Hand Weapons parts help needed...

[KGatch113]

I am crafting a ton of Stargrave/WGA etc figures for a game project.

I'd like to kit out many of them with close combat weapons.

The issue is if the arm will match the science fiction/modern arm.

For example, the Oathmark light infantry elf arms have wide upper sleeves and leather gauntlets....doesn't work for the aesthetic.

Fireforge sergeants and knights....mail arms and the gamebson sleeves again are not going to work.

Ghost Archipelago crew arms have flowing sleeves...again, doesn't work.
Fireforge Mongols....the sleeves are great but the poses are strange....
I was looking at some Gripping Beast Irish arms...I can swap hands and weapons....

Anyone have any recommendations from any other plastic kits?

[Elbows]

Probably better off looking at something like Anvil and going resin - I know that's not an ideal fix, but there are tons of 40K based third party companies doing resin arms/weapons, etc.

Failing that, consider actually chopping off the hand or weapon and transplanting it instead of the whole?  More work, but maybe a solution.

[Pattus Magnus]

What Elbows said about chopping the hand and weapon off and transplanting it. If you’re using solvent based plastic glue to attach to another hard plastic arm, the transplanted hand and weapon will be just as strong as the original. I have done that many times on conversions.

If it is a hard plastic to hard plastic join, you could even cut the weapon and hilt off, and glue it to the hand directly. As long as there is a similar amount of contact area between the parts the bond will be secure. (You will have to hold the pieces in place for a little while and set it aside to cure. I use blutac to hold the arm/ hand in a position so that the new weapon it straight up and down while it cures.)