Anyone know where I can find very small hinges or joints? I mean VERY small, tiny enough to add pop-out weapons to our 1:18 figures. I've found that Neo Shifter minifigs have appropriately sized ball joints, but they are pretty hard to come by.

Thoughts?

Dollhouse hinges too big for what you want?

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Nah, metal's no good when working with plastic figs and vehicles.

You're looking for the wide world of Options Kits.

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Star Wars medical droids' arms are good for swiping small hinges from. Hot Wheels/Matchbox crane hooks work pretty well too. Lego is fantastic for this kind of stuff too.

I know a lot of people use the joints AV pointed out, but personally I just swipe them from other figures. Minimates, Megablocks Marvel or Halo, Stikfas, etc.

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I've actually used a dollhouse hinge to make a folding stock on a Spytroops era G36. Can't find a pick right now though.

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I like tiny doll house hinges here is an example of one I cut down to make even smaller.
I use joints from female new sculpt figures

Lots of good ideas here, and I think the Star Wars Droid angle might be a profitable one. I think there have been some R2D2 figures with opening doors...

If you can cut the pieces to overlap, you can drill a 1mm hole through the overlapping pieces and make your own hinge with metal dowling.

- R

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I disagree.

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Greyryder, I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at here...

That's the sliding and folding mechanism for the powered scabbard on Greyryder V2's backpack. I was just refuting AV's comment about metal not working on figures and vehicles.

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Where can I see more of it and how it works?

Nevermind, I found it. Wow... I hope I can live up to that level (and then maybe actually get around to posting my work).

Does anyone have any recommendations for tiny hinge swivel joints?

I'm using Jada HALO 4 mini figures now but i'd love an easier to obtain source.

I don't know if this is easier to obtain, but I recently used a transformer part (not generation 1).