| Kublaibenzine | 23 Dec 2011 6:38 a.m. PST |
I know there was a thread started a year ago on this topic, but I am just wondering if anyone has come up with new products/mechanisms for keeping weapons glued into the hands of figs. Thanks for any ideas/feedback folks. Kublaibenzine |
| Pictors Studio | 23 Dec 2011 6:53 a.m. PST |
Yeah, they invented plastic miniatures. |
| Plynkes | 23 Dec 2011 7:10 a.m. PST |
Personally I prefer them to come loose if knocked, and don't mind the connection to the hand being the weak point. Gluing a spear back in a hand is much easier than fixing one that has snapped off. |
| Sysiphus | 23 Dec 2011 9:06 a.m. PST |
Drill baby drill. I find that a drilled hand holds better than an open hand. I also mix a bit of baking powder in with the superglue to strengthen/ fill the joint.
And finally, brass wire not steel, the brass has some spring to it that is more forgiving of a fall. |
| corporalpat | 23 Dec 2011 9:39 a.m. PST |
E6000 glue and soft steel wire from the floral department. |
| DeanMoto | 23 Dec 2011 11:52 a.m. PST |
Good point Pylnkes. And that's sort of a concern for plastics with cast on the hand weapons; nicely sculpted though the weapon may be. That said, plastic can usually be repaired with modelling glue – if you have the broken part or a spare. Otherwise, for metal figures, I like to use either brass rod with hammered tips/points or nicely pre-made ones from folks like North Star. Oh, and as the OP question, superglued with metals. Best, Dean |
| Pictors Studio | 23 Dec 2011 12:21 p.m. PST |
I actually find that if the spear is plastic, it is easier to mend than glueing it back in the hand if it is metal. Usually with my metal figs the spear breaks and some of the paint comes with it. So then it is glue and repaint, with plastics this is not so. |
| Kublaibenzine | 29 Dec 2011 5:41 a.m. PST |
Thanks folks, appreciate the inputs! |
| TKindred | 29 Dec 2011 6:05 a.m. PST |
Like Pictors, I also prefer plastic. I have found that I can buy some as bits through a guy on ebay at good prices, but mostly, it's easy enough to make them out of stretched sprue and thin sheet if needs be. |
| Alex Reed | 01 Jan 2012 4:46 a.m. PST |
Funny… I'm busying replacing a lot of Plastic Pikes with Metal (GW Uruk-Hai), and as soon as the die gets back from Texas (we had a Die made to stand Gondorian Spears) we will be drilling out the hands of 180 Gondorian Spearmen to replace their spears with Brass Rods (and longer spears so that they look more like the spears in the movies) |
| Lion in the Stars | 01 Jan 2012 10:16 a.m. PST |
Uruk-hai pikes… *shudder*. A 1mm drill bit and a .040" piece of music wire, chopped with a serious pair of clippers. Like bolt cutters or screw cutters on electrician's pliers. |
