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Hi there I recently picked up some FW Alpha Legion Terminators, but a couple of the ax handles broke off. What's the best way to fix these? My assumption would be to possibly drill a hole in the hand and handle to try and pin them. Though it might be too small to accomplish this. Is the next option just to glue it together with some loctite and hope for the best?

I would probably replace them with metal rod entirely. They will always be in danger of breaking off.

A pin vise drill and some paperclip should work fine for pinning something like that. I've pinned some incredibly thin pieces this way. Use a pinch grip with your finger and thumb to both hold the piece and centre the drill bit, then rotate the drill manually with your main hand, rather than using the spring pull down action and you shouldn't have any dramas.

^ This. I've demonstrated the "pinch" grip for control of where the bit goes, and some other gaming friends have now realised that what I did many years ago is no longer "magic".

(I pinned a metal spear shaft to a hand - the spear was maybe 1.2mm wide - with a small length of paperclip wire.

As the little 900 year old green guy used to say ... "Control, you must learn control."

(Going WAAAAAYYYYY off topic...)

 chromedog wrote:
As the little 900 year old green guy used to say ... "Control, you must learn control."

[Luke consults the WEG rulbook] "But the Skywalker bloodline STARTS with Control, I need to learn Sense and Alter!"