As has been said before, The legion post clone wars is the 1st time ffg has stepped into the world of hard plastic mini's, and B1's were their 1st attempt at sprues with said hard plastics.
They are a bit complex, but still very acceptable if you look back on some of the bigger companies early days. It should improve as they get more experience with them.
Edited by RalgonI agree, now that all new Legion miniatures are on sprues, there are far too many pieces!
I'm not talking about customization options -- having one head with a face and a second head with a helmet are fine. But having the B1 heads and Mandalorian Resistance heads as two pieces is totally pointless! Also, why is the torso of the Droideka 2 pieces in deployed mode whereas it's only 1 piece in wheel mode?
I imagine that there's some production reason why, but I'd wager that even the people who designed the models and sprues are annoyed by them when they have to assemble the minis.
It's just you. All the new figures have few parts.
11 hours ago, buckero0 said:
I am going to rig up some clips I have and allow for drying overnight. I tried putty and it slumped and I tried a stand and it slumped but a clip that holds it in place should work.
the other thought is to only glue the engine to the ball joint and then glue the STAP to the engine.
For the B1s on the STAPs I simply attached the arms first then once the glue set for a moment positioned the legs. They didn’t give me a lot of trouble but I certain,y understand why they could.
42 minutes ago, smickletz said:For the B1s on the STAPs I simply attached the arms first then once the glue set for a moment positioned the legs. They didn’t give me a lot of trouble but I certain,y understand why they could.
Which this is another of the big benefits of hard plastic: Since plastic glue holds while drying, and doesn't dry super hard very quickly, it allows for this sort of re-positioning while the glue is drying as opposed to super glue.
14 hours ago, smickletz said:For the B1s on the STAPs I simply attached the arms first then once the glue set for a moment positioned the legs. They didn’t give me a lot of trouble but I certain,y understand why they could.
My strategy was to glue the legs to the torso and use the foot slots on the STAP (without glue) to ensure they dried in the correct position. Then I glued one arm to the torso, and, before it set, put a drop of glue on the feet and the handon the controls that corresponds to the arm , then put the feet in place and pivoted the B1 towards the STAP till the arm could make contact with the glue on the hand, then carefully made adjustments as necessary. For the models with both hands on the controls I glued the second arm separately, but before the other glue had dried so I could make adjustments if needed. I also found that the STAP can balance face down using the guns to hold it upright, which helped to hold the B1 in the correct position while it dried.