As the title says, how many of you are filling in the bodies with green stuff?
Perhaps I’m just old fashioned but I had to fill in all of them.
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I, errrr, what? Which models? (really hoping we’re talking about Warhammer models too 
) Why?
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The helsmith infantry are all hollow bodies.
I don’t get why do that. I don’t think most new gw infantry models are quite so hollow these days?
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Ah ok, well then I can confidently say I don’t fill them with GS 
Why do you?
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Saves Jiminy W. Orkshop on plastic having them hollow, and probably they are designed for plastic to flow evenly in the mold. Plastic flow paths on sprue have really been optimized a lot in the last couple decades.
You rarely see parts these days arranged in a rectilinear grid like the space Marine sprues of old.
I wonder what percent by volume a modern GW centerpiece like $165 mechabull is composed of cheap as free air.
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They don’t like to make anything to be more than a couple of mm thick these days, which is why everything has front and back halves. Also, they make the sprue as flat as possible, so they chop it up into even more pieces. Models that would have been 3-5 piece (legs, torso, both arms, head) posable models back in 7th edition are now often 8+ pieces in a single pose that could be only 3 pieces.
I don’t know why you would fill the models, but if you want more weight then you could use something much cheaper than greenstuff.
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I stuffed sprue bits in there to bulk it out then green stuff over the top
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I’ve used sticky tac to fill in hollow parts before. Feels cheaper to do than greenstuff.
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But, like, why? It doesn’t add weight? And if it did, why would you want weight?
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It’s not about adding weight.
I’m just traditional I guess that I like knowing the models are complete underneath.
Same reason that if I got a tank with the under plate missing (I.e. a large designed gap) I’d make or buy a plate to fill it.
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Heavy thing = quality thing, its basic science!
So you mean like the hollow rogal dorn? Which helsmiths models have a gap like that?
It is for this reason I have so much metal, even to this day
I’ve never even heard of this before. It’s cheaper to put a penny under the base if you want weight!
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@chitzkoi The infernal cohort are models like these. Hollow inside. I.e. you can see up to their chest inside.
Ah I was reading this differently, I thought by hollow we were talking about full of air (but fully enclosed air).
So are we saying if we looked up the cohorts skirt there’s a non detailed void you can see from the outside if it’s not glued to a base?
As someone that has detailed the undercarriage of warmachines nobody but me will ever pick up and stare underneath. I could see that being a nagging thought.
Shakes fist at cloud GW is trying to sell us air and they won’t even do us the courtesy of protecting it on all sides..
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Correct, yes. Under the skirt nothing but air up to the waist or neck, I forget which.
Oh that’s is strange. I would be very bothered if there were visible gaps in the model anywhere