My brother got me a Ted figure knowing I love the movie(s) and the new TV show, he had it sent to my home and it seems during transit that the head/neck joint piece broke in two.
Is there anything I can do, or alternatives to these? Thank you!
My brother got me a Ted figure knowing I love the movie(s) and the new TV show, he had it sent to my home and it seems during transit that the head/neck joint piece broke in two.
Is there anything I can do, or alternatives to these? Thank you!
It looks like there’s a long piece that connected two balls that go into sockets on either end. If that’s correct, and you want to repair the long piece so it doesn’t break again, you want to pin it. That means drilling into both sides of the break and putting something stronger to act as a bridge through both holes. There are bunches of tutorials on how to do it like this one https://spikeybits.com/2020/04/this-is-how-to-pin-metal-miniatures-the-right-way.html (just an example, you can probably find better ones)
This is basically it, but I’d like to add something. Don’t bother drilling through the long piece. Instead, find a peg of equal diameter to the one that broke, cut it to size (+some that will go in the balls) cut off the old peg, drill holes in both balls, and superglue in the new peg.
You can get brass rods in scale modeling hobby stores and/or online and they’ll be crazy strong. Alternatively you can get plastic rods in a variety of diameters.