Miniature figures sword repair: Success!
Posted: March 18th, 2019, 3:31 pm
So I found this tutorial (probably well known to others on here, but it was new to me), about fixing the Barbarian's sword. I had one in perfect condition but acquired another that had a broken
off (and missing) blade. Originally I just super glued on a plastic tine, but that wasn't the best. You see players tend to pick the mini up by his sword and super glue just isn't up to the task.
His solution has held steady so far...
All Credit to Andrew Numbat ! (mini hand drill, wire from twisty ties, acrylic putty and some paint!)
Takes some patience to do all that slow drilling and blowing out the excess plastic dust, but a pretty satisfactory solution in the end.
Here are my results (touched up the paint since, it blends much better... doing the same thing with the Elf I probably need to file it with one of those mini files):
off (and missing) blade. Originally I just super glued on a plastic tine, but that wasn't the best. You see players tend to pick the mini up by his sword and super glue just isn't up to the task.
His solution has held steady so far...
All Credit to Andrew Numbat ! (mini hand drill, wire from twisty ties, acrylic putty and some paint!)
Takes some patience to do all that slow drilling and blowing out the excess plastic dust, but a pretty satisfactory solution in the end.
Here are my results (touched up the paint since, it blends much better... doing the same thing with the Elf I probably need to file it with one of those mini files):