Re: [FT] Ship repair
From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <s_schoon@p...>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:39:31 -0800
Subject: Re: [FT] Ship repair
Fill the old hole with epoxy putty (blue/yellow sculpting strip or
milliput) and then redrill an appropriate sized hole when set.
Schoon
>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