Citadel Painting Handle - Will it hold metal miniatures?

[Brother Christopher]

I'm considering getting the Citadel Painting Handle for convenience and would like to ask people who actually have experience with it: is the thing strong enough to firmly hold the weight of pewter miniatures such as Vanguard Veterans or SM characters in Terminator armour? Or is it only good for plastic/resin?

[Arkhanist]

I've had a pewter lemartes in it recently who is pretty top heavy and it held him no problem. You do have to make sure the jaws have a firm grip on the base - the springs are pretty strong so you do need to wrestle it a bit to make sure the base is properly seated and not only halfway held.

[Brother Christopher]

Thank you for the fast response. This clears up my doubts. Lemartes-weight is about as heavy as the miniatures I have to paint are.

[Grotsmasha]

Side note, the new grippy arms can be unscrewed from the small one and attached to the large one too :tu: