Will it destroy my fex?

[SteelTitan]

Hai ppl,

back in the days when i had no idea what to do with my nid army i configured my fex (previous edition) with a BS, EC and ST. But after not reaching combat 8 out of 10 times I feel i dont really need the ST anymore, id rather have a VC, thus wanting a sniperfex. (cheap: BS, VC, +BS).

On my old model the BS is in the lower arm sockets, the ST in the upper arm sockets.

Will I be able to remove/cut/whatever the ST and place a VC?

My worries are that destroy my very nice paint job.

What should I do:

1) cut of/pull of just one arm and do the VC one handed and leave the other ST in his socket (thus mimizing chances of destruction and/or failure)
2) cut of/pull of both arms, hoping I can get the other arm on there as well, without a really stupid pose because the BS might be in the way.
3) not to anything at all, its not do-able to get a VC on after you painted the whole bloody thing.
4) buy a new one, which i dont want to do

Anyway, does anyone has experience with this sort of thing?
Hope someone can help me

Thanks!
SteelTitan

[zark]

Since its an old metal model you should be able to just use brute force to take the talons out of their sockets with minimal damage, then just add your VC.

[yoritomo]

You will have to repaint some of your carnifex, there's no way around it.

In your situation there are two good options. The first is what zark said, just pull the arms off. The only problem is if the arms tear instead of just popping off. In this case you would have to take a knife or something and clear out the joint before you could put the new arms in.

The second option is to take some wire cutters or a knife and cut the arms off near the joint. If you do this to both the old set of arms and new set of arms then it is just a matter of matching up the cuts. The big problem here is that you will lose some of the posibality of your carnifex.

Either way I think it's best to lose both scything talon arms. It shouldn't be that much trouble to take them off and the finished product would look much better in my opinion.