Any help/advice please?
Sat 2011/10/22 00:57 JST
Bought Figma: Kirino not too long ago and already she has been injured on her shoulder joint. The little plastic peg that sticks into her arm is hanging by a thread, anyone have any advice on how to fix this? Types of glue, replacement parts on the net etc? Any help would be greatly appreciated, she is my very first.
Thanks!
I would use blu-tack to reattach the arm. Super glue would work as well.
Do Figmas come with extra joints like Nendo heads do ? I think its the same joint ......hum I have never seen a Figmas so its hard to say .....
No, they don't. Just the face without the joint... ._.
pull of the nip and fill the inside of the arm with hot glue and glue it to the joint. that's what i did with rin and now i just can't bend her arm backward and i have to be more careful.
I am just saying now and not to be rude to anyone else but dont do anything to it. Contact Gsc here: http://cheerful-japan-global.ecq.sc/contacts and ask for a new body to figma kirino they should email back within 3 days asking for your adress to send you the part. Its free.
Does it matter where I bought it from or where I live?
Nope but state that you got it with a defective arm joint and need a new body. they do not work on saturday or sunday and they should email you asking for your adress. Again every things free.
Just sent a message, stating I bought it with a broken arm joint. Hope it works out. Thank you very much for your help!
Did you get an e-mail back yet, I got one
Yes I did, just asking for some details and a picture! Hope they can send the parts. Thank you very much for the advice, glad I contacted them before gluing anything.
Thank you for replies, think I'm going to try super glue on the nip, wasn't sure if it would damage the plastic but suppose its damaged anyway! If it doesn't stick ill just glue the whole arm on. Aww well, ill take better care in future, thanks again!
DO NOT USE SUPERGLUE OR HOT GLUE I cannot stress this enough. You will cause your figma joint to lock up and won't be able to pose it in any other position ever again. I would follow mikeg's advice and wait for goodsmile to get back to you about getting a new Kirino body, as the shoulder joints are unique to the figma and are difficult to get out of the body to replace (unless it's figma Mirai, who for some reason her shoulder joints seem to pop out without any hesitation >.>)
this happened to me as well, what i did to fix it was that i swapped that joint with a bootleg figma that i had, now she is able to move her arm again ^^
lol seems that bootlegs have some kinda use...