"Fixing 6mm swords" Topic

I have recently decided that I want to get into 6mm Napoleonics. I have a bunch of Adlers that I bought 15 years ago and pulled them out to look at them.
My cavalry figures have many swords broken off. Is there a way to repair them or do I simply have to discard them and get some new ones?

Try using bits of metal trimmed from staples with pin snips, fix with superglue.

Good luck!

Depends how much your time is worth.

You could also paint them as-is and hope they blend in well with the other figures.

I'm a bit of a stickler for how my figures look. It would probably drive me crazy to see hussars with no sabres…

That staples idea is a good one. I am going to try that.

You can super-glue the ends of flat tooth picks to their hands.

Pieces of foil?

Try cutting small slivers of 3x5 cardstock and affix with a bit of super glue. Once stuck on and dried, you can go back and put a layer on both sides of the sword and they should be strong enough to defend themselves from fat fingers (like mine!).

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Tom

Great ideas! Thanks everyone!

Thin copper wire….wrap it around their hands, form as desired and paint to blend with gloves ect.

Glue tip of sword against hat plum (sword upright) or horse neck (sword levelled) so your repair is stronger.

We can supply some spare sword blades if you really need them
You need a pin vice and a compass/weaving type needle and a .5 drill bit.
Using the compass point make a dent into the cleaned up hilt, a nice tidy flat surface makes life easier, then drill into the guard/hand have a little water handy lubes the bit.
Then dab of super glue, dip in the end of the replacement and fit. Takes a little time to begin with but very soon its a doddle. You can also use flattened nylon bristles from brooms or flattened brass/fuse wire. Some use plastic as well.
L

Leon described this method of drilling out the hand to me a few years ago; it is fiddly but very effective and I now do this as standard for new purchases. I use nylon bristles rather than wire and they spring back to shape should you brush against them.

He told me that drill bits this fine are available from jewellers' suppliers; I get mine from one of the suppliers in Hatton Garden. The bits come in little cases of six and are not cheap. They come in a wide range of sizes and I have accumulated 0.6mm, 0.7mm and 0.8mm in addition to my original set of 0.5mm.

So something like this would be what I am looking for?

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I replaced mine with brass that I thin flattened with needle nose pliers…looks great and very secure!

Yep that would do but simpler ones are fine too as in
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useful for all sorts of things including DIY carpentry.

Buy decent bits, cheap one tend to break easily, I tend to go for German ones.
L