How can i repair the canons on my B wing?
When painting i rested it on the canons as the peg was MIA. someone at work has then placed something on top of it (it was black, had it on a white plate in the middle of a table)
What can i use to replace them as all 3 have snapped off!!
Brass rod is probably the easiest. Or paperclips/pins. But you'll need a pin vice drill to do it.
Or just play without.
10 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:Brass rod is probably the easiest. Or paperclips/pins. But you'll need a pin vice drill to do it.
Or just play without.
i do have a pin vice so thats not an issue, just getting the right width lol. thinkin about it, i may be able to raid my old 40k bits box and see what i can find! (or just steal paperclips from work
I never picked this up, but I did look at it in-store once: Steam Punk Dust.
That's the one problem I've had with my ships is the B-wing cannons breaking off. I used some very small brads to replace mine. They look pretty gun-ish.
What I don't get is I have zero issues with A-Wings, X-Wings (both), Z-95s, and the like when it comes cannons breaking off...but them pesky B-Wings and K-Wings are snapping off all the time. Did they use a different plastic?
I haven't gotten around to fixing my broke B-Wings yet (but I gave them all rotating cockpits and folding wings... #priorities), I was considering a silicon mold of an unbroken B-Wing and then affixing the mold to the damaged wing after filling with resin to let it cure onto the model? I've made resin replicas of a few parts of ships before (Lancer-Class engine exhausts and nacelle caps for my NCC-72930 USS Shadowcaster LED conversion/modification) and they worked well...the parts were also A LOT larger... I'm just not sure if it's worth the effort...
Looking at it I may just leave the top ones alone. Too much to go wrong with drilling it out.!
Give me an excuse to buy more stuff though lol
I used watch pins to replace the guns. They sell packs of hundreds of them in different size for a few dollars on eBay.
The results are really good, nice enough that I may not paint them.
20 hours ago, drjkel said:I used watch pins to replace the guns. They sell packs of hundreds of them in different size for a few dollars on eBay.
The results are really good, nice enough that I may not paint them.
I was actually thinking of this the other day. do they come in different sizes/widths?
also are the ones you used thin enough to just have a small hone drilled in the "wings" and then glued in place or is a Green stuff cap needed on it?
3 hours ago, taulover55 said:I was actually thinking of this the other day. do they come in different sizes/widths?
also are the ones you used thin enough to just have a small hone drilled in the "wings" and then glued in place or is a Green stuff cap needed on it?
Those I bought are similar to these watch pins. They come in a lot of different lengths, but the width is the same. The Mist Hunter was just glued on, obviously, but for the B-wing, I just clipped the non-broken gun, then used a pin vise to drill from the top halfway, to keep the shape of the original gun, then drilled into the gun emplacement. What you see in the picture is just the result of drilling and gluing, nothing done to cover up the work.
10 minutes ago, drjkel said:Those I bought are similar to these watch pins. They come in a lot of different lengths, but the width is the same. The Mist Hunter was just glued on, obviously, but for the B-wing, I just clipped the non-broken gun, then used a pin vise to drill from the top halfway, to keep the shape of the original gun, then drilled into the gun emplacement. What you see in the picture is just the result of drilling and gluing, nothing done to cover up the work.
Awesome, will pick some up shortly then. Thankyou