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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 1927248" data-attributes="member: 2323">Well, as I said, it's fully possible that I'm just being too delicate with it. I've broken enough things over the years by applying too much pressure, that I went into this being very concerned about doing the same here.I'm sure I'm turning the drill the proper direction, so if slow and steady is the name of the game I'll just give it another try. Of course, I was going to do that anyway.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I'm beginning to think you may be right. I'm not sure my hobby store carries brass rods, but it's worth a look-see. But even so, I'll still have to drill the axe heads and the mini's hand to insert the rod, correct? Granted, that seems a whole lot easire than drilling down the length of that staff.Here's a kicker for you: the GW drill bits have nowhere on them that I can find any indication of the sizes. The set included several bits ranging from one the size of a thread on up. But no obvious indication of what they each are.I'm finding that out. [Shakes fist at Warhammer 40K friend.] He's like a drug-pusher: the first one's free, then see who comes back. He let me use his workbench and tools to paint my first mini until I found out that I liked it. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> Well, I'm going to say that my continued work in the conversion business is dependent on how this first one turns out, so I'll hold off on the vise for now. But out oif curiosity where did you buy such a vise? Is that something you picked up at Lowes or Home Depot or is it a hobby store item as well?That's at least partly why I was trying to work on the axes at least: so that I didn't just leave everything sit. I find that the longer I put off a project the more daunting it seems in my head and the less likely I am to want to pick it up or to enjoy it once I do. Since I'm determined to see this through to the end, I want it to be a fun and rewarding experience.I'm finding that out too. I've gotten loads of great ideas from this thread alone. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I believe it has. My friend mentioned the same problem to me when we were painting at his house. He had some pots with the new lid and some with the old and I must say the new design is a vast improvement. But even with the older dried paints, he would just add a little water, shake it up for half a minute and the paint would be reconstituted. I'm not sure what that did for the color/quality of the paint, but it worked well-enough for our use-at-the-gaming table minis.Thanks again, and if you think of any other pointers, please let me know.</blockquote>

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