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With most minis, usually the most difficult pieces to glue are the two handed weapons. I mainly assemble 40k but really this applies to all.

Most minis I'm referring to have an arm holding the rifle and another arm holding it from the handguard. The off hand is usually with with the off arm or molded to the rifle. This is difficult to align as you have two sockets and the off wrist to connect.

The best way I've find is to glue the off arm to it socket, then quickly glue the wrist if it doesn't have a hand, and glue the rifle arm to the socket and wrist and align them from there.

I'm curious what are some other methods others has done.

For older kits where they don't align that precisely, I tend to do it the other way round - stick the rifle arm to the shoulder first, so the gun is pointing where you want it to, then put the supporting arm on afterwards.

Newer kits, new EC Noise Marines for instance, fit together very precisely. These guys have an asymmetric lug in the wrist joint that orients the arm correctly. I stuck these together before attaching to the model.

I rather like poly cement for this role. Slather it on the joints, and you usually get a few seconds to get all the bits on there and angle corrected before it all hardens up again.

I have no advice but I feel the pain, it’s a nightmare. Bought the forgeworld noisemarines for 30k and it was the most frustrating thing Ive ever done

Crispy78 wrote:For older kits where they don't align that precisely, I tend to do it the other way round - stick the rifle arm to the shoulder first, so the gun is pointing where you want it to, then put the supporting arm on afterwards.

Newer kits, new EC Noise Marines for instance, fit together very precisely. These guys have an asymmetric lug in the wrist joint that orients the arm correctly. I stuck these together before attaching to the model.

The newer kits are great for that sort of thing. I recently glued the new Swooping Hawks and it went smoothly. The new warp spiders on the other hand, that was tough, I actually had to do the rifle arm fir for that method but sticking that third arm between while making sure the pipe and off hand was good was a challenge.

Flinty wrote:I rather like poly cement for this role. Slather it on the joints, and you usually get a few seconds to get all the bits on there and angle corrected before it all hardens up again.

I haven't use poly cement, but that does sound easy, even tho I am not a fan of cement.

Pins, or better yet magnets, make the whole thing a lot easier.