RE: RE: [FT] UNSC Mini Assembly

Laserlight Wonders:
>How thick wire?
>I've been fortunate enough not to have to do this with my Islamic Fed
ships but i suspect some of the others will require it.

I've pinned a ton of figures together over the years, and use brass rod
available from hobby/model-railroad stores to pin with.  My friend Dave
uses paperclips (plain metal ones).

Either works really well, and you don't need particularly thick wire,
especially if you put 2 or 3 pins in a major joint.  This does not take
long, at all, and using the "paint on the end of the pin" method,
alignment
isn't very difficult.  You just have to be careful when you drill.

The brass rod I use is tiny - got to be 1/32" or so, I imagine.  I
forget
the guage when I bought it (0.020" or 0.010" or something - don't know
if
it had a guage size mentioned).  I could dig a bit out and stick it in
my
vernier calipers if you really need to know... :)

Go with paperclips.  They work really well, and they're *cheap*.  The
trick
is to get a good drill bit of the right size - just a hair over the size
of
the pin. That gives some space for the cyanoacrylate glue in the hole -
you
don't end up scraping all the glue off as you slip the pin in place into
the hole.

Clothes hanger wire would be a *huge* mission - difficult to drill the
hole
through all the pieces accurately, hard on the miniature (big hole),
etc.
And entirely unnecessary, I think.  Can be done with much thinner wire,
if
stiff.

Adrian

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Adrian Johnson
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