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So I bought my Seamus box set awhile ago and I am finally getting around to putting it together, but I am having a lot of trouble assembling some of the models. Most specifically the one Rotten Belle where I have to balance the parisol on the end of her stick. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do about that? Any help would be vastly appreciated.

I also would mind suggestions on how to play them or what I should buy to expand either but assembly help is my primary concern.

Pinning is probably the best answer, and for playing them, they're very tough for their points, but not very strong: in the starter box, you'll mostly be using Lure to pull enemies in for seamus and sybelle to kill, or occasionally luring seamus for a hit & run maneuver.

Some good things to consider getting to go along with Seamus are:

Dead Rider
Grave Spirit
Molly
Seamus Avatar
Jack Daw

Seamus is easy, yet tough, to play. His crew tends to fail miserably if it must spread out in any way, so some Strategies can be very, very difficult for him.

So, what he has to work with:
Belles are awesome. They can reliably get their lure spell off, can sometimes do some damage, and are not the easiest model to kill for their low cost. Use them to pull models out of position, or pull back models of yours that are in a bad spot.

Sybelle is another awesome model as she can actually do some real damage. The combo that is reliable is to companion your belles with sybelle, lure a model into range of sybelle, and then flurry. Sybelle can also use Call Belle from time to time, but it isn't the easiest cast.

Seamus, for all of his seeming awesomeness, is no where near invincible nor very good a killing. His best bet is to go avatar ASAP.

Seamus Avatar is full of awesome. He wrecks crews due to his insane Anathema terrifying ability that NO model can ignore (plus he makes EVERYTHING of yours on the table terrifying as well for extra fun against the living). He is also wicked, which is key. Get him in the middle of a lot of models, scare the crap out of them (terrifying -> 17 check), and then hit them for damage as they try to run due to wicked. If there are bodies around, throw them a stuff.

Dead Rider is good, and nearly an auto-include for seamus at 30+ points.

Jack Daw is nothing more than the biggest and best tarpit/headache model your opponent will have to face. He is VERY, VERY hard to kill (only magical damage or focused strikes even hit him), and if something does get through, just discard a card and he ignores it. His no cheating aura is really nasty too... coupled with Seamus Avatar terrifying... you'll just chase stuff to the edge of the table or beat them to death.

Grave Spirit is a good totem just to give Sybelle armor, or Dead Rider armor.

Molly, while terrible leading crews on her own, is a fantastic support unit and makes your belles faster and more effective. She can re-summon belles and sybelle much, much easier than Seamus. She can also summon the necrotic machine. And if someone has an awesome spell, she can copy it (friend or foe). She is not easy to learn though.

Hope that helps a little. A great resource is http://pullmyfinger.wikispaces.com/. I suggest going their for further ideas!!

I should note that models that target WP will have a field day with Seamus Avatar. Increasing his very useful terrifying decreases his WP to near auto-fail against everything levels. Pandora loves this

Just to throw in my 2 pence for assembly - for mine, I drilled the hole in the parasol itself as deep as I dared to get a good 6mm+ of the shaft in it. Works pretty well at keeping it in place - at least, it hasn't broken yet!

Ben

I replaced mine with a brass rod, much more stable and less likely to bend.

I used epoxy with a 5 min set and gi e it about 3 before applying. Afterwards I propped it in a position so it would cure correctly.

Another easy addition to Seamus are Punk zombies. For 5 SS they deliver a paired cb7 strike and can trigger rot on crows for a pos dmg flip.

Another great companion to the Belle's is a Crooked Man. Great fun to lay down a Shafted marker then Lure someone into it. Shafted offers great board control too. Bette Noir is a fun addition too. not terribly hard to bump off but if you have the right card, almost impossible for the opponent to keep her from coming back.