I should have had the next 4 issues up by now, but whilst taking the pictures I noticed that something didn't look right.

My 'right' palm has an 'L' on one of the finger pieces, and indeed, the thumb is looking like it's making a left hand.

Have e-mailed Hachette CS, but no reply yet. Also, the last joint before the thumb attaches to the palm is very loose. The pin for this looks to be around 1mm too long.

I will get more pictures up over the weekend.

And I may very well be cancelling my subscription to this. This partwork has been one problem after another for me. I have already detailed the problems and delays caused by having the wrong palm in the correct issue.

Well, this seem to be a reoccurring issue with Hachette, at least so far as their dealings with me.

Today (1st February) I received my latest delivery - with the delivery note dated 3rd JANUARY! Now, I cannot lay this squarely in Hachette's lap as the delay could be theirs, the post office, or neighbours having taken it in and only just having got it to me. As there is no franking on the label, I can't tell.

However, back in NOVEMBER my delivery consisted of two single copies of two different issues, and two copies of a third issue. I had no reply to my e-mail, and nothing further happened.

My December delivery was without incident, four different issues. Still no sign of the missing issue from the November issue.

Calling CS was a nightmare, the phone was never answered. Then I read they were changing the company and gave it a while. When I called again, the call was taken quickly, and I spoke with someone who told me that a replacement for the mising issue was going to be sent out, so I waited.

I'm waiting still. It was NOT in the delivery I received today. Worse, we are back to the same state of affairs I was in back in NOVEMBER. Two different issues, two copies of the same issue, and one issue absent.

Two months out of three, Hachette have messed up my collection, and my hope they can pull themselves out of this mess is dwindling by the day. I still have no faith in sending them another e-mail, and i'll have to wait until Monday to see if I can call them again - at my expense as it will have to be from a mobile.

This is triggering my Asperger's and adding to my problems, so I may just give them until the end of February to catch me up to where I should be, or I cancel outright.

I was also looking forward to the Spitfire Mk1a they are about to release, but that hangs in the balance too.

Fed up, really astonishingly fed up, full of the flu, and amazingly fed up and unwell. Was looking forward to getting on with something today, only to find that I will have to wait AGAIN for someone else to sort it out.

i would give yourself time to get over your symptoms, look at this as time out to allow you to recover then hopefully things will sort themselves out, and you will be in a better place. just my thought.

Sorry to hear that Semaj, I will admit, however, that the colour of the parts does not worry me. Having received two copies of the first thoracic cage part, I have done a little demonstration on one.

As I was a modeller first, and came to partworks later, I have a number of airbrushes and a compressor. I have also got an interest in how things are made for TV and movies. As such I watch Adam Savage's "Tested" channel on Youtube. It was here that I heard about the product I used.

Molotow seem to be a company that manufacture permanent markers. Adam Savage used their Liquid Chrome refill to improve the looks of a foam LARP sword for a costume he was doing for a Comicon.

The liquid in the refill is the correct consistency to run through an airbrush, and he had no problems using it.

I had a bit more trouble, I ended up touching the part before the stuff was fully cured - thinking that permanent marker ink would dry almost instantaneously. It doesn't, and takes a little while to properly cure.

I am not particularly worried, as for the rest of the work on the Terminator I will be spraying whole parts and not fiddling with masking to show the difference between coated and non coated on the same part.

I hope the two pictures do this justice, the difference in real loife is astounding, and I will be using it on all the parts that do not match the colour of the chrome parts.

As I am still unable to continue the build due to missing issues, I plan on working on the colour any day I am able (weather constraints, etc.), let the parts cure properly, then replace them in the packs to prevent damage.




In the top picture, the standard colouration is furthest away, with the sprayed half closer to the camera. In the second picture, the treated half is on the left.

OK, so I FINALLY got through to Hachette CS this afternoon. They confirmed that my issue 25 is on back order, apologised for the delay but it's down to the change of warehouse, and put in for my replacement issue 34 too. However, they are not allowed to confirm or deny any speculation on how long it will take, as the warehouse is concentrating on getting out the current issues to subscribers.

I WAS going to cancel my subscription, but one piece of information I wriggled out of them was that if I wanted to re-start my subscription later on, once I had a better chance of getting what I should be getting, then I WOULD NOT be able to start a new subscription - or re-start the original one - from the point at which I left off.

No, I would have to start receiving subscription issues from wherever they were at the time. The issues from when I was not a subscriber, I would have to order from their shop, providing they have one online at the time - which they don't at the moment or I would have just ordered the issues I need and saved myself the hassle.

So I could have been setting myself up for £100's to pay in a lump sum to get back into the game - and I do want that Terminator figure.

However, this is a lot of hassle and I can certainly understand anyone who wants to just say goodbye to all the hassle and stop collecting this partwork.

I can only hope that things are running more smoothly with the recently released Spitfire model. That is another one I would have liked to collect, but now I might just have to pass.

And although I think their warehouse staff need a talking to, some of the CS people really deserve a raise.

Six months, several calls to CS, and two attempts to unsubscribe, and I now have my missing issues.

The very nice woman I spoke to last week when I was going to quit found out that they had the issues in the shop. I still don't understand why if they had them in the shop, I hadn't had my missing issues, but she ordered them for me and they turned up today.

I now have to look out the rest of the collection, but should have some more progress up by the end of the week, with a possibility of the remainder coming next week.

Guess now I'll have to spray that second rib cage piece, and get it lacquered properly.

Issue 26.



If you have already screwed these two parts of the elbow together, you will now need to take them apart. Issue 26 includes a couple of small washers, one to go on each side of the piston connection.



Ensuring that the washers don't fall off, the piston can be clamped between the two parts.



With the front piston now connecting the upper arm and forearm, the pin left over from last issue is used as the hinge for the elbow.



Note the flat surface in the hole for the pin. There are two of them and they correspond with the two flat areas of the pin. When the pin is correctly inserted, these areas stop the pin rotating



With the pin through the elbow, it is screwed in from the other side.



After which there is a plastic part that gets glued in. Although the plastic part is glued over the screw, there is a hole in this part so the screw is still visible afterwards. The only reason I can think of for this part not being put in place first is that it prevents possible scratching of the part as the screw goes in.



And the outer piston connector can be screwed in. Unfortunately I can't find the picture of putting this in, but there is a specific way they want you to do it. There is a recess for the head of the screw in one side of the piston, and this is upwards in the picture. Personally, I don't see that it makes any real difference, but this way the head of the screw will be on the inside of the part so it is less visible.

Since my last update, I have been busy getting the thoracic cage sprayed with my Molotow Liquid Chrome. I still have to take care of the top of that assembly as that is where I have been holding it so far. The rest has had the Chrome, been left for a week or so, then a coat of Alclad lacquer, and given another week of curing.

This is the result so far.



The final chrome shoot should be today. I have just had my latest delivery, so I want to be back on with the build before I get another delivery again.

Andreas,

So far as I am concerned there is no need to apologise for posting information on the T-800 in a T-800 build thread. It is relevant information, and I have been slow to update of late. Turns out that not only do I have an Autism Spectrum Disorder, I likely have ADHD as well.

This is not only the reason for the long silence, but the cause of the massive effort I have just put in. I am now up to issue 52. I will finish that issue tomorrow as my camera is flat. Once that is done, I will be transferring the pictures to Imgur, and updating this thread with my progress.

I have all of the mods you mention, and all are installed on my build. The only problem I have had was there was a hidden bubble in the wrist joint I used, and the metal insert came out. I have glued and filled the insert back in, and should shortly be able to re-attach the wrist. Unfortunately I have, in the meantime, misplaced the three small pistons that conect the wrist to the arm, hence I have pictures of the current state of the build with no hand on. This should be rectified soon.

Issue 33



Detail for the left shoulder, and another part for the connection between the shoulders.



Glue the end onto the detail piece.



Which then goes onto the left shoulder like so.



Glue the other connector, a repeat of last issue.



And install, also as last issue.

I also used this as an excuse to make the hydraulic parts that go in the bottom of the Thoracic cage.



The hemispheres fit through the holes in the larger end of the cylinder, and are screwed together surrounding it.



Make both units, and that was that.