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Well, I have looked into my bin, and It might be that I have to pull out a few grey knights models that were bad bad purchases (always looks better on the internet). They are completely intact.... except.... for their weapons.

Now, I am going to convert them into space-hulk terminators, the trick is, I still want to make them multi-taskeable, so I hope to magnetize them.

And the tricksy part: How can I restore thin metal weapons???? I have access to a soldering iron, im just not so sure that it will work so well...

My search-fu is also abysmal and came up with nothing.

I think pinning is probably the best solution. And then glue them with araldite (that stuff is like iron).

Another alternative might be to just replace the weapon shaft completely with a thin piece of metal or plastic.

I'm not sure about soldering... Last time I tried to solder a metal mini it went from completely solid, to one half of the model turning to liquid in about a nano second (like a small explosion). You might have better luck, but i doubt it would be very neat.

Don't use soldering iron on wargame figures. They melt really easily.

Drilling, pinning and Araldite is the way to do it.

If you want to replace Force Halberds use thin steel wire for the pole.

well, heres my problem, how can I drill a hole small enough to hold all the parts together?

Either a pin vice or a steady hand with a dremel tool set on low speed with an itty-bitty drill bit.

I hear people talk about using cut up paper clips for pinning, so give that a shot.

Best of luck.

Small paperclips are about 1/32" thick, that's the size pinvise bits you'll want to use.
You will get a lot better control using a pinvise for small pieces. Dremels are awesome, but they remove so much material so quickly, you can easily become one with your tool, it's a lot easier to remove material than to replace it.