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Oh the tragedy. I just finished painting this model yesterday. My first model for which I tried to minimize the use of dry brushing. When I finally ended up satisfied with the result, I knocked it off the table by accident, while cleaning up my brushes. The model hit the ground head first. The sword broke. I barely kept my cool (let's say the pandemic is getting at me). I quickly set about trying to fix it, being already overwhelmed with despair and the fatalistic idea that I just ruined beyond repair this model.
So, here is the final result. What do you think of it ? Do you have any suggestions to make sure the sword doesn't break easily again. Do you think the damage can be hid in a better way ? I'm all hears.

Tends to be the problem with the newer plastics from GW. They are so fine that they're easily broken and not easily fixed.

I think your repair job looks fine and I was none the wiser until you pointed it out. Super glue is your best pal in this case.

Thx for the advice !

I agree with the previous comments. If you hadn't said something, I wouldn't have known. Nice paint on it as well! Nice to see another spiritseer showing up in the game!

edwardmyst wrote:
I agree with the previous comments. If you hadn't said something, I wouldn't have known. Nice paint on it as well! Nice to see another spiritseer showing up in the game!

Well thank you. It's one of the reason why I was so upset when it broke, lol.

I would recommend learning how to pin fragile parts or joins. This will be big help in reinforcing the area and avoid breakages. Not so bad on plastics but I pin pretty much every join I can with resin models.

Yes, indeed. However, I doubt I could have pinned the blade of the sword (it was broken at the base, just before the guard of the sword). Luckily, the gemstones of the blade were unbroken.

Yeah man I cant even see any damage. Looks top notch to me!