How to fix it?

By Digitalkiller, in X-Wing

Ey guys, recently my X-wing was shutting down :( and one of its laser bend in a horrible direction

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I remember that some miniature, (not sure if I can name the brand here) if I put it into hot water I could bend it the part to the right position. If I do that with the X, will work? the painjob will fall off?

Do you recommend another way to fix it?

That increases its firing arc, right?

Could potentially put a drop of superglue near base end then as it drys carefully bend it back

That increases its firing arc, right?

Too soon man....too soon.

That increases its firing arc, right?

It gives him Arvel's ability

Medic!!

I'd just bend it back. If it doesn't stay back in it's original position just do the drop of super glue. If that fails.. i'd chop it off clean at the bend and reglue it.

Ok, so a few questions first. Has that snapped or is it just bent in that direction?

If it snapped I would glue it first and slowly try to bend it back in place.

If it has not broken then try to bend it back and accept the fact that this could snap it.

You can try hot water, not boiling but hot, see if that softens up the plastic at all, bend it a little and dunk it in cold to harden it back up. That might work. I have heard of people using a heat gun/hair dryer you bend them back. The down side to that is that you could melt the whole dang thing.

Just give it a burial in space with the rest of the scrum! ;) seriously though, I'd go with glue of some sorts.

Let Porkins fly it.

The only way to fix it is to make it two points cheaper, obviously.

Use Warm Water or a hair dryer. These models are a resin cast and this is the best technique for straightening out resin cased models. The Hair Dryer is the faster route, but be sure to keep the models a fare distance away from the dryers heat source. For more info Google How to straighten out Finecast.. A problem GW players have been dealing with for a few years new.

Thanks to all for your answer... even the funny one ;)

Northdownwest, Yes I used to fix GW and FW miniatures with hot water.... I'll give it a try, just wanted to be sure that the material and/or paint does not suffer too much with that treatment.

Thanks again.

See, now I'm forced to wonder which one was the funny one.

See, now I'm forced to wonder which one was the funny one.

I know, right? He didn't even "like" any of the potential funny ones to give us a hint.

I know a guy I played against at tourney who said he got some paper clips and super glued them on the wings and then painted them. He did that with his bwing tho (notorious for breaking along with the xwings) but I'm sure it would still work.