I'm getting ready for ECC, busily painting missiles, putting fighters on
earring posts, packing ships, and so forth. One thing I discovered is that a
lot of the minis don't quite fit on the posts for their bases. In most cases
this is no real problem as I can just drill out
with a 5/64" bit and the post will fit snugly. In some cases, though,
I have the opposite problem--the hole is too big for the post, and the
minis are too flat (Voroshilevs and a Trieste) for me to drill a smaller
diameter hole inside the original. I could just drill another hold slightly
displaced from where it's supposed to be and hope that doesn't throw things of
balance, but I wanted to see if anyone had any
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> Laserlight wrote:
I think what I have done in these cases is modify the entire post and filed
and shaped it to fit the figure as best as possible. Sometimes that has
required cutting the smaller diameter post off and shaping the larger diameter
post to make the fit.
Or you could simply drill through and fill with "top" hole with a putty or
filler.
This is what I did also (modify the post to fit the hole) [no jokes, please].
This also works when, inevitably, the figure falls over and the plastic post
breaks.
On the one model, UNSC CE, where the modle was thinner than the post (after
it broke), I drilled the post and inserted piano wire with about 1/8"
above
the post. Then glued the figure on the piano wire/post combination.
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Fill the old hole with epoxy putty (blue/yellow sculpting strip or
milliput) and then redrill an appropriate sized hole when set.
Jon Davis said:
> I think what I have done in these cases is modify the entire post
Sometimes
> that has required cutting the smaller diameter post off and shaping
Well, I didn't want to do that because I'd already painted and glazed them.
However, I accidentally broke the peg off a post this afternoon, and it turns
out that the revised post just about fits. I
drilled them out a little more--thinking "this is about to look like a
lucky Kra'Vak hit any second now" the whole time--and they don't fit
I suspect that these have might already have been suggested but anyway
...
Try filling the hole with a two part epoxy glue and supporting the model
either end while it dries (Humbrol enamel tins are almost exactly the right
height to support a spaceship on a 'standard' plastic hex base).
Alternatively, snap / cut off the smaller diameter nib on top of the
post and then drill out the existing hole to match the thickness of the post.
> Laserlight wrote: