If you have ever broken the ankle joint on a DML figure trying to put on boots, here is my solution to repairing the ankle joint.
1 carefully split the calf and remove it from the knee joint
2 hold the 2 halves together and take a 5/32" drill bit and dill out the hole as shown in the 1st pic
3 carefully drill out the end of the ankle with the 5/32 bit and insert a 1" section of plastic sprue or styrene rod into the ankle joint with proweld or other styrene glue, or if you are very carefull cyano.
4 make a disc of styrene and drill a 5/32" hole in the center and slide it over the 1" peg you made for the ankle.
5 lay the new ankle pin as we will now call it onto one half of the calf and slide the collar down as shown in pic 1.
6 carefully lift the ankle from the calf and glue the collar to the peg being carefull not to move the collar.
7 let the glue set completely
Pic1
Assembly
Now the new ankle peg is fully set(cured) lay it back into the calf half as shown in pic2.
Pic2
Then re-assemble the calf with the foot attached and caefully re-glue the calf seam clamp and alow the glue to set. Here is the leg re-assembled and clamped
Pic3
When the glue is set remove the clamp and now you have a figure with a fully function ankle joint again.Hope this is helpfull
DML Broken Ankle Repair
Return to “Computer Games, Modelling and Wargaming”
Jump to
- Pst!
- ↳ Announcements
- ↳ General
- ↳ Anything WWII!
- ↳ Introductions
- ↳ Photos
- ↳ Questions, Tips and Tricks
- ↳ Internet and links
- ↳ Books, films & other media
- ↳ Computer Games, Modelling and Wargaming
- ↳ WWII Airsoft
- ↳ World War One
- In your area ...
- ↳ UK reenactment and events
- ↳ What's on month by month
- ↳ USA and Canada reenactment and events
- ↳ European reenactment and events
- ↳ Non-English Speaking
- ↳ Русскоязычный Форум
- ↳ Реконструкция ВВ2 в СНГ и за рубежом
- ↳ Военная археология
- ↳ Музыка и кино
- ↳ Право и Закон
- ↳ Оружие и Боеприпасы
- ↳ Разговоры обо всем
- ↳ DEUTSCHSPRACHIGES FORUM
- ↳ WK2 REENACTMENT ALLGEMEIN
- ↳ ABZEICHEN, UNIFORMEN UND AUSRÜSTUNG
- ↳ WK2 BÜCHER, MUSIK UND FILME
- ↳ ALLGEMEINE WK2 GESCHICHTE
- ↳ PLAUDERECKE
- ↳ Rest of world reenactment and events
- ↳ Archive
- Stuff
- ↳ Uniforms and Insignia
- ↳ Paperwork
- ↳ Radio/signals
- ↳ Vehicles
- ↳ Medals and Awards
- ↳ Helmets and Helmet Restoration
- ↳ Weapons and Equipment
- ↳ Drill, Tactics, Fieldcraft
- ↳ Battlefield Architecture
- ↳ Marschmusik
- Units people and places
- ↳ Units - history and information
- ↳ Your Reenactment Group
- ↳ Re-enactment associations
- ↳ Female (civilian/military) Re-enacting
- ↳ Medics......
- ↳ Places of interest.
- ↳ Feldgendarmerie
- ↳ Third Reich Foreign volunteers
- ↳ Fallschirmjaeger
- ↳ Gebirgsjaeger
- ↳ Deutsches Afrikakorps
- ↳ Kriegsmarine
- ↳ Luftwaffe, HG, Flak, FD
- ↳ Civilian and Volkssturm
- ↳ Pionier
- Japanese
- ↳ Japanese Discussion
- ↳ Japanese Weapons and Equipment
- Italian
- ↳ Italian Discussion
- ↳ Italian Weapons and Equipment
- Finland
- ↳ Finnish Discussion
- ↳ Finnish Weapons and Equipment
- Hungarian/Bulgarian/Romanian
- ↳ Weapons, uniforms, equipment
- ↳ General discussion
- Flohmarkt
- ↳ For sale
- ↳ Wanted
- ↳ Shops
- ↳ Northern Militaria
- ↳ Militaria-Net
- ↳ Zeugmeisterei
- ↳ Patherfinder Distribution - tents