if you have older ships and newer ships the pegs are very loose in or very tight depending on what pegs you are using. All you need to do is paint some rubber cement on the loose pegs and it tightens them up fine.
Veterans is off the boat.
if you have older ships and newer ships the pegs are very loose in or very tight depending on what pegs you are using. All you need to do is paint some rubber cement on the loose pegs and it tightens them up fine.
Or Magnet mod. I keep feeling like magnet mod is the right call.
if you have older ships and newer ships the pegs are very loose in or very tight depending on what pegs you are using. All you need to do is paint some rubber cement on the loose pegs and it tightens them up fine.
That may explain a lot. I keep my bases and pegs together and haven't changed them out since I put my kit together. I noticed that some ships are very lose. I thought it was just the ship now, I'm curious if that's the reason?
Since they're all thrown together I doubt I could sort them out.
I feel like this is one of those moments where you have to hit caps lock and mash the keyboard to truly express one's self.
I am very excited.
FFG always seems to just barely miss the window with their releases for all of my gift receiving opportunities.
And available in France : http://i.imgur.com/mhIZxL8.jpg . I can confirm that the content in terms of cards is like the FFG preview image, and as reported in my builder : http://x-wing.fabpsb.net/extensions.php
if you have older ships and newer ships the pegs are very loose in or very tight depending on what pegs you are using. All you need to do is paint some rubber cement on the loose pegs and it tightens them up fine.
Or Magnet mod. I keep feeling like magnet mod is the right call.
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I hate magnet mod because it just flops around all the time. I put a magnet on my b wing and I still regret it.
if you have older ships and newer ships the pegs are very loose in or very tight depending on what pegs you are using. All you need to do is paint some rubber cement on the loose pegs and it tightens them up fine.
Or Magnet mod. I keep feeling like magnet mod is the right call.
I was looking at magnets for another game. I just feel good about mod'ing my models. I tend to mess things up. But I did see where someone put that magnet and donut on a handfull of peg pairs. Cost far less in magnets since you only will ever need them for the number of ships you field in a single game. If you cut the upper peg in half you still get the model close to the magnet/donut pair. Perhaps that will reduce the falling over of the ship.
I haven't tried it but cutting up pegs is less costly and less intrusive then gluing stuff to my models.
Molding is more art than science. You can dial in the exact same settings on two injection molding machines beside each other, and get different tolerance results, nevermind different factories.
The most likely cause of the difference is a new series of molds created for the new factory because they didn't have the same machines, so the old molds were incompatible. It could also have been a change in resin manufacturer, and the resultant post mold expansion properties weren't accounted for/checked correctly.
Ok so the new coloured bases are going to garbage for the older ships then is what you are saying - lol.
There is such a thing as quality control and to be that far out is not within tolerance.
Dyes and resins are not the same. Just because they're coloured doesn't mean the resin is a different type, though it could be. Depending on the process, they could be buying in a coloured resin, or simply mixing the dye in the machine during injection (some IMMs have the capacity to do that, the advantage of it being that you have more control over your final colouration, and what resin you use).
Obviously there's quality control, but that's clearly the cause of the issue originally. All the new pegs fit the new ships and the new bases. The problem is compatibility with the old ones. They could have been tens of thousands of cycles into production before they realised the issue, and have sorted it out for the new releases (an IMM can punch out several thousand parts an hour. Assuming they're operating more than one machine to make these parts, the whole problem could have occurred over a week, and we're still working through the affected stock).
It wouldn't shock me to find out this whole problem was caused by trying to fix another problem: warped bases. I'd gotten several warped bases in the past, and I wasn't the only one by a wide margin. FFG happily replaced them all each time, but I'd imagine their search for a solution may have lead them to replacing molds or using an entirely new machine process. It gave them better results in terms of shape (and possibly allowed them to use dyes, hence the new colour options), but nobody thought to check the actual peg/socket compared to the older ones.
I am so excited!
Molding is more art than science. You can dial in the exact same settings on two injection molding machines beside each other, and get different tolerance results, nevermind different factories.
The most likely cause of the difference is a new series of molds created for the new factory because they didn't have the same machines, so the old molds were incompatible. It could also have been a change in resin manufacturer, and the resultant post mold expansion properties weren't accounted for/checked correctly.
Ok so the new coloured bases are going to garbage for the older ships then is what you are saying - lol.
There is such a thing as quality control and to be that far out is not within tolerance.
Dyes and resins are not the same. Just because they're coloured doesn't mean the resin is a different type, though it could be. Depending on the process, they could be buying in a coloured resin, or simply mixing the dye in the machine during injection (some IMMs have the capacity to do that, the advantage of it being that you have more control over your final colouration, and what resin you use).
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You are a wealth of information. Thank you!
it just flops around all the time
There's medication for that problem now.
it just flops around all the time
There's medication for that problem now.
careful though, those sometimes work too well
Houston, we have lift off
"It looks like a giant flying-"
"JOHNSON! What is that on the radar?!?"
Oh, it's shipping. Oh, oh it so is.
ediit: No Xwing products are On The Boat.... I don't know how to feel about this.
Don't worry, I'm sure HotR and Wave 9 (and the Wave 7 reprints) will spend plenty of time On the Boat once they're no longer At the Printer.