"How do you replace short-shot plastic swords?" Topic
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4th Cuirassier | 06 Jan 2017 9:59 a.m. PST |
Sometimes when you buy Airfix, HaT plastics etc you find swords the length of a steak knife because the mould didn't fill properly. This is called I think "short-shot". You get this with bayonets etc too, but there it's less of an issue. You can always just trim the stump away and have a guy who hasn't fixed his bayonet. But with swords there's no such fix so you are potentially stuck with a sword that looks silly. Has anyone come up with a good way of fixing this? |
The Beast Rampant | 06 Jan 2017 10:27 a.m. PST |
For that, and spaghetti-blades, I chop it off and drill out the base (or sometimes just use a heated dissecting needle for very soft platics), curve to suit and hammer a section of brass rod flat, file the tip sharp, cut off the needed section, and glue in. I've even done it with 15's. I had an entire bag of 28mm Old Glory cuirassiers I had to do that to. |
Yellow Admiral | 06 Jan 2017 1:26 p.m. PST |
I have a worse suggestion than Sir Rampant: cut off the sword hand (or entire sword arm?) of the overly-animated figures you're never going to use and peg-and-glue them onto the figures you do want to use. Carrying that to an extreme: acquire entire boxes of sword-wielding miniatures to supply the swords+hands for such an effort. Over a period of time you can get cast-off boxes or leftover sprues from other plastic fanatics, or just splurge and spend money on new ones. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming the 1/72 plastic miniatures are as good a deal in the UK as they are in the US, or they wouldn't be a reasonable substitute for the other lines of miniatures in more popular scales like 15/18mm, 28mm, etc.) - Ix |
Markconz | 06 Jan 2017 4:03 p.m. PST |
One other idea that's worked for me many years ago. Stick a bit of plastic or card to end of sword to extend it. Then cover entire sword with epoxy glue or similar. It will dry hard an be a solid piece. |
The Beast Rampant | 06 Jan 2017 6:49 p.m. PST |
Oh, Yellow Admiral, you and your Gordian knot solutions! |
Marc the plastics fan | 08 Jan 2017 3:15 p.m. PST |
Admiral. I use 1/72 because they look good. Price is a plus. From the very large battles and dioramas I see on line from across the world, I would suggest 1/72 IS a popular size Swords – as above, flatten a brass rod (leaving the end as rod to slot neatly into a drilled hand). The brass will file neatly to the desired sword shape |
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