Hi guys,

I'm into X-Wing for a month or so now, and while I generally love the miniatures and their design and paint and everything, I don't really love the flight stands. While they're a minor annoyance with the small ships and generall work just fine, I find the ones for large ships to be incredbily wobbly. All the time, I lift up my Lambda or Decimator and the base comes crashing down back on the table, and when you touch the ships, they wobble quite a bit. This problem is only increased for Huge Ships, whose stands seem incredibly fragile (I managed to break off the Gozanti stand simply by trying to detach it from the base and had to glue it back on). So, am I simply too stupid to handle the miniatures or is this a problem for other people and if so, what did you do? I find the bases of Armada ships much superior. Right now I'm thinking of simply permanently glueing the Large Ships and Huge Ships to their bases, and in case of the Large Ships to cut a "canal" into their pilot templates so I can remove them laterally. What do you guys suggest?

Whoa. Stop.

Let me think for awhile before you go cutting things.

I'll get back to you.

Someone on here had a link for some light adhesive that tightened up the pegs and removed the wobble, not sure where that was though. You could also dive in and magnetize the large ships, then it's no longer an issue at all.

Okay, the first thing to do in this or any other case is to first take a picture of the breakage immediately. Then contact FFG and see if they will replace the part for you first.

If you can't get a replacement then you have to fix it yourself. I'll write down some ideas later after work today and post them up later. Unless anyone else wants to discuss how to pin models together?

What broke from the Gozanti is the peg in which you push the stand. So the "spare part" would be the Gozanti. It's not that much of an issue there, though. The Gozanti doesn't have alternative pilots, so I simply glued the **** thing together and how it holds. Although I still sweat every time I try to use the Docking Clamps because there's so much force on such a tiny area with those **** stands...man, I really would love if they switched to the ones they use for Armada like yesterday.

I should perhaps add that I made the bases a bit heavier for better grip, which you could argue helps with the falling apart. But it would have nothing to do with the wobbliness. And while the magnetizing is pretty cool (seen pictures), it's beyond my abilities. But do you think it'll work for the Gozanti as well?

My main problems have been the YT-2400 and the Decimator. If you have a lot of pegs, try them all for the best fit. I know they should all be the same, but they aren't. In some cases using the huge ship base on a large ship has also worked.

I don't have that many bases and pegs, unfortunately, and quite frankly, I'm paying good money for that stuff so I expect it to work as advertized. And again, no such issues with Armada.

i HATE the large ship pegs. They dont fit properly, often my decimator pops off the base mid-move (from the base not on the model, that part holds solid).

Thats why ive taken to magnets. Dont remember the mm scale i used since ive had these for quite awhile but i already had magnets of the right diameter to stick in that hole on the base.

Something I was told but cannot say for sure is that the pegs for the new ships are different than the pegs for the older ships. I went through my pegs (which I hadn't sorted) and found that indeed some pegs weren't just loose but didn't fit at all (I could turn it upside down and they'd fall out). I separated all my pegs old and new. I have less issues now.

Something I was told but cannot say for sure is that the pegs for the new ships are different than the pegs for the older ships. I went through my pegs (which I hadn't sorted) and found that indeed some pegs weren't just loose but didn't fit at all (I could turn it upside down and they'd fall out). I separated all my pegs old and new. I have less issues now.

This is true.

I didn't know the newer pegs had difference to them from the old ones; I generally kept them stacked in sets of two in storage.

As for large ships, I've actually just been using the epic ship pillars for my large ships on the occasions that I use them. They feel a little more solid (to me), if you dont mind being above the fight.

I don't have any spare stands and bases, though...

On the topic of old pegs:

I only got into the game 2-3 months ago. So all of my purchases are very recent. Yet ALL of my ship pegs from old and new large ships have this issue. FFG updates the kits with FAQ'd cards so i dont see why they wouldnt update the pegs.

Ditto here.

I don't have any spare stands and bases, though...

You will soon, don't worry.

Gluing the pegs onto the ship was a bad idea. Now how are you going to repair those docking clamps when they eventually break? Transportation? Storage? There are a lot of reasons why you shouldn't muck around with an $80 model when you have no experience with modelling.

Did you contact FFG?

You can fix the wobbly peg problem in large ships with a small piece of blu-tack put on to the male part of the peg and then pushing the assembly together. It then forms a tighter bond pretty much for good.

I think 'blu-tack' is called sticky tack in the states. It basically Plasticine type putty you use to stick memo to stuff or posters to walls etc.

I had a problem with my K-Wings... the peg on the bottom of the base of the ship kept breaking... so instead of dealing with customer service, which is excellent but glacially slow, I pinned them.

However, I have 10 years of modelling experience and the tools to do it properly as well...

I had this problem with most the ships in the M3a/scum wave. Lot of peg fixing that month

Gluing the pegs onto the ship was a bad idea. Now how are you going to repair those docking clamps when they eventually break? Transportation? Storage? There are a lot of reasons why you shouldn't muck around with an $80 model when you have no experience with modelling.

Did you contact FFG?

Nope I didn't, but I don't live in the states. Transportation isn't such a big issue for me as I'm only playing casual in my own home.

Basically what I do whenever I have a peg that doesn't fit quite right is just shift them around until I find a combination that works. Some slip right off while others fit snuggly. You just gotta find them.

I'm currently toying with the idea of magnets. Do you think they work for the Gozanti as well?