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Hey everyone,

with the rise of the new Chaos Marines Chain Axes are becoming more popular (Termies or converting 'zerkers from vanilla CSM). Has anyone tried the Forgeworld Chain Axes? I was afraid that attaching them to the modell would be quite hard (cutting the handle and only haveing a small surface for the glue)

Or are there any other sources of Chain Axes?

Thanks in advance

The forge world ones are possible to be used with pinning. Ive had no issues pinning them with paperclip width pins.

Forgeworlds chainaxes, you have to either pin with a thin paperclip into the two axeshaft pieces, or drill into the hand to insert the axeshaft a bit.

If you try to just cut the axe in half and glue the pieces to either side of the hand they will break off constantly.

There's loads of 3rd party chain axes. I know Anvil and Kromlech does them.
http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/The-Armoury/Chain-Axes
http://bitsofwar.com/home/412-legionary-chain-axes.html
And these guys
https://www.conversionworld.de/index.php?pageId=suche&language=en&aktuellerTag=Axes&tag1=&tag2=&tag3=Melee%20Weapons&kategorie=Bitz%20by%20Type


Many come with hands attached, which makes things less fiddly, but lacks the customization of the FW style handless axes where you can easily chose how high up on the handle the model would be gripping the axe.

A bit costly unfortunately, but you also have lots of interesting chain axe designs on Shapeways. Like these

https://www.shapeways.com/product/L93WYBGS2/28mm-chain-axe-with-evil-hand-right?optionId=63118157&li=marketplace

https://www.shapeways.com/product/EZZJLKKWC/rotoaxe-galeocerda?optionId=70483243&li=marketplace

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
The forge world ones are possible to be used with pinning. Ive had no issues pinning them with paperclip width pins.

Thank you! Nice to know that the shafts are thick enough to pin them. I figured they'd be to thin.


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 Zywus wrote:
Forgeworlds chainaxes, you have to either pin with a thin paperclip into the two axeshaft pieces, or drill into the hand to insert the axeshaft a bit.

If you try to just cut the axe in half and glue the pieces to either side of the hand they will break off constantly.

There's loads of 3rd party chain axes. I know Anvil and Kromlech does them.
http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/The-Armoury/Chain-Axes
http://bitsofwar.com/home/412-legionary-chain-axes.html
And these guys
https://www.conversionworld.de/index.php?pageId=suche&language=en&aktuellerTag=Axes&tag1=&tag2=&tag3=Melee%20Weapons&kategorie=Bitz%20by%20Type


Many come with hands attached, which makes things less fiddly, but lacks the customization of the FW style handless axes where you can easily chose how high up on the handle the model would be gripping the axe.

A bit costly unfortunately, but you also have lots of interesting chain axe designs on Shapeways. Like these

https://www.shapeways.com/product/L93WYBGS2/28mm-chain-axe-with-evil-hand-right?optionId=63118157&li=marketplace

https://www.shapeways.com/product/EZZJLKKWC/rotoaxe-galeocerda?optionId=70483243&li=marketplace

Thank you, too! I'll look into those as well

Victoria Miniatures, great stuff.