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Dear Gildor

I have had the same problem with exactly the same figures (and also with M3 The Witch King mounted and with M28, the galloping horse of the old Rohan Riders). They all start to bend over after a while. I mostly try to solve this by supporting the figure one way or another.
For M260 for example I used a plastic tube protecting a paintbrush, cut it at the right length and placed it under the horse's front leg. Then I tried to cover it with some scenery stuff. It's not an elegant solution, it may not look well, but it's better than a bending horse...

For Smaug I may try one day to make it a flying dragon, with its tail in the air in stead of on the ground...

the idea of a support is cool but wouldn't there be another option than a plastic tube?

I agree you would need to add a support.

What about a small decor which the horse would need to jump ? Something like a Bush, dead broken tree, fallen wall...
I am thinking also of the M303 : Either the orc or the eagle support which after all is mithril stuff.

Last edited by Milo (Fri, Nov27 2020 8:01am)

actually the wings bend on "falling" upon them usually, there is no "weight" resting on the wings and they themselves are not very heavy "per sé". the breaking point really is the base of the tail, and the fact the stalagmitis is not tall enough thus lowering the gravity point of the whole structure.
I plan on elevating the stalagmitis bu adding some "stuff" to rebuild it. then making a thin hol far enough in the two jointing parts tail+torso and stuck a hard metal rod inside that would prevent it to bend at this point and thus maintain whole stability

but mine had fallen too many times to be repairable, so I bought a new one, and I don't have the courage to "repaint" it all over again...