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I'm reaching out to the dakka modeling commiunity for some guidance on how to repair as one of these fell into my lap, so to speak. Easy enough to re-assemble, glue and all that, but a model so big, grand and so pricey, deserves extra love.

It's assembled (well, it was built) and painted, but has many loose pieces. Shoulder pads, head cover, Missile pod, grieves, etc.

Majorly of course, is the torso to the hips. I want to really secure the torso to the hips in legs, but still have it able to detach for transport and storage.There's that nickel sized circular depression in the hips and the male/joint in the torso.
a. REM? Like a really strong, circular/disk REM? (I like KJ magnets for my REM 40k needs).
b. Pin or pins? Will one or two do? a tri-point? What to use?




Then there's the feet. Who ever assembled it in the first place has the 'cleats' pointed down, so the feet do not 'stand' flat.





I'm reluctant to snap them off and start over. It makes sense to give this top-heavy models a base, or even two foot bases (allowing easier placement around terrain on a battle field), to give it stability, so I'm casting a net wide for input on that, too.


Questions:
1. Should I use acetone/nail polish remover on the old glue joints? Is seems like an obvious yes, but heck, I dunno as it'll effect FW resin.
2. If I decide to pin or screw in a base for the feet, is there anything to FW resin about drilling into the feet I should watch out for?

Peeps,
Thank you very much.

I started viewing youtube vids on these, Purple Power, Super Clean, etc. I will try some on a cloth, to less essential areas. And then once cleaned of old glue, then I'll start figuring the pinning/bolt suggestions. So, it might be a bit, but I'll bring this thread back once that stage is complete.

Be safe out there.

 Bellerophon wrote:
However that Reaver does not look like much care went into the assembly process, so it's probably likely that the original owner did just slap superglue on. Why on earth anybody would assemble it with the toes pointing down like that unless they were modelling it stepping on and crushing something, I have no idea. Similarly the angle that the arms are mounted at looks odd. I hope you can successfully break those joints and do it justice. If you can't break them without doing more damage to the titan itself, then I think the best thing you can do is make it a base, or bases for each foot, and either have it crushing something, or just standing on a bit of a mound just so that there's a logical reason for the toes being posed that way.

These statements exactly echo my thoughts.

Dual foot bases with a little bit of terrain or ruins build up, using Masonite as the platform.

Just examining the parts, taking them in and out of its box, has the gun mounts breaking (at the 'pipe/conduit' sections). I might be looking at a full dis-assembly, except for the toes.