Difficult subassemblies

[Marshal Vespasian]

So I came across this problem while prepping my first ETL entry:

How do you prepare difficult things for subassembly? In this case very thin capes?

I got 2 Exalted Sorceror cloaks to go with my terminators as capes, but they are incredibly thin. Up until now I had only used the Chaos Lord cape for terminators, which are not a problem to put a pin inside, but for these thin ones I am kind of at a loss and I only want to glue them to the model after I have them painted.

Normally I paint arms and Backpacks as subassemblies and just drill a hole, glue in a piece of paper clip and thats that. I can use it to pin it to the finished model later and during painting I can press it to a cork. But these thin things I cant drill in or only in places that will be seen. I thought about attaching them to a cork or stick or something with poster putty but that doesnt stick that well I feel and might fall off. If push comes to shove I can just paint them wearing gloves (I do that anyways because of the airbrush) and varnish as soon as they are done and put them aside then.

[Rik Lightstar]

If I was wedded to the idea of painting it separately then I'd glue it at the same contact point as it will use later to a piece of old sprue and use superglue sparingly to do so.

 

Once it's painted you should be able to just snap the join and glue it in the final position.

 

Rik

[MaliGn]

Glue the cloak to the backpack and then use your normal technique - it's what I did when I painted one of those backpacks.