Repairing a lost sword is hard if you don’t have the missing plastic blade.. otherwise you just glue it back on.
Here is how to do it the proper way.
Add florist or brass wire. Brass wire is better for swords as it come straight.. and is much harder and won’t bend so easily. I have used florist wire here.
After a good half hour of filing the set Milliput while watching TV with a square sided needle file and filing the blade edge with a half round needle file I get a good blade.
I will use this method my Orcs too.. but I will set the putty on the wire before adding to the miniature. This lets me make several blades and pick the gnarliest of them.
Also I can make the blades from polymer clay and can cook them before attaching.
I will post later with a better picture of the completed blade. I was considering a war axe or mace.. but they weren’t issued in the movie.. but in LOTRSBG a hand weapon is a hand weapon.. so I could issue him a dagger and it would be just as effective.
The finished sword is narrower than this stage shown.
I hope you like this short article.
