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In your experiences what is the best way to glue plastic to styrafoam? (minis to bases) I am trying to use styrafoam to dress up some bases and was wondering before i started trying different ways/ types of glue what would be the best way to go. I know superglue would melt the styrafoam, what would give me the strongest hold?

Would PVA glue give me a strong enough bond?

No, it wouldn't.

You'd need to 'clad' the styro in something to get any decent glue to allow a good bond between the styrofoam and plastic.

Cardboard can be glued to the styrofoam with pva - when you let it dry properly it will stay there. When it is dry, you can use polycement (regular model glue) to glue plastic to cardboard (it can take a while, but it WILL work). Superglue will also work with this method.

try hot glue ( aka hot glue gun) works pretty well, It also depends on the type of styrofoam too . If its the pink stuff your ok buyt the white stuff your not.

Or try gorilla glue.