I was taking some photos of some of my new figures — including an epic figma — with Kagamiku — but in the middle of doing so, something tragic happened. ;A;
Poor Kagamiku's arm got broken! ;A;
For some stupid turn of events, I was trying to pose Kagamiku and suddenly, I didn’t notice that I was slightly twisting her arm in the wrong direction and her shoulder joint snapped off. It wasn’t a pretty sound and sight. I felt so bad I stopped taking the photos I was supposed to take and kept Kagamiku in her box again.
Showing her broken shoulder joint
I am seriously unsure of how to repair her — my instincts tell me superglue/mighty bond/those strong glue things that stick anything together should help — but I’m unsure if it would still be the same with Kagamiku afterwards… TAT;
Kagamin's arm with the other bit of shoulder joint stuck inside
From what I read in Danny Choo’s blog — there are some replacement parts for figma over at Amazon Japan, but so far, I’ve only seen arms for Saber TAT; and in his blog about repairing his Kagamin’s twintails — seems like he had some DIY with a small screwdriver… I might attempt to do that to get the small bit out of Kagamiku’s arm so I can stick the joint back together properly — but then again, I’m not sure I can get her arm back to the joint normally if I did that.
I’m really out of ideas — any help would be much appreciated! TAT;
SAME HERE I PAYED £100 FOR MY HARUHI SUZUMIYA FIGURE AND IN THE SECHOND DAY THE RIGHT ARM’S JOINT SNAPPED OFF! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO =(
You paid £100 for a figma? That’s overkill O_o;
Well, if you’re still interested to know… I was able to repair my Kagamiku figma… I posted it here: http://tangerinetango.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/kagamikus-arm-operation/
£100 for a figma… That is even more than what I have paid for my ALTER 1/7 Fate T Harlaown figure… o_o;;
Not sure how useful this is to you, but I can show you this method I found from a forum recently (you need some spare joints that can be bought online, a drill, and some superglue though):
http://quentinlau.blogspot.com/2010/02/figma-repair-2.html