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As soon as I saw the Warhammer aka Tommahawk all I could think was I HAVE TO HAVE THAT. Now all i need is an 1/60 Archer, Griphen, Shadow Hawk, Marauder, Wasp, Rifleman, & Pheonix Hawk (oh right I have this one too!) and I could play battle tech in the backyard.

You can still find the Griffin (Roundfacer), Shadow Hawk (Dougram), Thunderbolt (Ironfoot), and Goliath (Crabgunner) 1/48 Fang of the Sun: Dougram kits all over the place. A 1/72 Marauder (Glaug) is a little more difficult to find but is still out there. They all match up beautifully with their 1/60th BattleTech counterparts.

hehe too bad there's no mad cat and daishi equivalet i'd pick those up in a jiffy

there are 1/60 Mad Cat, Vulture, and Atlas resin kits out there (Armorcast) plus a newer and larger 28mm Elemental to go with them. The license has not (yet) been transferred to the new Armorcast owners as far as I know but the kits can still be found.

A more typical solution is to use a double hinge and have pivot points where the peg struts coming out of the hinge plug into the rest of the model.

That's the conclusion I have come to. I've never worked with these types of joints before so "ball joint" was stuck in my mind. Next time I can manage an order to HLJ I'll be picking up some of these: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?KBYD-114B

Making up a pivot at each of the pegs shouldn't prove too difficult.

I did pick up a link to an armature site that offers the metal ball joints like on the third hand tool. Almost exactly what i need but too expensive for the quantity needed: http://www.armaverse.com/phase-2_parts.html

Thanks all for your replies.

Hi all,

I ran into a situation where the parts I need (whether they exist or not) are outside my range of knowledge. I am looking for a double ball joint that is nearly identical to the ones on my alligator clip "third hands" tool. The joint must have one rod/pin in each end (or can be modified for such) and it must have a complete 360 degrees of 3-D movement.

Here's a rough example, on the left is the third hand tool:

Any and all help locating this would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Brian