This is something that happened to me just this past week. I had recently received a clear X-Wing base and pegs package in the mail to try and get tighter-fitting bases and pegs on my X-Wing ships (I only own the ships featured in the original and sequel trilogies), not to mention replace a peg on my First Order TIE/fo Fighter Expansion Pack that broke. Well, guess what happened? As I tried to fit tighter-fitting pegs on my TIE bomber from my Imperial TIE Bomber Expansion Pack, the attachment peg on the miniature broke off just like that. [Giggle, just because I found it embarrassing.] Thankfully, the actual miniature wasn't damaged, and I was able to order a new TIE bomber miniature for free, but I want to know if this has ever happened to anyone else, where an attachment peg broke off someone's miniature and rendered it useless in playing X-Wing, but still useful as a little decoration or knick-knack. That's why I'm listing it here in the X-Wing Painting and Modification sub-forum since this is by virtue of technicality a modification. I tried listing this elsewhere in the forum, but no other sub-forum looked relevant. The funny thing about this was also that I never expected this to happen to my TIE bomber. In fact, I hoped that if this ever did happen, it would have happened to my TIE Advanced from my Imperial TIE Advanced Expansion Pack just because that's my favorite Imperial TIE fighter variant and it's the most underused and unloved TIE variant in the original trilogy. (Only Darth Vader used it in the original trilogy, and he only used it in Episode IV: A New Hope during the Battle of Yavin.) The other starfighters in the original trilogy were pretty much used all the time in those films, and those fighters that only appeared once still had multiple examples that got used in combat as well.

I've been having trouble matching ships with pegs as my collection grows. It really has me considering go the magnet route, but I'd rather be buying more ships, not magnets. Haha!

Honestly, magnets are super easy and cheap. I use 1/8th by 1/16th disc magnets for both my ships and pegs, and you can get 100 for 11-13 bucks on eBay.

I had an A-Wing whose peg had separated from the ship (the short one that comes attached on the model). Regular super glue fixed it. I just had to make sure I glued it facing the right direction.

@Piscopas I'm not too keen on magnets for my ships. I've seen so many people with that mod flying with their ships askew,or facing up to the sky because the model's center of gravity took over. It doesn't look good any more when they're doing that and to me, defeats the purpose of magnetizing the ship in the first place.

I thought about doing disc magnets instead of balls for that very reason.

I've only magnetized my Firespray, and that was so that it could fly horizontally (the way it sits in Empire when loading up Han). I've always felt the ship should fly like that, or with the tail canted up and the guns up high, if that makes sense.

It happened to the B-Wing from my Rebel Aces. I'm trying to pin it back together, but if that doesn't take, magnets will be my fallback.

2 hours ago, Force Majeure said:

@Piscopas I'm not too keen on magnets for my ships. I've seen so many people with that mod flying with their ships askew,or facing up to the sky because the model's center of gravity took over. It doesn't look good any more when they're doing that and to me, defeats the purpose of magnetizing the ship in the first place.

To be fair, one can put the magnet where the actual center of gravity is on most ships. It just so happens that this is not always where the peg sits, so you can't blindly put it there. I tried to figure it out for all ships and in most case got it to a usable space, it's all in the magnet thread. You need a properly sized magnet too, the usual small magnets on the crazy wingspan small ships will just not work. If you've seen K-wings wobbling all over, that was the issue. I swapped mine out for the bigger magnet and they can go through a shake test with almost no issues.

I just love being able to tilt a ship out of the way instead of having to take it off its peg and risk moving the base in doing so.

One day, I'll even think of a nice solution for the B-wings. I really dislike that they have to use a big bearing on a small peg to have enough to grab onto and not flop over, it does not look good! I don't want to create B-wing specific pegs though, as I'd just lose them...

5 hours ago, Piscopas said:

I've been having trouble matching ships with pegs as my collection grows.

This right here, it seems there's an increasing amount of variance in the peg/socket tolerance as time passes, ranging from loose and floppy to uncomfortably tight-

eghad I need take a moment to try and reword that last sentence.... ugh!

Nope, now I'm stuck with it. Might as well stop fretting and use it as best I can.

gonna quit now.

Hi, y'all,

In response to y'all's remarks suggesting the use of magnets, that's the problem as Force Majeure points out. It's why I'm not very keen on replacing pegs with magnets. I just took a photo using my smartphone and uploaded it to my computer, then further uploaded it to the Asmodee parts request form page, which is http://parts.asmodeena.com. And they'll send you a new miniature for free and you don't have to buy the entire expansion all over again, nor do you have to waste time using superglue to reattach the peg, which can be a real hassle and nightmare, or use magnets. That's my suggestion, especially to you, juxstapo, since obviously you've got the variance issue which I have as well. The problem, of course, is if the miniature itself is damaged, and that's where you'll have to likely buy the entire pack all over again. And yes, Piscopas, if I want to buy a new expansion pack, I don't want to have to buy a duplicate for whatever reason. I'd rather be buying new ships like you do. I personally like to buy the original and sequel trilogy ships. (Speaking of which, why doesn't FFG do a prequel trilogy core set and matching expansion packs? I know a lot of Star Wars fans don't necessarily like how the prequels were done, but I know they did do the ARC-170 in Rebel Alliance/New Republic livery as part of Wave IX, and that ship was introduced in Revenge of the Sith. I'm just asking. And also, I'm glad that FFG is finally releasing Wave X's ships come Groundhog Day. I wonder why they had to take so long.)

In other topics, what do y'all think of the title for Episode VIII?

The attachment point on one of my tie fighters disintegrated on my just this week.

16 hours ago, KraydKaflar said:

The attachment point on one of my tie fighters disintegrated on my just this week.

There must be saboteurs in the production facility on Lothal.

Or you rolled a Crit in real life.

@railwayman001 A lot of us would like Prequel Era expansion. Or as I would suggest, another version of X-Wing that would stay in it's own lane, tournament-wise, but could be cross-platform and played with the existing X-wing in casual play (Dual sided cards, FFG?). As to whether or not anything like a Prequel Expansion is in the works, I couldn't tell you, but don't hold your breath.

Also, for the most part if you're interested in discussing non-paint/mod topics, we have the many different forums to post in, so things don't get too muddled:

There's the general X-Wing forum page: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/forum/222-x-wing/

X-Wing Off Topic: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/forum/422-x-wing-off-topic/

X-Wing Squad Lists: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/forum/428-x-wing-squad-lists/

X-Wing Organized Play: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/forum/292-x-wing-organized-play/

X-Wing Battle Reports: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/forum/294-x-wing-battle-reports/

And so on.

Welcome aboard, and don't forget to post pics of your custom ships!

Yeah, Force Majeure, I'm not holding my breath, either. It's just a possibility.

And yes, KraydKaflar, I think saboteurs on Lothal did sabotage your TIE fighter. Maybe that's what happened with my TIE bomber. Or perhaps I'm saying this because I'm in the Empire's pay.

So far only a Tie Advanced ships peg came off, not quite sure how it did but at that point it did end up missing so had to get the ship replaced.

Hey, Zeonix,

I had been wishing this had happened to my own TIE Advanced first instead of my TIE bomber. You must have better luck than I do, although I'm sure you'll remind me that in our experience, there isn't such a thing as luck! But you did the right thing by getting it replaced. That's what I did with my TIE bomber (my older TIE bomber is still good as a decoration, and your TIE Advanced is still good for that purpose, too). Even if the pegs aren't good quality, and they include the attachment pegs, we have to give credit to the Fantasy Flight Games and Asmodee Editions folks. They're friendly enough to send us replacement miniatures if that happens, so we should cut them some slack even though this sometimes happens more often then we want.

I will say that the 1/8th by 1/16th disc mags will hold small ships no matter what. Even my Mist Hunter and Punisher are fine and stay put.

Someone has probably already mentioned it, but I'm too lazy to read:

Keep a stock of spare pegs about, (honestly, when do you play with all your ships at once?....... queue a dozen people responding with pictures of epic games using all their ships at once, oh well).

My "closest" FLGS (about 1.5 hours away), clearanced out their D&D attack wing bases, which worked really handily. If a ships mounting....uh.. "socket" is lost you can trim the bottom quarter inch off of a spare peg and pin it in the hole and etc. etc.

Now I should apologize for my unintentional condescension because I'm sure you've all already sprung to that conclusion.

There's a video floating around where a guy has replaced the peg on the ship with a tiny set screw. He then cut off the male plug from the flight stand and replaced it with an 1/8" ball magnet. He rough up the magnet with sand paper so the ship wouldn't slide too easily. The theoretical pull on those tiny magnets is just shy of 1/2 pound. More than enough to hold a small base fighter. You just need to be sure of the pole orientation before epoxying the magnet to the stand.

Countersunk ring magnet and ca nut or ball bearing is a lot easier to install.

I have issues with attachment posts twice. But different issues. The first was a Scyk. The post came right out attached to a too tight peg. I was eventually able to separate them and glue the post back on.

Recently, I had the half round top of a peg snap off in the attachment post of one of my defenders. I tried to drill that out without success. Then I tried to gently pull out the whole post, but the glue was too strong and that snapped off.

I paint my.bases and pegs black.

It solves the loose fit issue. Just a nice gummy layer of paint.

Dagnabbit, it happened to me again. Now it's happened to my Lambda-class shuttle. I guess the Rebels sabotaged it. So let me review what's happened so far. It's happened on both latter generations of original trilogy Rebel starfighters from the films (the A-wing and B-wing, including the B-wing in the Rebel Aces expansion), the Imperial TIE fighter from the original trilogy as well as Darth Vader's TIE fighter, and both my Lambda and TIE bomber (both of which now have replacements). I must wonder: If it happened to these ships, why didn't it happen to the TIE interceptor, the last remaining original trilogy Imperial starfighter? Why didn't it happen to Rebel starfighters introduced in the very first film (the X-wing and Y-wing)? And why has it not especially happened to the other original trilogy large ships (the Millennium Falcon, the YT-2400, and Slave I)? Has that happened to anyone yet? What about ships from the Rebels TV show or Rogue One, as well as "expanded universe" ships (both standard and Legends canon other than the B-wing from the Rebel Aces pack)? And what about Epic Play huge ships and any complementary standard play ships that go with them?

i swapped out all of the pegs on ships for magnets
including all the small pegs joined to the ships
makes it so much easier to transport and display
FBJ

i use 3mmx1.5mm disc magnets on mine.

Just drill a little bit into the base, insert magnet and glue in place. I then use another similar magnet on the stick. trim the top down to where the peg would normally sit and glue the other magnet on there.

I've had 1 magnet drop out so far (first one, didnt use enough glue) and one instance of the peg not beibng square (on of my ties "Lefty" is constantly banking left slightly) but all in all good results so far (done all 4 of my ties, my interceptor, tie bomber, a wing, b wing and e wing)

The B wing is easier to do that way rather than ball bearing and gins as you can just drill into the peg mounting point and the B wing will still spin and not flop forwards or anything silly like that.