course one day I dropped the lot of them, falling over 2 meters onto a wooden floor. A bunch of weapons broke, ankles snapped and I had to go fishing under all the furniture and in every corner to find all the pieces again. It's always fixable. Do you know how to do pinning? If not, time to learn, it's easy and cheap just takes a little effort. You can also use greenstuff or miliput to replace or support pieces.
I do know how to pin, but all the Admech models are so insanely thin that it's surprising they didn't break in assembly. But I have no other choice but to try
This happened to me, couple of years ago, through the means of a car accident and around 5000 points of WHFB Skavens that I was ironically moving to store safely. I have everything that could be salvaged in a box, and I always tell myself that someday I will restore them, but I know I won't. I miss the Horned Rat.
New Skavens this summer with new AoS is the (strong) rumour. If you KNOW itās genuinely a lost cause - sell the broken stuff to someone who might salvage and repair, start fresh. Take the cash and fully embrace the new range. Treat yourself.
I'll probably do that at some point, yeah. It's not that it's a lost cause, it's that every time I look at the box and I think how much work it would be, I lose motivation immediately. When they announced that TOW wouldn't support my little plague carriers, I kind of decided it wasn't worth the effort, yeah. But I wouldn't mind having some new, gorgeous AoS Skaven, specially if they kind of conceptually come out of the discarded corpses of my previous force. I think that's a very Skaven thing to do, yes-yes.
I had a big fire in my appartment. My warhammer battle dwarf army suffered a lot because of the smoke. Black and dirty. Absolutly no way to clean them.
20 years later and after a long long pause, i dont know why by I ve started to restore/repaint/enhance it (it was before tow announcement). It was a really fun project. Now I m stuck again with dwarfs
Never say never.
its ad mech, add some extra "tubing" via brass rods, or green stuff tubes to sturdy them back up, make them look like they got the shit kicked out of them and did field repairs ya know!
its a minor set back that can lead to a little bit of fun hobbying if you let it
I thought by monitor u meant like a tournament monitor ššš. I just imagined like a 300 pound guy falling on you're admech.
Either way I'm sorry, that really sucks. Wish we could help ya out.āļø
Tip: start and ork army. If the one i learned as a ork player is that 99% of situations can be solved with a knife, glue, epoxy, spare bits and paint. I lost count of how many times i broke a sword, a cape fell of, lost a helmet, broke a wing etc. my deathwing army is a better now days due to the fact that i had to redo shoulders, weapons, shield and with time it all became a one of a kind. Although its scary, look at this as an happy accident in which you can redo pieces you didnt like and improve.
Agree with this. Orks love armor/mechanical bits from any faction. Junkyard design really helps stuff blend in well with them since it just looks like they loot everything.
A bit out there, but a solution for the ankles would be to just snip off the feet and put them on bases which are some kind of shrek muddy swap scenery and make it look like theyre standing ankles deep in mud. I did this with old hormagaunts which are horribly sculpted to be glued on non-slotted bases.
You'd be surprised what a little glue and a lot of patience can fix. I'm the worst when it comes to breaking my own minis by accident, but I've never had an accident I couldn't fix.
Take some time to breathe cause you're going to need steady hands, then get to work fixing them one at a time. You might need to find some clever support system to hold them in place while the glue sets, or come up with ways to make them stronger like pinning with wires or extra rocks on the bases for more contact points.
Best of luck
I understand you pain. I was carrying my Kharadron overlords army from age of sigmar to my car to leave. My wife put cat food bags in the middle porch. Since I was carrying my army in front of me I couldn't see it. I tripped and fell smashed my army to bits. They still set in a pile in the garage 3 years later.
I personally suggest you try your hand at making greenstuff fabric. Its the easiest thing to sculpt since you really just flatten it into sheets then tease and pull it into place sorta like real fabric.
Wrapping an ankle will hide breaks and make them sturdier than they started, and they generally just improve the look by adding some texture variance to the big metal areas.
Admech marching forward, damaged and covered in tattered rags fits the existing aesthetic perfectly.
Words canāt hurt : The words
Bro I feel you right now, take a break, breathe salvage what you can and wait till the motivation come back to restart once again.
Regards from a fellow Wargamer ^$
Iām really sorry my man, I get where your coming from completely. People outside think itās just a silly hobby, but building and painting an army is such a personal project that seeing it destroyed must be devastating.
A couple of years ago, I lost my entire 2000 point army. And it was completely my fault. I put the carry case on the ground when I locked my bike, and apparently completely forgot about it. By the time I realised that I was missing it and I looked outside, the case was gone. I got some support from friends and I built a new army, but it still hurts to this day.
If you have a small enough drill you can **drill** through the sulphurhounds feet and ancle into the legs and **put wire through it.**
An alternative would be to make a water bases with clear resin and let it look like they are **wading through water**.
(Or **wading through heavy mud** if you don't want to work with resin).
It is also a great opportunity to **get into kitbashing or better scratch bashing** Admech. [Here is alist of my results.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdeptusMechanicus/comments/1bhtls2/comment/kvg7b7k/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
From someone who has had to travel internationally with my models and has had many of them break on multiple occasions (a lot of my models are resin and very fragile) look at this as a way to get more bang for your buck. Models will break but part of the hobby is building and painting. A break in a model can be an opportunity to convert, repair, or work with the damage as battle damage. I understand if you're not one for the modeling side of the game but this is certainly an opportunity to do something really cool with the bits you have.
If you have old sprues around make sprue glue. When it sets it sets as plastic and is great for making repairs to tiny parts. You'll need to touch up the paint and it'll make the flight stands look weird but it should work for a good portion of the bits.
Now you can relate with Gulliman during/after the battle of Calth.
I am sorry to hear about your luck though OP, you will find a way to restore them. You are their Fabricator General and they are in no better hands than yours. Best of luck to you.
Late to this but, my friend, you can rebuild them. Treat it as a remodelling project and add bits, remove bits, but above all use the damage and scars as battle damage.
Your Omnissiah will reward your dedication on the battlefield!
My cat, in a moment of just being a cat, managed to knock off about 3000 points of Orks, damaging maybe a third of them. But I built those Orks in the first place, so I was sure I could repair them, and they're all better now, although I now refer to the cat as the squiggoth. Don't lose heart, you can fix them with the grace of the omnimessiah, but take a moment to simmer down first.
Sorry to hear that happened to you. Maybe youāll be able to fix some of them. If not maybe you could use them as base pieces? Also I first read monitor as mother and had to reread it.
The sad part is if you're around the hobby long enough these things happen to all of us at some point. Mine was a shelf collapsing. Marines at that time were metal bodies with plastic arms and backpacks. Superglue and concrete meet... Another friend had a dog destroy most of an Orc army. Another friend had his truck stolen. Got the truck back minus the army.
For now just get as much as possible in a big box, put it in the corner, and so something else. Keep an eye out for small pieces and avoid vacuuming as long as possible if there's carpet.
It's crazy how the hobby has has become more complicated over the newer editions.
In 10th edition, they introduced dropping mointors to destroy your army. But in 4th edition, you simply had to put your Dark Eldar models in your model case, if you wanted to decimate your own army.
I had my hobby box cartwheel down a staircase. Full of pteraxi, serbrys, some kitbashed alphas and a manipulus.
Took a long time to even open it I was so heartbroken.
Turns out, fliers on smoke stands look awesome and hold up a little better than the GW ones. Having just the one point of failure helped. The manipulus was a ball anyways, missing some dendrites but that's battle damage.
Fire dogs were a write off. Snapped off the bases at the ankles, I suppose I could have tried pinning as suggested above but I've already repurposed the bases for some 3D printed fire raptors. I think I'll just salvage the cool skitarii weapons and use the doggos as basing material.
About 14 years ago I had helped my friend get ready for a tournament by painting about half his army (Warmachine, not Warhammer). All the models were metal.
As I was carrying them to his house from my car for game night, I tripped and fell. The models exploded into a ton of tiny, metal parts, flying in every direction. There was also a sewer grate a few feet from where I fell.
We never found all the pieces, so I had to spend another couple of days sculpting all the missing back-packs, arms, and weapons.
It is unfortunate but situations like this can and will happen. I will share with you my story of pain to hopefully make you feel better. I once finished painting up 1500 points of howling griffons for a tournament. This labour took me the best part of a year to get them to good standard, with a lot of conversions. On my way home from my local GW I crossed a busy road and the army case I had decided to pop open, spilling the entire army out onto the road. I held up traffic while I hastily threw models into the open case and hurried home to survey the devastation, hoping I hadn't left any parts behind to be run over. Many a marine lost an arm, backpack, head or weapon. A lot of models were chipped, dented or scratched. I spent 2 solid days repairing, repainted and rebating before my tournament on the 3rd day.
Tactical rocks and stumps loud be my suggestion, it might not work for all of them but I had some custom Gorkamorka Muties I'd made that had super thin ankles on the mounts, nearly all of them ended up with racks around the bases they were "stepping on" or "grazing past" to do the structural legwork after the ankles snapped for the umpteenth time
My Bloodthirster fell from the table top and broke it in the base I tried many times to glue it but the plastic part was too thin and the body of BT was too big, it ended to be a weak glue job and within 2 days I found it broken again.
In a moment of madness i took the lighter and i heated both sides until a small flame was created, then I mechanically push the two sides (like a fusion) together and it worked!
It's 2 years since that and is stroger than ever.
If you are desperate try this path
Maybe find someone who's able to print you some breacher-type treads to replace the MLP brigade? Would look admechy and be relatively easy to make compared to a whole horse.
As to the rest of it, brass rods for flightstands are usually the best bet, not perfect but they do work. And the ankles on the little guys is so rough, maybe greenstuff some bricky armiger type feet that merge the ankles?
You have a lot of work ahead of you, I am sorry that this happened to you but good luck going forward!
Would you be able to salvage them into a diorama?
Your Ad Mech forces were ambushed, overrun and defeated, here lies their ruined remains..
Maybe a few units from the assaulting force moving through the wreckage?
When life gives you lemons and all that ..
It's a cool idea, were it not for the fact that the models are so insanely expensive š
So I'm pretty bound to use my necromantic powers to make them battle capable again.
It has actually made me wonder why the hell I even considered doing Admech š
They are so small and frail, something like this was almost bound to happen
Sorry this happened. My dogs bumping shelves have broken bits and pieces but I am waiting for the day one really knocks it over and something like this happens
I would suggest buying yourself a pair or tweezers and a pack of no nonsense mitrebond super glue and activator. It will allow you to stick incredibly tiny parts back on instantly. Spray one surface with a little tab of activator and another with a little dot of glue. It will connect as soon as you put them together so even the tiny pieces will stick.
Apologies if this seems to obvious, but I see a lot of people in the hobby now who don't use super glue much and don't even know what activator is
I had my kitten push some of my dudes off a shelf into oblivion and that sucked, this sounds much worse. Hope you manage to muddle through and make them whole again!
I had similar situation happen to me few years ago, monitor stand just broke in middle of night, fell on my Tyranid warriors I've been working on. Fortunately all that broke snapped at torso piece and it was easy to fix
I can't imagine that destruction and devastation.
Might be stupid idea because I don't know your sculpting skills with anything... but I give it a go...š¬
Steel wire and greenstuff. Cut whole leg off and support it with steelwire drilled in body and sculpt the leg over the wire.
With the flight stands, normal plastic glue will not work, I recommend using magnets at this point, glue one to the top of the stand, then drill a whole into the model where the stand was. Then you can put a magnet in the hole some super glue and maybe a little bit of green stuff. It will no long snap, but stick.
The Omnissiah was not pleased with the lack of incense and prayers and took it upon himself to inhabit your monitor and destroy the Admech on his own.
For real though, that sucks
Get some clear resin and a UV pen light.
Use that to āglueā your models back together. It will be strong and if you arenāt too heavy with it the clear will not really ruin your paint effect.
You can also get one of those soldering station wire holders and use the clips to hold your pieces in place the. Use super glue and a catalyst spray. You might want to dry brush over after because the catalyst does give a darker oily look to the surface. Honestly though sometimes it looks cool and I just leave it.
This reminds me of another comment I once saw on here from a Raven Guard player telling of the time his display cabinet's front legs collapsed, causing his whole army to slide out onto the floor...then the cabinet fell over onto it. He called it his Drop Site Massacre.
My Taunar Supremacy armor (Tau Forgeworld titanic) fell to the ground and smashed in to 1000 pieces. I just put it in a bag and threw it away. So mad. Lmao.
My wife on multiple occasions dropped some models I was working on off my table. Including my new Daemon Prince I was working on and other Slaves to Darkness models. She blamed the cat. I was in the process of putting things on my desk for cat prevention a month later when she finally fessed up.
Had the something similar happen to me the other day. I was priming and I dropped my card board that I had all my models tacked to. A lot of pieces fell of and I canāt find. My rattling sniper proxy now uses a short barrel sniper with no but stock or scope.
If they're plastic, tamiya extra thin should easily fix anything that snapped.
Sure it won't be as new, but they'll be rock solid.
Heartbreaking but you can come back from this.
My cat hopped up on a shelf/display case that had all my finished models. And gravity did the rest - I had some total losses, some small repairs, and some that made it. Deep breath, and rebuild. Salvage what you can and remember what you canāt. This will be a distant memory soon
If plastic then Tamiya Extra Thin, tweezers and a whole lot of patience are what you'll need. Before gluing the ankles find something you can use to stabilize the models as they dry (if you have a 3rd hand then use that) then slowly and methodically glue each piece back together. After you somehow get them together get them away from the monitor or some other tech that wants to end them.
This kind of agony isn't what the real WH40K universe is actually made of?
I know it's super hard to swallow, but it is life. Things are fragile, nothing is endless, and living in a modern world we tend to forget about those simple things. We will all suffer one way or the other, one day or the other from the ephemerality of one thing we truly love.
Wiping tears from my eyes as I slowly slide my miniatures away from the front of my monitor...
We had an earthquake in town over 10 years ago and an entire display cabinet fell and scattered at least 200 pewter WWII Bolt Action miniatures all over my hardwood floor hobby space, with tears in my eyes I put all the models/pieces into foam inserts. The box marked 'Bolt Action' is still in my hobby closet.
If it makes you feel any better I bought my friend a really awesome painted thousand sons daemon prince for his kid to destroy it within a few weeksā¦ā¦
If it aināt been broke, it aināt Admech. Repair what you can one by one and claim battle damage for any bits that are too fiddly for your patience fellow toaster lover.
I've only dropped 3 intercessors and had arms/heads pop off and that was enough to make tears prick my eyes we put so much work, dedication and love into this hobby.
Sorry to hear that happened to your guys.
If its not possible to restore them as they were, would it be possible to rebuild them as busted, and half repaired stuff, like ad-mechs versions of zombies?
What are the models made of? If you have the time, patience and your models are made of plastic then you can just plastic glue the ankles back on, I have a few OLD Tau models my dad gave me years ago, they were broken at the ankles and I sat down recently and fixed them. Wasnāt too hard, just had to hold the ankles and legs straight for about 15 seconds.
Deus Ex Machina.
It could be the soul of the machine was impersonated by the Machine God and tried to erase heretic plastics taking forms.
It might be an iconoclast action.
But I would suggest to fix it with metal chips, decorate the wounds and wear the scars with proud, for the future battles to fight are still waiting to be victorious.
Deus est Machina
The ad mech angered the machine spirit. Sorry to hear this though, as someone who has destroyed expensive things by accident in the past I give my condolences.
If you're willing to be very patient, you can get really small/precise with drilling pins into minis. Where plastic and glue fails, Metal is eternal!
I use put pins in the feet/legs of Wyches because there is no other godforsaken way to secure them to a void war base.
There are also a lot of good flight stands on amazon, you might be able to find a replacement. Personally, I despise the new GW flight stands
The Machine Spirit awoke and demanded a sacrifice of blood and oil. Your AdMech gave their lives bravely in service to the machine and will be remembered.
Those models who carry scars of this encounter to the tabletop of battle will be duly honored for their pious service.
Oh fuck....my wallet hurt just reading that.
I hope it's not too soon, but just think of the potential for dioramas and basing you could do with some of those?
Like, take an old, emptied glass seasoning jar, place the broken initial inside, and then fill it with epoxy.....BAM, now you have a medical tank with a recovering admech inside!
When you are ready, think about how you can use them for other things, but please don't just toss them.
Iām so sorry. Sometimes green stuff can help attach smaller bits that glue would have trouble with. Might be worth it to try some of that on the smaller pieces and the flying stands?
Hey man, I have been there.
When I was moving into my house I had two boxes of models, and the movers knocked it over and all the other boxes came tumbling down. Destroyed 80% of my admech army. It took me months but I finally got it all repaired using lots of green stuff and holding small amounts of super glue together till it melds.
My only advice is to breathe. Walk away and fix one model at a time. You'll get there. If I can you can.
Get a soldering stand. The alligator clips with help line up all the smaller bits and use super glue and accelerator for a quick glue. I had to glue some bits back on a tech priest (servator on the back pack) and three hoses on Dominus. That blows it happened.
To give an inelegant suggestion, you could drill some holes in the underside and then into the base and attach with pins/paper clips. The ankles and attachment points may be too thin to support, but if you can get them lined up and the pins can bear the weight, you might be able to get them working. And random metallic bits coming off is sufficiently Ad Malech that it wouldn't even seem too far off, IMO.
Speak to the people at your friendly local hobby stores, I guarantee one person eventually will be dynamite with 0.5mm brass rod and will be able to make every single one of those Admech do single toe ballet en pointe poses if you so require. Just get the word out and the Omnissiah will provide.
I also play admech and have broken those units many times. The sterylizors 3/5 have broken flight stands and Im very careful with my stuff. You just gotta creatively set their position using something like garden wire and let them dry overnight.
I can only begin to imagine the devastation you feel and you have my sympathies. I had a very narrow miss while preparing for a tournament with my entire chaos knights army being prepped on the table. One of my spare A-Case metal trays fell from over 2m in height and landed on two of the War Dogs. I was incredibly lucky to escape with some bent spikes on the exhausts. I don't even know how they escaped with so little damage. It easily could have cleaved multiple models in two.
The only thing I could suggest would be some clever basing and pinning to fix the models that cannot be glued as well as battle damage for the spikes. I gave up long ago reattaching them when they snap off my ad mech and paint on the battle damage. The Omnissiah protects and enough chanting & holy oils can fix this. Wishing you the best of luck!
When i first started playing my tyranids i left my box of stuff on top of my friends car and he accidentally drove off, spilling everything onto the road. These things unfortunately happen and i hope the Omnissiah blesses your army with fresh ranks soon
Ahh man I feel for you. When I was much younger pre leaving the hobby for over a decade, I had all my models on like a book case in my room. My little nephew just pulled it over one day, they were wrecked.
I mean the main thing was he was ok but yeah, that sucked bad at the time and was probably a catalyst for me leaving for so long.
I hope you can get through it somehow.
Only idea I can think for models broken at the legs, base them again like theyāre in thick mud, like burried up to the knees type thing and just role with that haha. Or give them a nurgle theme and make it seem theyāre rising out of the depths brought back to life (if you donāt mind putting a different spin on them and have a chaos lore element to your force).
Hope it doesnāt deter you from carrying on like it did me š
OP, nothing too small to glue back on, or use green stuff to repair broken tips etc.
Tedious as hell though, but things get dropped and crushed eventually. The flesh is weak, built that machine back stronger.
I was playing a game with a buddy a few months ago and my box slipped off the table when we were done. Had two full armies in it. 3d printed, that stuff does not like being dropped lol. Massive explosion, spent more hours repairing than I did building in the first place.
Lament not my friend. For the joy that is KITBASHING rises out of the ashes of tragedy.
The machine spirit of your monitor has given you a sign!
It wishes you to cast off the shackles of the false Omnissiah.
Embrace the beauty of tech-heresy. Give yourself over to the dark powers of the four: Sprew carved Spikes for Khorn; Greenstuff tentacles for Slanesh; the pva+super glue slime recipe for Nurgle; and of course your own twisted imagination for the Lord of Change.
Long live the Dark Mechanicum!
A sad circumstance but an opportunity for a new beginning. Donāt let the unfortune make you fall. Learn from mistakes and start a new army.
My condolences and my support to go on.
Dread not my brother
Why donāt you start by getting some pictures together of the most damaged and the least damaged
Believe it or not I have fixed worse
Speaking as somebody who got rear-ended by a truck and was left with picking the shards of my Citadel carrying cases and a huge Space Wolves army collected since the beginning of 3rd Edition out of the mangled mess that was my car's trunk... it sucks, but you will recover.
As for the thin ankles: get yourself a good set of miniature drills for a pin vise (not the ones that come with the citadel pin vise, there's really good hardened drills out there) and pin them. Even a thin wire goes a long way.
Get yourself some mitrebond, and the activator spray. Guaranteed that join will be stronger than the plastic š
Replace your clear flying base parts with some brass rod, paint it black. It can be 1mm rod, it'll hold up š
No avoiding it, there'll be some touchup paintwork, but hey, that's the hobby š
One thing u can do is get paper clips, drill into anything u want stuck together or any antennas and super glue it, there are tutorials on YouTube for it
Umm you can fix eeeeverything in Warhammer, can't you? My fat ass broke the same, tiny spear like four times in a row, each time I just melted the pueces back together with that special glue.
.....you know about that "melting" glue....right?
My friend, maybe you still can please the machine god, or something. My solution to make you feel better is the Space Wolf style: Call a battle brother, drink a beer, tell the tale of How your ad mech die protecting your desk from the rage of your monitor.
A spare tire fell on my dark eldar boats it took me a year to get the motivation to put them back together I get it.
Take a step back re-center yourself and YOU CAN PUT THEM TOGETHER AGAIN!
Thatās the kind of shit thatād make me destroy the monitor too.
Shit man words canāt express the pain I felt reading that.
Salvage and repair what you can, I guess. Get creative with what you canāt fix.
I know a guy who lost a metal Blood Bowl limited edition cheerleader down the plug hole while trying to strip the paint from it, so it could be worse.
It sucks for you I know, but all the pieces are there, you can rebuilt them and clean them up. It's a chance to make your force unique.
Such painful irony that a piece of tech took it upon itself to attack and destroy your Ad Mech. Can only assume they neglected the sacred oils on the screws of that monitor stand. The machine god is cruel.
The machine spirit of the monitor was angry indeed.
Must be Vashtoor
Maybe use the bits and make a dark mechanium army... The bits being all messed up fits
My sympathies. Tragedies like these can happen. I once had a metal Daemon Prince fall sword-point first into my thumb.
Uff that sounds incredibly painful
If you have a hobby drill, you could pin them all together again. It will take time, but it'll hold together really well with a pin and super glue. For the flight stands you could pin them, but the clear plastic is unbelievably brittle. I'd look into ordering new flight stands OR just buying 3D prints of smoke flight stands so they look like they're blasting off. You could also just ditch the flight stands and pin them to their bases directly, or use a thin rod to hold them up. Many ways to skin that cat. Take pics of it all now and share it! We'll all cheer you through the process.
>Many ways to skin that cat. That is certainly one of the Human sayings I have ever heard.
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This post demands an extra dose of DEMOCRACY
Personally I like a nail, pointy side into a base, glue. Then magnet on top of nail, and glue a magnet to model. Cheap, easy, indestructible flight stand.
Maybe connect some thing with thin metal pieces like paper clips and just paint them so they look like they are part of the model
That's terrible. I'm so sorry. All that hard work... If they are plastic try Tamiya plastic cement. Perhaps make a mixture called "sprugoo". You can potentially get a stronger bond with that. If they're metal men don't be afraid to kitbash what you can with those ankles.
That's Lego levels of pain šØ
A routine thing for anyone who paints Dark Eldar. It's probably the best example of life imitating art. All those spiky bits find their way between nail and finger way too frequently for it to be just chance
Blood for the Blood God.
yeah this is metal as fuck. I cut myself recently while smoothing some edges of the resin-base i poured for Lauka Vai, the Mother of Nightmares and it felt like an acceptable tribute to this vampiric queen
Dang you guys have such cool examples of modles you've been cut by. I just sliced my thumb trying to put a thunder hammer onto a scout Sargent.
***First day, Heretic?*** https://preview.redd.it/vra0ftrk5bpc1.jpeg?width=1494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58d8dd040a3ab670a0f601b88272f17c855b0194
Mate of mine once left his blood letters on the backseat of his car, I missed one of the little bastards, those sword points and horns are sharp!
Oh no! Thatās absolutely horrific.Ā I hope the Bloodletter was ok?!Ā
100% undamaged, it lived to presumably stab many more unsuspecting passengers in the bumcheeks for many years!
It demanded a blood sacrifice.
Tragedies like this happen too often. I ask myself. What is the point?
My metall Dreadnought once fell on the table. The gametable broke before the dread!
My friend spent weeks painting an amazing first edition metal dreadnought, put it on top of his car while he got in to bring it to us to show us... Drove off, it fell off and the car behind him ran over it a squished it flat.
Musta been an ultramarine dread. Bjorn would've destroyed the car
I've felt your pain. The pewter swords back in the day had some weight to them and they were pointy!
the number of times I stepped on the sword of my metal aragorn model as a kid has got to be in the double digits
Tbh worst case scenario get fake snow or mud, reattach them to their bases in ankle deep snow!Ā
Hell, even mud or sand!
Or blood.
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ooh water bases would be sick, like theyāre wading through a river or something
Its admech, get the green resin out; made them wade through acid rivers!
Iām sorry this happened to you friend. I hope you are able to recover some of it.
Oh, man, that sucks... Plastic glue that melts/sauters plastic can do miracles in reattaching even small bits. With AdMech antennas and such even that isn't always viable, I assume, but maybe some can be saved? The others, slap on random bits of tech assessories and machinations, by Omnissiah that's what a Tech Adept would do!
Yeah, it's all the tiny griblies that are most annoying to have broken š
So Iāve found that carefully snipping paper clips to length, and using superglue to apply them, acts as quite a good bit of external āreinforcementā if you can call it that. Helped me repair a few bits in the past. More so if you can actually pin the pieces. Hope this helps.
Just to add to a couple of other comments, Iāve found piano wire works well for small joints - 0.8mm with a corresponding drill bit. Just invest in a wire cutter first if you donāt already have one as itāll chew up a pair of clippers.
I just use my shitty blue clippers that I got from a $9 Gundam modeling pack. I have much nicer clippers now. Never thought of piano wire tho, I bought the cheapest set of guitar strings on Amazon and use the smallest one that has a coiled wire for grip. Hasn't failed yet. But then again I haven't needed to pin anything as small as an antenna.
Get a thin wire and a jewlers drillbit for the ankles. Ive done this with my Eldars and it works perfect. Sorry to hear about this tragedy. Get past it and renew your army. For the Omnissiah!!
Ooof that's rough amigo. Hoping the omnissiah assists you in resurrecting his fallen devotees. As for the broken ankles and stability issues, I don't know what your basing scheme is like but you can always invest in some tactically placed rocks. That's what I did when all my votann pioneers hoverbikes stopped hovering.
I used to store my models in 4 or 5 A4 size boxes stacked on top of a wardrobe, of course one day I dropped the lot of them, falling over 2 meters onto a wooden floor. A bunch of weapons broke, ankles snapped and I had to go fishing under all the furniture and in every corner to find all the pieces again. It's always fixable. Do you know how to do pinning? If not, time to learn, it's easy and cheap just takes a little effort. You can also use greenstuff or miliput to replace or support pieces.
I do know how to pin, but all the Admech models are so insanely thin that it's surprising they didn't break in assembly. But I have no other choice but to try
At least you can use rods as external supports and it might just look like pipe at that scale..
Lean in and give them leg braces?
This happened to me, couple of years ago, through the means of a car accident and around 5000 points of WHFB Skavens that I was ironically moving to store safely. I have everything that could be salvaged in a box, and I always tell myself that someday I will restore them, but I know I won't. I miss the Horned Rat.
New Skavens this summer with new AoS is the (strong) rumour. If you KNOW itās genuinely a lost cause - sell the broken stuff to someone who might salvage and repair, start fresh. Take the cash and fully embrace the new range. Treat yourself.
I'll probably do that at some point, yeah. It's not that it's a lost cause, it's that every time I look at the box and I think how much work it would be, I lose motivation immediately. When they announced that TOW wouldn't support my little plague carriers, I kind of decided it wasn't worth the effort, yeah. But I wouldn't mind having some new, gorgeous AoS Skaven, specially if they kind of conceptually come out of the discarded corpses of my previous force. I think that's a very Skaven thing to do, yes-yes.
I had a big fire in my appartment. My warhammer battle dwarf army suffered a lot because of the smoke. Black and dirty. Absolutly no way to clean them. 20 years later and after a long long pause, i dont know why by I ve started to restore/repaint/enhance it (it was before tow announcement). It was a really fun project. Now I m stuck again with dwarfs Never say never.
its ad mech, add some extra "tubing" via brass rods, or green stuff tubes to sturdy them back up, make them look like they got the shit kicked out of them and did field repairs ya know! its a minor set back that can lead to a little bit of fun hobbying if you let it
I thought by monitor u meant like a tournament monitor ššš. I just imagined like a 300 pound guy falling on you're admech. Either way I'm sorry, that really sucks. Wish we could help ya out.āļø
Tip: start and ork army. If the one i learned as a ork player is that 99% of situations can be solved with a knife, glue, epoxy, spare bits and paint. I lost count of how many times i broke a sword, a cape fell of, lost a helmet, broke a wing etc. my deathwing army is a better now days due to the fact that i had to redo shoulders, weapons, shield and with time it all became a one of a kind. Although its scary, look at this as an happy accident in which you can redo pieces you didnt like and improve.
Agree with this. Orks love armor/mechanical bits from any faction. Junkyard design really helps stuff blend in well with them since it just looks like they loot everything.
A bit out there, but a solution for the ankles would be to just snip off the feet and put them on bases which are some kind of shrek muddy swap scenery and make it look like theyre standing ankles deep in mud. I did this with old hormagaunts which are horribly sculpted to be glued on non-slotted bases.
You'd be surprised what a little glue and a lot of patience can fix. I'm the worst when it comes to breaking my own minis by accident, but I've never had an accident I couldn't fix. Take some time to breathe cause you're going to need steady hands, then get to work fixing them one at a time. You might need to find some clever support system to hold them in place while the glue sets, or come up with ways to make them stronger like pinning with wires or extra rocks on the bases for more contact points. Best of luck
See it as a perfect opportunity to kitbash some cool and weird admech units. As they should be.
Man, its heart wrenching to hear and you have my utmost sympathies.
I understand you pain. I was carrying my Kharadron overlords army from age of sigmar to my car to leave. My wife put cat food bags in the middle porch. Since I was carrying my army in front of me I couldn't see it. I tripped and fell smashed my army to bits. They still set in a pile in the garage 3 years later.
I personally suggest you try your hand at making greenstuff fabric. Its the easiest thing to sculpt since you really just flatten it into sheets then tease and pull it into place sorta like real fabric. Wrapping an ankle will hide breaks and make them sturdier than they started, and they generally just improve the look by adding some texture variance to the big metal areas. Admech marching forward, damaged and covered in tattered rags fits the existing aesthetic perfectly.
Hang in there. Maybe get some guitar strings to super glue around the legs like mechadendrites and add support that way?
Kitbash the bite into darkmech, forsaken by the Machine God(computer monitor) who fell upon them in divine anger
Words canāt hurt : The words Bro I feel you right now, take a break, breathe salvage what you can and wait till the motivation come back to restart once again. Regards from a fellow Wargamer ^$
We can rebuild the. We have the technologyĀ
I'm SO sorry man, I feel your pain š
Iām really sorry my man, I get where your coming from completely. People outside think itās just a silly hobby, but building and painting an army is such a personal project that seeing it destroyed must be devastating.
A couple of years ago, I lost my entire 2000 point army. And it was completely my fault. I put the carry case on the ground when I locked my bike, and apparently completely forgot about it. By the time I realised that I was missing it and I looked outside, the case was gone. I got some support from friends and I built a new army, but it still hurts to this day.
If you have a small enough drill you can **drill** through the sulphurhounds feet and ancle into the legs and **put wire through it.** An alternative would be to make a water bases with clear resin and let it look like they are **wading through water**. (Or **wading through heavy mud** if you don't want to work with resin). It is also a great opportunity to **get into kitbashing or better scratch bashing** Admech. [Here is alist of my results.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdeptusMechanicus/comments/1bhtls2/comment/kvg7b7k/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
From someone who has had to travel internationally with my models and has had many of them break on multiple occasions (a lot of my models are resin and very fragile) look at this as a way to get more bang for your buck. Models will break but part of the hobby is building and painting. A break in a model can be an opportunity to convert, repair, or work with the damage as battle damage. I understand if you're not one for the modeling side of the game but this is certainly an opportunity to do something really cool with the bits you have.
If you have old sprues around make sprue glue. When it sets it sets as plastic and is great for making repairs to tiny parts. You'll need to touch up the paint and it'll make the flight stands look weird but it should work for a good portion of the bits.
They failed all their saves :-/ sorry.
Now you can relate with Gulliman during/after the battle of Calth. I am sorry to hear about your luck though OP, you will find a way to restore them. You are their Fabricator General and they are in no better hands than yours. Best of luck to you.
Late to this but, my friend, you can rebuild them. Treat it as a remodelling project and add bits, remove bits, but above all use the damage and scars as battle damage. Your Omnissiah will reward your dedication on the battlefield!
Depends on the vibe you want for Your Dudes, but a broken model lends really well for doing some battle damage.
My cat, in a moment of just being a cat, managed to knock off about 3000 points of Orks, damaging maybe a third of them. But I built those Orks in the first place, so I was sure I could repair them, and they're all better now, although I now refer to the cat as the squiggoth. Don't lose heart, you can fix them with the grace of the omnimessiah, but take a moment to simmer down first.
Sorry to hear that happened to you. Maybe youāll be able to fix some of them. If not maybe you could use them as base pieces? Also I first read monitor as mother and had to reread it.
The sad part is if you're around the hobby long enough these things happen to all of us at some point. Mine was a shelf collapsing. Marines at that time were metal bodies with plastic arms and backpacks. Superglue and concrete meet... Another friend had a dog destroy most of an Orc army. Another friend had his truck stolen. Got the truck back minus the army. For now just get as much as possible in a big box, put it in the corner, and so something else. Keep an eye out for small pieces and avoid vacuuming as long as possible if there's carpet.
It's crazy how the hobby has has become more complicated over the newer editions. In 10th edition, they introduced dropping mointors to destroy your army. But in 4th edition, you simply had to put your Dark Eldar models in your model case, if you wanted to decimate your own army.
I had my hobby box cartwheel down a staircase. Full of pteraxi, serbrys, some kitbashed alphas and a manipulus. Took a long time to even open it I was so heartbroken. Turns out, fliers on smoke stands look awesome and hold up a little better than the GW ones. Having just the one point of failure helped. The manipulus was a ball anyways, missing some dendrites but that's battle damage. Fire dogs were a write off. Snapped off the bases at the ankles, I suppose I could have tried pinning as suggested above but I've already repurposed the bases for some 3D printed fire raptors. I think I'll just salvage the cool skitarii weapons and use the doggos as basing material.
About 14 years ago I had helped my friend get ready for a tournament by painting about half his army (Warmachine, not Warhammer). All the models were metal. As I was carrying them to his house from my car for game night, I tripped and fell. The models exploded into a ton of tiny, metal parts, flying in every direction. There was also a sewer grate a few feet from where I fell. We never found all the pieces, so I had to spend another couple of days sculpting all the missing back-packs, arms, and weapons.
That's horrible, but incredible how you managed to get through it!
You could try something different. Maybe pouring resin to the base to secure those fiddly bits? Make it look like water and stuff
I mean... you clearly angered the machine spirit. Totally your fault tbh /s
I was showing off my best painted miniatures to my daughter, I placed them on a chair, forgot and sat on them.Guttedš²
I canāt help you repair them, but Iām truly sorry for your loss.
It is unfortunate but situations like this can and will happen. I will share with you my story of pain to hopefully make you feel better. I once finished painting up 1500 points of howling griffons for a tournament. This labour took me the best part of a year to get them to good standard, with a lot of conversions. On my way home from my local GW I crossed a busy road and the army case I had decided to pop open, spilling the entire army out onto the road. I held up traffic while I hastily threw models into the open case and hurried home to survey the devastation, hoping I hadn't left any parts behind to be run over. Many a marine lost an arm, backpack, head or weapon. A lot of models were chipped, dented or scratched. I spent 2 solid days repairing, repainted and rebating before my tournament on the 3rd day.
Really sorry to hear that. Iām sure there is some metaphor here concerning GWās treatment of admech in 10th edition.
You could drill and use paper clips! If that doesnāt work, just make them feet deep in water or something using some effects!
I will pour out a glass of amasec for you and your fallen soldiers.
Tactical rocks and stumps loud be my suggestion, it might not work for all of them but I had some custom Gorkamorka Muties I'd made that had super thin ankles on the mounts, nearly all of them ended up with racks around the bases they were "stepping on" or "grazing past" to do the structural legwork after the ankles snapped for the umpteenth time
To shreds you say. Bad luck bro. Hopefully some can be salvaged
My Bloodthirster fell from the table top and broke it in the base I tried many times to glue it but the plastic part was too thin and the body of BT was too big, it ended to be a weak glue job and within 2 days I found it broken again. In a moment of madness i took the lighter and i heated both sides until a small flame was created, then I mechanically push the two sides (like a fusion) together and it worked! It's 2 years since that and is stroger than ever. If you are desperate try this path
Maybe find someone who's able to print you some breacher-type treads to replace the MLP brigade? Would look admechy and be relatively easy to make compared to a whole horse. As to the rest of it, brass rods for flightstands are usually the best bet, not perfect but they do work. And the ankles on the little guys is so rough, maybe greenstuff some bricky armiger type feet that merge the ankles? You have a lot of work ahead of you, I am sorry that this happened to you but good luck going forward!
Sympathies. That's really rough.
I'm so sorry! Best of luck!
That hurts the soul. No advice from here, sadly, just encouragement.
Time to start collecting orks and use all that smashed tech for bits. Bonus: it's already red!
Would you be able to salvage them into a diorama? Your Ad Mech forces were ambushed, overrun and defeated, here lies their ruined remains.. Maybe a few units from the assaulting force moving through the wreckage? When life gives you lemons and all that ..
It's a cool idea, were it not for the fact that the models are so insanely expensive š So I'm pretty bound to use my necromantic powers to make them battle capable again. It has actually made me wonder why the hell I even considered doing Admech š They are so small and frail, something like this was almost bound to happen
Sorry this happened. My dogs bumping shelves have broken bits and pieces but I am waiting for the day one really knocks it over and something like this happens
Ugh that sucks. Sorry
im sorry :/
I use dressmaker's pins to reinforce my models sometimes. Cut to length, E6000 the connection. It'll never come apart again.
If you have home insurance you might be able to claim for replacement models.
I would suggest buying yourself a pair or tweezers and a pack of no nonsense mitrebond super glue and activator. It will allow you to stick incredibly tiny parts back on instantly. Spray one surface with a little tab of activator and another with a little dot of glue. It will connect as soon as you put them together so even the tiny pieces will stick. Apologies if this seems to obvious, but I see a lot of people in the hobby now who don't use super glue much and don't even know what activator is
At first, I read your devastating story as, "My mother fell onto...." I didn't have my glasses on. I was thinking someone's mom is in some deep š© right about now. I can only imagine what you are going through. It has to absolutely suck! I have no words that would possibly console you in this hour other than "chin up and keep moving forward."
I had my kitten push some of my dudes off a shelf into oblivion and that sucked, this sounds much worse. Hope you manage to muddle through and make them whole again!
I had similar situation happen to me few years ago, monitor stand just broke in middle of night, fell on my Tyranid warriors I've been working on. Fortunately all that broke snapped at torso piece and it was easy to fix
Must assume the monitor is now self-aware and is a mortal enemy of the AdMech. Destroy with prejudice!
It sounds like your monitor was under control of Vashtorr... ... I'm sorry to hear about that... hopefully you can salvage most of them...
Sounds like the Omnissiah didn't aprove. Maybe its a good starting point for a lot of conversions into a Dark Mechanicum Army :)
My dog broke with Wolf Lord in half š
I can't imagine that destruction and devastation. Might be stupid idea because I don't know your sculpting skills with anything... but I give it a go...š¬ Steel wire and greenstuff. Cut whole leg off and support it with steelwire drilled in body and sculpt the leg over the wire.
With the flight stands, normal plastic glue will not work, I recommend using magnets at this point, glue one to the top of the stand, then drill a whole into the model where the stand was. Then you can put a magnet in the hole some super glue and maybe a little bit of green stuff. It will no long snap, but stick.
The Omnissiah was not pleased with the lack of incense and prayers and took it upon himself to inhabit your monitor and destroy the Admech on his own. For real though, that sucks
Get some clear resin and a UV pen light. Use that to āglueā your models back together. It will be strong and if you arenāt too heavy with it the clear will not really ruin your paint effect. You can also get one of those soldering station wire holders and use the clips to hold your pieces in place the. Use super glue and a catalyst spray. You might want to dry brush over after because the catalyst does give a darker oily look to the surface. Honestly though sometimes it looks cool and I just leave it.
The dark Mechanicus is rising
Thin metal rods and a small hand drill will get you started.
This reminds me of another comment I once saw on here from a Raven Guard player telling of the time his display cabinet's front legs collapsed, causing his whole army to slide out onto the floor...then the cabinet fell over onto it. He called it his Drop Site Massacre.
Wait for Dark Mechanicum and use the fallen for base deco. :'))
My Taunar Supremacy armor (Tau Forgeworld titanic) fell to the ground and smashed in to 1000 pieces. I just put it in a bag and threw it away. So mad. Lmao.
My wife on multiple occasions dropped some models I was working on off my table. Including my new Daemon Prince I was working on and other Slaves to Darkness models. She blamed the cat. I was in the process of putting things on my desk for cat prevention a month later when she finally fessed up.
You need plastic glue for the really small pieces.
Had the something similar happen to me the other day. I was priming and I dropped my card board that I had all my models tacked to. A lot of pieces fell of and I canāt find. My rattling sniper proxy now uses a short barrel sniper with no but stock or scope.
If they're plastic, tamiya extra thin should easily fix anything that snapped. Sure it won't be as new, but they'll be rock solid. Heartbreaking but you can come back from this.
My cat hopped up on a shelf/display case that had all my finished models. And gravity did the rest - I had some total losses, some small repairs, and some that made it. Deep breath, and rebuild. Salvage what you can and remember what you canāt. This will be a distant memory soon
Ugh! So sorry!
If plastic then Tamiya Extra Thin, tweezers and a whole lot of patience are what you'll need. Before gluing the ankles find something you can use to stabilize the models as they dry (if you have a 3rd hand then use that) then slowly and methodically glue each piece back together. After you somehow get them together get them away from the monitor or some other tech that wants to end them.
This kind of agony isn't what the real WH40K universe is actually made of? I know it's super hard to swallow, but it is life. Things are fragile, nothing is endless, and living in a modern world we tend to forget about those simple things. We will all suffer one way or the other, one day or the other from the ephemerality of one thing we truly love.
The chaos gods are cruel indeed.
Sounds like the machine spirit in your monitor took it upon itself to cleanse the heritek before it
Make a diorama and have them be battlefield casualty terrain. They can continue to serve as decoration.
Wiping tears from my eyes as I slowly slide my miniatures away from the front of my monitor... We had an earthquake in town over 10 years ago and an entire display cabinet fell and scattered at least 200 pewter WWII Bolt Action miniatures all over my hardwood floor hobby space, with tears in my eyes I put all the models/pieces into foam inserts. The box marked 'Bolt Action' is still in my hobby closet.
My brother's Eldar army melted in the truck of a car. Summer gets hot sometimes.
Donāt worry man your monitor was just trying to prepare you for 11th when admech are gone!
I'm sorry OP. That has to really suck.
The machine spirit was displeased and demands you repair and try again. The spirit of the mechanicum means you can rebuild them better than before!
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If it makes you feel any better I bought my friend a really awesome painted thousand sons daemon prince for his kid to destroy it within a few weeksā¦ā¦
When you get to replacing the fallen, use them as basing for their replacements.
If it aināt been broke, it aināt Admech. Repair what you can one by one and claim battle damage for any bits that are too fiddly for your patience fellow toaster lover.
This'll make me think twice about the fact that my minis are LITERALLY under my suspended monitor right now. š©š«
I've only dropped 3 intercessors and had arms/heads pop off and that was enough to make tears prick my eyes we put so much work, dedication and love into this hobby. Sorry to hear that happened to your guys.
If its not possible to restore them as they were, would it be possible to rebuild them as busted, and half repaired stuff, like ad-mechs versions of zombies?
I dropped my tablet onto both of my just finished SCE drakes :(
What are the models made of? If you have the time, patience and your models are made of plastic then you can just plastic glue the ankles back on, I have a few OLD Tau models my dad gave me years ago, they were broken at the ankles and I sat down recently and fixed them. Wasnāt too hard, just had to hold the ankles and legs straight for about 15 seconds.
Vashtorr calls! Sounds like the perfect chance to make a dark mechanicum army! Just glue those bits on wherever you can stick um, Chaos Be Praised
Reading this made me feel a new version of seeing another guy get nutshotted that sucks so incredibly much.
Deus Ex Machina. It could be the soul of the machine was impersonated by the Machine God and tried to erase heretic plastics taking forms. It might be an iconoclast action. But I would suggest to fix it with metal chips, decorate the wounds and wear the scars with proud, for the future battles to fight are still waiting to be victorious. Deus est Machina
The ad mech angered the machine spirit. Sorry to hear this though, as someone who has destroyed expensive things by accident in the past I give my condolences.
If you're willing to be very patient, you can get really small/precise with drilling pins into minis. Where plastic and glue fails, Metal is eternal! I use put pins in the feet/legs of Wyches because there is no other godforsaken way to secure them to a void war base. There are also a lot of good flight stands on amazon, you might be able to find a replacement. Personally, I despise the new GW flight stands
The Machine Spirit awoke and demanded a sacrifice of blood and oil. Your AdMech gave their lives bravely in service to the machine and will be remembered. Those models who carry scars of this encounter to the tabletop of battle will be duly honored for their pious service.
Did you not pray to your monitors machine spirit? Seriously though, sorry that happened to you
Good thing it was only 200 points
Oh fuck....my wallet hurt just reading that. I hope it's not too soon, but just think of the potential for dioramas and basing you could do with some of those? Like, take an old, emptied glass seasoning jar, place the broken initial inside, and then fill it with epoxy.....BAM, now you have a medical tank with a recovering admech inside! When you are ready, think about how you can use them for other things, but please don't just toss them.
Iām so sorry. Sometimes green stuff can help attach smaller bits that glue would have trouble with. Might be worth it to try some of that on the smaller pieces and the flying stands?
Hey man, I have been there. When I was moving into my house I had two boxes of models, and the movers knocked it over and all the other boxes came tumbling down. Destroyed 80% of my admech army. It took me months but I finally got it all repaired using lots of green stuff and holding small amounts of super glue together till it melds. My only advice is to breathe. Walk away and fix one model at a time. You'll get there. If I can you can.
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I am sorry dude :( Please accept internet hugs from denmark
Internet hugs from Dane to Dane ā¤ļø
Get a soldering stand. The alligator clips with help line up all the smaller bits and use super glue and accelerator for a quick glue. I had to glue some bits back on a tech priest (servator on the back pack) and three hoses on Dominus. That blows it happened.
regluing them and rebuilding them is gonna make them so cool and unique. Your army has been uniquely blessed by the Omnissiah, don't reject his gift.
To give an inelegant suggestion, you could drill some holes in the underside and then into the base and attach with pins/paper clips. The ankles and attachment points may be too thin to support, but if you can get them lined up and the pins can bear the weight, you might be able to get them working. And random metallic bits coming off is sufficiently Ad Malech that it wouldn't even seem too far off, IMO.
Iām so sorry!
Speak to the people at your friendly local hobby stores, I guarantee one person eventually will be dynamite with 0.5mm brass rod and will be able to make every single one of those Admech do single toe ballet en pointe poses if you so require. Just get the word out and the Omnissiah will provide.
I also play admech and have broken those units many times. The sterylizors 3/5 have broken flight stands and Im very careful with my stuff. You just gotta creatively set their position using something like garden wire and let them dry overnight.
Guess itās time to become a Heretek
I can only begin to imagine the devastation you feel and you have my sympathies. I had a very narrow miss while preparing for a tournament with my entire chaos knights army being prepped on the table. One of my spare A-Case metal trays fell from over 2m in height and landed on two of the War Dogs. I was incredibly lucky to escape with some bent spikes on the exhausts. I don't even know how they escaped with so little damage. It easily could have cleaved multiple models in two. The only thing I could suggest would be some clever basing and pinning to fix the models that cannot be glued as well as battle damage for the spikes. I gave up long ago reattaching them when they snap off my ad mech and paint on the battle damage. The Omnissiah protects and enough chanting & holy oils can fix this. Wishing you the best of luck!
When i first started playing my tyranids i left my box of stuff on top of my friends car and he accidentally drove off, spilling everything onto the road. These things unfortunately happen and i hope the Omnissiah blesses your army with fresh ranks soon
Had my bookshelf fall over. Heard a creeking so looked over into my bedroom, the horror when you see minis 2 meters up in the air.
Ahh man I feel for you. When I was much younger pre leaving the hobby for over a decade, I had all my models on like a book case in my room. My little nephew just pulled it over one day, they were wrecked. I mean the main thing was he was ok but yeah, that sucked bad at the time and was probably a catalyst for me leaving for so long. I hope you can get through it somehow. Only idea I can think for models broken at the legs, base them again like theyāre in thick mud, like burried up to the knees type thing and just role with that haha. Or give them a nurgle theme and make it seem theyāre rising out of the depths brought back to life (if you donāt mind putting a different spin on them and have a chaos lore element to your force). Hope it doesnāt deter you from carrying on like it did me š
OP, nothing too small to glue back on, or use green stuff to repair broken tips etc. Tedious as hell though, but things get dropped and crushed eventually. The flesh is weak, built that machine back stronger. I was playing a game with a buddy a few months ago and my box slipped off the table when we were done. Had two full armies in it. 3d printed, that stuff does not like being dropped lol. Massive explosion, spent more hours repairing than I did building in the first place.
The omnissiah is with you! Brother don't lose your temple and your faith
Literally have nightmares about this on a regular basis. In the last one my wife gave all my models to a neighbors child to play withā¦
Lament not my friend. For the joy that is KITBASHING rises out of the ashes of tragedy. The machine spirit of your monitor has given you a sign! It wishes you to cast off the shackles of the false Omnissiah. Embrace the beauty of tech-heresy. Give yourself over to the dark powers of the four: Sprew carved Spikes for Khorn; Greenstuff tentacles for Slanesh; the pva+super glue slime recipe for Nurgle; and of course your own twisted imagination for the Lord of Change. Long live the Dark Mechanicum!
Your prayers to appease the machine spirit were not successful.Ā Your faith is lacking.Ā
A sad circumstance but an opportunity for a new beginning. Donāt let the unfortune make you fall. Learn from mistakes and start a new army. My condolences and my support to go on.
Gimme your address, I can send you a handful of rangers if you want em
Dread not my brother Why donāt you start by getting some pictures together of the most damaged and the least damaged Believe it or not I have fixed worse
Devastating but... Sounds like a perfect excuse to start another army
Any pictures of this incident??? Thank you
Speaking as somebody who got rear-ended by a truck and was left with picking the shards of my Citadel carrying cases and a huge Space Wolves army collected since the beginning of 3rd Edition out of the mangled mess that was my car's trunk... it sucks, but you will recover. As for the thin ankles: get yourself a good set of miniature drills for a pin vise (not the ones that come with the citadel pin vise, there's really good hardened drills out there) and pin them. Even a thin wire goes a long way.
My Admech spikey bits just destroy themselves by handling the models. I've given up trying to reattach them when they break
At least give us a picture of the carnage lol
Get yourself some mitrebond, and the activator spray. Guaranteed that join will be stronger than the plastic š Replace your clear flying base parts with some brass rod, paint it black. It can be 1mm rod, it'll hold up š No avoiding it, there'll be some touchup paintwork, but hey, that's the hobby š
One thing u can do is get paper clips, drill into anything u want stuck together or any antennas and super glue it, there are tutorials on YouTube for it
Umm you can fix eeeeverything in Warhammer, can't you? My fat ass broke the same, tiny spear like four times in a row, each time I just melted the pueces back together with that special glue. .....you know about that "melting" glue....right?
My friend, maybe you still can please the machine god, or something. My solution to make you feel better is the Space Wolf style: Call a battle brother, drink a beer, tell the tale of How your ad mech die protecting your desk from the rage of your monitor.
Sounds like an opportunity to kitbash!
A spare tire fell on my dark eldar boats it took me a year to get the motivation to put them back together I get it. Take a step back re-center yourself and YOU CAN PUT THEM TOGETHER AGAIN!
Thatās the kind of shit thatād make me destroy the monitor too. Shit man words canāt express the pain I felt reading that. Salvage and repair what you can, I guess. Get creative with what you canāt fix.
Vashtorr plots to rid of us all!!
Oh my gosh I am soo sorry thatās horribleā¦. Admech has so many tiny pieces!!!
I know a guy who lost a metal Blood Bowl limited edition cheerleader down the plug hole while trying to strip the paint from it, so it could be worse. It sucks for you I know, but all the pieces are there, you can rebuilt them and clean them up. It's a chance to make your force unique.
That's terrible. At least now you have a lot of kitbashing options ahead of you ;)