I have to confess I finished the campaign and loved it so much I restarted it to take different choices. Yep, I'm a sucker for a good single player RTS campaing.

Anyway, going back to modelling: Taking care of the seam lines has been a pain. If you sand too much you risk ripping the "skin" that has all the details. Thanks to your advices it's been a possible task.

I think I'm done with the sanding and I primed all the pieces. Once the paint dries I should be able to see any defects.

Oh, and SC2 cinematics are a great source of reference and inspiration

i've got the new game (SC2), it's basically a reboot of the original. The creatures are more detailed, so you should be able to get better reference pix

i have built a lot of vinyl models and they are different.

heat is your freind so grab a hair dryer or hot water.  Filling the lower half/ feeet is how i keep them upright. Gowron has some balance issues but my other 1/6 figs are fin on thier feet. Pinning to the base helps too. I fill my lower body halves with BBs fixed in place with white glue (no heat is generated in this.

First...you have to cut off the mold gates. Make SURE what you are cutting off is supposed to BE cut off. That means some test fitting and seeing how things will work when assembled is in order. When you are absolultely certain that what are you are going to cut off is correct mark it with a sharpie where you plan to cut. Heat the vinyl and with a new knife blade make deliberate, steady and careful cuts. Trim everything up and set it all aside.

Most likely it will take some reheating to get into shape. My ED-209 is pretty wraped but in time I will get him all heated up and bent into shape. ICE-Cold water  sets the vinyl where you want it.

To get things like arms and joints popped into place heat the socket end, ice the joint end and join the two. they should pop together. I use Epoxy and superglue mixed with baby powder to join and putty everything up. Scrub it all down with soapy water prior to laying on your primer. After that, its all paint.

HTH

They probably will since Activision bought blizzard and turned them into one giant money vaccume, like all their other sub companies.  The game thats coming out, its severly flawed, the multiplayer is worse then on battle.net 1.0 and the game itself is severly unballanced.

people have been screaming about the unbalanced units for months on the forums and they do nothing to change it.  And its not like oh its alittle to strong, but tier 1 units decimating all ground units in the game, or 5 air units being able to destroy anything you can throw at them without having upward of 3x the amount of units.

Iv been playing Sc since 1997, I wont be purchasing sc2

Gamera

I wish I'd picked up some of the marines when they were out but as Smeagol said the marketing was so bad I completly missed them. I'd be nice if they'd re-release the kits with the new game.

Yeah, me too. It's one of those kits that I wanted but I was still in college and without $ and by the time I started working it was gone Fortunately I got the hydralisk on ebay, not too long ago, at a fair price.

Cosmic J, thanks for the tips. I guess fine grit sanding and patience will do it.

I won't be able to work on it this weekend but I'll try to start soon and post some pictures.

Yes please post any photos you do, I'e the same kit buried in my stash. I pulled it out and looked it over when I got it but didn't even open the plastic bags the parts were in. I wish I'd picked up some of the marines when they were out but as Smeagol said the marketing was so bad I completly missed them. I'd be nice if they'd re-release the kits with the new game.

Vinyl is tricky. On the larger vinyl kits, friends of mine use a cellulose based primer from a rattle can, and then paint with acrylics.

I saw one of those hydrolisks up close though, and I think paint from a typical rattlecan would go on too thick.

When I paint vinyl I use Tamiya Fine White primer, and then arcylic paints over that - usually craft paints like Apple barrel or Anitas.

For removing seams, I use fine grit sanding sticks, 400 grit and higher. I know that shouldn't work, but it does, as long as I don't use too much pressure.

Good luck w/ whatever you use. Please post some pictures of the results you get.