...or better to say.....GETTING THE BLOODY THINGS TO STAND UP FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME!!!
The poxy pegs virtually never fit in the holes on the bases provided. Either the plastic is so brittle it snaps with drilling and pinning, the legs are way too thin anyway Glueing??? The surface areas are too small to take the glue and the plastic doesn´t bond anyway.
So after bashing several of them with an axe...I thought of this
Here´s one of the sly little b****rs, the look in it´s eyes suggest, "HA!, you´ll never stick me down"
But no! My torture kit sorry! tool kit comes out.
Here, a candle, bit of a wine cork, pre-made base and some very thin steel wire.
Cut off a length of wire , about 4cms long and stick it in the cork, the cork now becomes a handle. Heat up the wire and just hold it against one of the nags legs that would have ground contact anyway. This must be done carefully as not to melt the leg into a disfigured clumpfoot (hoof) and as the plastic and pin cool down both have to be held firmly without movement so as not to bend the leg from it´s original position.
The "rut" formed on the beasties leg can now be filled with whatever, wood glue, green stuff etc. A hole is then made with a needle in the appropiate place on the base .........
The pin on the horses leg is now cut to length, stuck in the hole and then any other ground contacting hooves stuck with high impact adhesive.
Ok they are not the most wonderfull nags available, but they still have thier uses.