diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c10350df..2d6e6347 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2024-09-29  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>
+
+	* inst/include/RcppArmadillo/interface/RcppArmadilloAs.h: Add icube
+	exporter specialisation under ARMA_64BIT_WORD case
+
 2024-09-11  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>
 
 	* DESCRIPTION (Version, Date): RcppArmadillo 14.0.2-1 CRAN release
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 723c9cd4..c36a7321 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: RcppArmadillo
 Type: Package
 Title: 'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library
-Version: 14.0.2-1
+Version: 14.0.2-1.1
 Date: 2024-09-10
 Authors@R: c(person("Dirk", "Eddelbuettel", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "edd@debian.org",
                     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6419-907X")),
diff --git a/inst/include/RcppArmadillo/interface/RcppArmadilloAs.h b/inst/include/RcppArmadillo/interface/RcppArmadilloAs.h
index e6dc8a72..50394cd5 100644
--- a/inst/include/RcppArmadillo/interface/RcppArmadilloAs.h
+++ b/inst/include/RcppArmadillo/interface/RcppArmadilloAs.h
@@ -483,9 +483,31 @@ namespace traits {
         Rcpp::Vector<RTYPE> vec;
     };
 
-    // specializations for 3 cube typedefs that fail above
-    // first use viable conversion SEXP -> Cube<other_t>
+    // specializations for 3 (or 4, see below) cube typedefs that
+    // fail above first use viable conversion SEXP -> Cube<other_t>
     // then use conv_to<cube_t>::from(other_t other)
+#ifdef ARMA_64BIT_WORD
+    // if we use ARMA_64BIT_WORD we cannot pass int through and
+    // need a fourth specialization similar to the other three
+    template <>
+    class Exporter<arma::icube> {
+    public:
+        typedef arma::icube cube_t;
+
+        Exporter(SEXP x)
+            : tmp(Exporter<arma::cube>(x).get()) {}
+
+        cube_t get() {
+            cube_t result = arma::conv_to<cube_t>::from(tmp);
+            return result;
+        }
+
+    private:
+        typedef arma::cube other_t;
+        other_t tmp;
+    };
+#endif
+
     template <>
     class Exporter<arma::fcube> {
     public:
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/test_rng.R b/inst/tinytest/test_rng.R
index d00d3c15..9de2165c 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/test_rng.R
+++ b/inst/tinytest/test_rng.R
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ expect_true(max(a) < 1)#, msg="randu max")
 set.seed(123)
 a <- randi(10)
 expect_true(min(a) > 0)#, msg="randi min")
-expect_true(typeof(a) == "integer")#, msg="randi type")
+## under ARMA_64BIT_WORD we get 'double'
+expect_true(typeof(a) == "integer" || typeof(a) == "double")#, msg="randi type")
 
 #test.randn <- function() {
 set.seed(123)