Advice assembling humans and pinning wrists
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 1:47 am
I am curious about how many of you assemble human sized figures, particularly the wrists/weapons. Do you pin them every time you can?
These Darklands models have more naturally proportioned wrists and hands (ie. small). I'm a novice modeller and painter and am a little intimidated with the best approach. I've only assembled Ffion in metal. I managed to get a thin guitar string (like .5mm I think) in the wrist/hand holding her flute. Greenstuffing that tiny joint was difficult. I just received a metal Nuala and am looking at her thin wrists holding the big staff and sword, and am wondering how I'll manage to get those attached.
At what point to do just glue it and trust that will hold it? I assume all small bits like horns or weapons are best just glued on the smaller models without bothering to pin (I'm getting small figures in metal from now on).
Any tips for filling the tiny gaps effectively? I found it very hard to get a small enough amount of greenstuff on Ffion.
These Darklands models have more naturally proportioned wrists and hands (ie. small). I'm a novice modeller and painter and am a little intimidated with the best approach. I've only assembled Ffion in metal. I managed to get a thin guitar string (like .5mm I think) in the wrist/hand holding her flute. Greenstuffing that tiny joint was difficult. I just received a metal Nuala and am looking at her thin wrists holding the big staff and sword, and am wondering how I'll manage to get those attached.
At what point to do just glue it and trust that will hold it? I assume all small bits like horns or weapons are best just glued on the smaller models without bothering to pin (I'm getting small figures in metal from now on).
Any tips for filling the tiny gaps effectively? I found it very hard to get a small enough amount of greenstuff on Ffion.