Spare Bestigors

I have this (probably) not good habit of scrolling through eBay to look for warhammer bits, and sometimes I end up purchasing things and forgetting that I did. I found that I had a bunch of spare Bestigor bodies and bits, which got me excited:

Looks like enough to build a unit...

10 bodies, command and regular bits, woo boy I thought I would be able to add a whole 'nother unit of besties! Since I already had 10 built from the Start Collecting kit from AoS, I thought to assemble them without the command group to bolster my existing unit.

Unfortunately I didn't take picks of the assembly process, but I do remember the snags when I was building these guys. I took a pick of the instructions from the Start Collecting box; you can see that you are supposed to preassemble the arms to the weapon first, then glue the sub-assembly to the bodies. However this ends up making atrocious gaps in the armpits and/or really tight fits. 

Good thing I kept the assembly instructions!

Another thing is that you probably want to glue the heads to the bodies first before the arm sub-assembly, to ensure that you still have room. The arms have to be at the right height and angle to give clearance to the heads/horns. I barely made this clearance:

Had to specifically use the narrow and more straight horns to fit onto the body here with how the arms were angled. If I glued the head to body first, I would have glued the arms in a lower angle...

I also decided to use plastic glue instead of super glue which I found out was more difficult to use for smaller pieces like wrists to hand contact points. The contact points would melt and deform if I pressed too hard and/or when the pieces slip...Note to self, use super glue for smaller models.

I had made some "sprue glue" with cut up sprue dunked into a bottle of old plastic glue to use to gap fill with. However it was hard to use on these man-sized models too, and ended up being a messy process. It was really goopy and viscous, make it hard to dap into gaps with any precision, but that might just be me having to perfect a recipe and add more plastic cement to dilute it. I still think sprue-glue is a good idea, but maybe for bigger and easier to reach gaps. Live and learn (I can't remember if I had just as much of a annoying time with the first batch of Bestigors...)

In the end, I only ended up with enough bits to build 6 additional Bestigors;  I didn't have enough arms to build more. I guess if I decide I need another unit I can build the command units for a total of 9. Back to scrolling eBay for bits, lol. I suppose just purchasing another box of 10 Bestigors might be more cost effective. We'll see when GW releases the Beastmen for Old World how they are boxed....

More besties!