armiture trouble

whilst shooting my animation i had several problems with my armiture, the main problem being the size. looking back the armiture was too small to animate the subtle details i wanted. i was advised to make the armiture this size and decided it was the best thing to do at the time because my sets where rather large and if the puppets been any bigger the sets would have been too large to move around and caused more difficulties for me. still my armiture was too small, the main problem was that the tension of the wire did not have enough length to spread out. this caused the wire to snap in several places over the armiture. so during the shooting of 5 shots, halfway through the shot the armiture broke, this put me a day behind eeytime as i would have to leave uni an go home to fix my armiture. at first i just patched up some of the breaks with som miliput and hoped it would hold, when this snapped again and i still had important shots to shoot i decided to try a different way to fix it, i used wire and wraped it around the snapped wire and around the other connection be it the hip or shoulder joints, i used superglue to keep it in place, this worked much better than the first way i tried to fix it and the armiture has not broken since i repaired all of the broken joints this way. this process however did take time and also caused my armiture to grow in hight a little, making her slightly too tall for one of my shots inside the tube, so for this shot i tried to position her and the camera in such a way that it was less noticeable that she was too tall for it. if i had the chance to start again i would do it differently, my armitute would be bigger my sets simpler and less of them. i would have not been so overly ambitiouse with my film and kept things more simple. i feel i over complicated a simple story and caused myself more work and dificulties than needed, if i had spent more time planning the whole process would have been much simpler.