So i'm doing more figures but now that i am getting close to finishing a batch i hit a stump. how do i get them to stand some of them are in running, walking poses how can i go about standing them in dios? run a wire to them or peg one foot to the base of the dio any help and or pictures of how you guys do it would be fantastic?

You got it!
Take your pin vice or electric drill and a 1/32 or smaller bit and run a hole up the leg at the heel. Insert an aluminum or brass rod and secure with super glue. Drill a corresponding hole in the base where you want you figure and affix with super glue.

Yep, peg them. Its the easiest way to get those standing figures to stay put, without something noticable holding them.

Cool thanks guys

In addition I think you will find it easier to paint if you drill a hole in the figure and white glue a toothpick or some other peg as a handle. That way you can handle the figure without touching the figure. I end up using the same hole to mount the figure so with a little pre-planning you can accomplish two missions with one hole.

My favorite pin is an unfolded paper clip. Cheap...

Actually, I had another thought. A simple paper clip pin works well for 1/35 plastics or resin, but in case anyone was thinking of a more substantial figure:

The diorama below is comprised mostly of 54mm metal figures. The topography under the groundwork is styrofoam. Clearly, that was going to be insufficient to hold the heavy figures in place. So I pre-planned the location of each one, drilled corresponding holes through the styrofoam, and put a piece of wood dowel in each hole, securing it to the plywood base with wood glue. Then I drilled pin-holes into the dowels. Taking this one step further (because I still had to add the groundwork), I put brass tubes into each hole. After building up the groundwork, it was easy to locate each tube. The brass rod fitting neatly into the tube was inserted into a heel on each figure.

Hope that helps someone~

Again i thank you for the information it sure will be helpful. I read on here that doing figures is a hobby all in it self and i will say it too and i an enjoying doing the figures. Maybe at another point i will do a larger dio using figures and vehicles but right now i think i am just going to do small dios with figures and.....stuff

Hey Jantkowiak

Is that dio the Sunken Road at Antietam or just one of the many scenes repeated over and over again during the war?

Good eye, Alan. Here's the paragraph that went with the display:

"The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862. After three and a half hours of intense fighting (and a staggering estimate of 12,600 casualties), the Federal assault on General Lee’s army shifted from the north - at the West Woods, the Cornfield, and Dunker Church - to the center, here at the Sunken Road. In the minutes before the fresh Union troops began their attack, Colonel John B. Gordon ordered his 6th Alabama Regiment to cease their hasty relocation of a fence from one side of the road to the other and take cover in the natural trench. They were to stay hidden until the Union lines were almost upon them. Gordon’s order to 'Fire!' would unleash a deafening fusillade causing, by some estimates, 450 Union casualties in the first five minutes. So began the second wave of losses on 'America’s Bloodiest Day' - and the hour was not yet 9:30 a.m."

John Antkowiak
Manassas, VA

Nice ACW dio John. I could tell that it was some place I knew the moment I saw it but didnt know quite what. I cannot believe Gordon was able to keep going after hit four or five times.

Matt

WOOHOO!! My ACW history teacher would be proud!!