...and you can't find it anywhere. Ugh!
I'm refurbishing the Aurora Creature. I built him 21 years ago, when I was dating someone that was taking up alot of my time. LOL, they didn't understand my love for styrene monsters. I didn't feel like I put my "all" into painting it. Anyway, I had not bothered to sand all the seams on his claws, so I made them very sharp the other night, and made the mistake of trying to stand him up, and he fell over and a claw snapped off and disappeared. I looked everywhere for it. It's gone.
I can't bear to look at him with a missing claw.
What should I did to remedy this? What's the best way to repair it, so it looks good again?
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Re: What to do when you break a claw off your Creature...
Simplest thing is to shape one from a little Aves Apoxie sculpt. It'll take about 10 seconds.BobbysMonsterModels wrote:...and you can't find it anywhere. Ugh!
I can't bear to look at him with a missing claw.
What should I did to remedy this? What's the best way to repair it, so it looks good again?
You can add a short pin for support (or even glue a short thread to the "finger" tip for the Aves to cling to while it cures) but it probably won't matter at Aurora scale.
The Aves will dry rock-hard overnight. Never fails.
Just a suggestion.
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Well, I don't have Aves, but I do have Milliput.
I guess I have to make sure it's nice and wet.
Ugh, a sculptor I am not.
I guess I have to make sure it's nice and wet.
Ugh, a sculptor I am not.
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Re: What to do when you break a claw off your Creature...
The claw is NOT gone. It just hasn't been found yet. Keep looking - it's there.
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Re: What to do when you break a claw off your Creature...
A piece of sprue cut and sanded to shape. The fact that it's also styrene makes it easy to glue.
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Re: What to do when you break a claw off your Creature...
Milliput will work fine you may want to drill a small hole and cut a small wire and glue it in like what Derek said ..let it harden cut it to length then milliliput it …. You can do it
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Re: What to do when you break a claw off your Creature...
Great idea!LOBOREX wrote:A piece of sprue cut and sanded to shape. The fact that it's also styrene makes it easy to glue.
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