Pin the tail on the Primus

[cheirisophus]

Could someone give me advice on how to attach the "manta ray" tail piece to the rear of the Centauri Primus? The main body of the ship has a nice hole cast into the rear, between the engine thrusters, but the tail piece is perfectly smooth and flat, with nothing to inset into the hole on the body! I would hate to just paste it on with a ton of super glue gel. This is a B5 Wars model, by the way, in case Mongoose revised the casting.

 

[Calistan]

I'm going to guess the hull didn't look like this:

I think the tail may have broken off.

 

[emperorpenguin]

I don't think so, I understand the original AOG version had a detachable tail, which is what this guy got

sorry, no idea, mine have the tail cast as part of it too

 

[vitalis6969]

Pin it.

Drill a hole in the tail with a pin vice, then glue a piece of wire into the hole. Drill a matching hole in the hull of the ship. Put on tail with wire placed into the hole in the ship hull and glue. Should hold just fine.

-V

 

[Silvereye]

I have assembled an AoG Primus previously. The hull section pictured by Calistan came in three pieces. Left and right side of the hull and the tail piece. If memory serves correctly, there should be a small hole formed in the rear of the hull for the tail to fit into once the two pieces of hull are glued together.

If there is no hole, I would agree with vitalis6969's suggestion of drilling and pinning.

 

[Chernobyl]

yeah, pinning is a skill needed by anyone working with larger models.
took me a while to pick up but its not so scary now.

Chern

 

[vitalis6969]

Yeah, I pin EVERY metal mini that I have if it comes in multi pieces. Saves them coming apart during travel...

-V

 

[thehod]

Pinning works, just ask my Adira and Victory

 

[Da Boss]

Am lazy - trust in superglue and detachable stands with no stuff on the bottom of ships to cause problems - gives me more stuff for conversion.........

 

[Shadow Queen]

I pin with a small bit of greenstuff adds to the strength to the joint

 

[masakari]

I have an AoG Primus. The tail doesn't fit into a hole exactly- it's actually a triangular notch in the rear of the ship. The challenge in pinning it is that the pinhole would be in the center of the ship, where the two hull halves are joined. Very difficult to drill, although you might file the two halves with a rat tail before joining them (just make sure you don't create too large a hole. My solution was to file the tail to an exact match with the notch and just glue it. No problems after three years and two cross-country moves.