RE: [FT] Ship repair

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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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Jon Davis
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 5:55 AM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [FT] Ship repair

Laserlight wrote:
>
> 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
> suggestions for simple fixes.

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.

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