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I just made this sword arm from 3 other sword arms. I don't see a long, untroubled future for it. What's the most fragile model in your army?

My money is on my Necron Ghost Ark... just because its a pretty long vehicle connected with a single "spine"

Thats why both my Ghost Arks have a wooden rod going down that "spine" for support.

My basic Necron Warriors fall victim to my kids most often. The spot at the waist where the legs meet the torso snaps like a twig with extremely little effort.

luckily you can fix that without much visual residue

So far it's been my fine cast Vulcan and FC techmarine. I've lost the pilot light on vulcans flamer, and his banner has broken 6 times so far.

Warp smith and Heldrake

And this is why I pin everything I can

Probably my finecast commissar. His sword is way too bendy.

My Necron warriors have broken in the past if you breath on them to hard but they haven't nearly been the most fragile. I'd say the most annoying models I've worked with so far is the finecast Overlord and his staff which is so flimsy that I just decided to cut it off at the hands and pin them. Even worse then that is the freakin' Wraiths and their whipcoils.. just picking them up scares me sometimes. Maybe it's just me but I also find that the Wraiths can tip over fairly easy which is another thing I'm worried about breaking the whipcoils.

Easterling Pikemen.

The centerpiece model of course.



The sword, horns, wrists, and ankle I all expect to break at least once. All of them should be easy to fix except for the sword, if that breaks I'll have no choice but to hunt down a replacement bit.

same here - centrepiece model: Forgeworld Avatar with spear. He disintegrated in transit to Games Day last year, made it though the day this year, but the spear fall to pieces on the way home - it's got too many join points and is too thin to drill and pin!

Halberds on my GKs.

Sure, those multiple "sections" on the haft look cool - but they weaken it like nothing else. I've had 9 of those b^^tards break in the last year - just in storage. The metals were no better for this.

As for the FW Avatar's spear. A mate of mine replaced the entire shaft of it with brass rod and fitted the main parts back onto it.

I would have to go with my Imperial Fists finecast tech marine- the servoharness arms break constantly.

My old metal Lictor that is my Deathleaper. The huge talons keep breaking their glue. It doesn't help that most people pick him up by them (even me sometimes when I brain fart) and his base is magnetized to my tray... So extra resistance when he's picked up.

The Finecast Zoanthrope. I have three of them, and the tiny piece of resin holding them to the base isn't up to the job.

This is another reason why I collect space marines. My most fragile model would have to be the antenna on a bike

These girls. I really should have pinned their arms even thought everything is plastic. Right now they are just flat ends glued together and with their length it doesn't take much to produce enough torque to cleanly break that weak of a superglue bond.

Without shadow of doubt my old metal VC Black Knights/Mounted Wights - they were prone to the arms breaking off, and the idea of transporting them without bringing along some emergency superglue was laughable. Pretty sure my Black Coach collapsed like a clown car on more than a few occasions as well!

I've converted a squad of Marines on Chaos knight horses for counts-as bikers. They're carrying really thin, fragile gun halberds which are a bugger fior breaking in transit. Even Battlefoam hasn't saved them so far.

The heavy stubber on one of my Chimeras. That thing has been reglued so many times it looks like a bad weld job where it's glued to the turret.

I have a chaos Terminator Scorcerer- his staff arm has to be reglued before every game (and sometimes more than once)

Dark Eldar. Every kind of DE, and most importantly Kabalite Warriors and *shudder* Wyches. I have so many of them and it's rare that at least a few aren't broken at the same time, mostly since I don't have a lot of time to repair them.

This little model:

His sword is glued on to the arm with just enough glue to hold it in place. If any one model in my army is gonna break and cause me headaches its this one.

The Banshee Swarm on my Mortis Engine. I've had to re-glue all 3 of them a good 5 times each... and one of them was even pinned on! Haven't had any major problems with my Tau even though the Crisis Suits are supposed to be awful. I've never had one break on me. *knock on every piece of wood in my house

C'tan Nightbringer...not the Finecast one...

I'm terrified to touch it.

ugh obnoxious image size here's a smaller one:



This guy: Sloppy Joe. One of his arms breaks off every time I put him in my case.

Pentinent engines feet, finecast wracks, those a re what i have most trouble with

For my Imperial Guard, it is the metal Marbo model. I really should pin it.

For my Black Templar, it would be the emperor's champion model. Again it needs pinning. Sword will still be fragile though.

Tyranid Zoanthropes, both metal and finecast varieties. Massive weight overtop of a tiny connection point.

Also, Tau crisis suit ankles. They break if you look at them wrong.