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Hi guys,

I am currently building a crisis suit and was wondering if anyone had any ideas or tried and tested fixes. My idea is to use a flying stand stick to connect the body to the base, but I think it may look a bit naff. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Either pray and hope, be really careful with them, or dont glue the ankles into the feet, and then seperate the ankles and the base when theyre being stored, as this is when they tend to break in my experience. Failing that some people use magnets apparently but ive never tried it myself

Not gluing in the ankle balls is the best way to go. I have had SOME luck pinning from the leg down though the ankle, and then into the base. This makes the feet decorative and structurally insignificant. Not much luck though.

The subtle way is to pin through the ankle joint and hide the pin behind the foot. the other handy way is to convert the models so they are kneeling/crouching so you're not relying on the ankle joint at all. I've done both of these things and use the flying stand as well and they are all effective.

The tau players I know use a brass rod to hold theirs up. It goes into the model and into the base and is just the right height to allow the suit to appear "standing" without putting any stress on the ankle joints.

The suits already have mounting holes for flying stands anyway, so that's where they mounted the rods.

I have repaired sooooo many of those things. Just put it on a flight stand, don't glue it, don't glue the feet on, and don't drop it and you should be good. Broadsides are a little different. Pin the feet as well as use a flight stand.