Re: What to pin with

>
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 07:37:53 +0100
> From: KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de (K.H.Ranitzsch)
> Subject: Re: RE: [FT] UNSC Mini Assembly
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: <adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca>
> > 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).
> ...
> > 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.
>
> If you need stiff wire, steel wires are hard to beat. I haven't done
much
> pinning yet, but I routinely use if for spears for my ancients minis
and I
> have never had a bent spear.
>
> Greetings
> Karl Heinz
>

I actually use straight pins (my wife sews), they are cheap and very
stiff