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soulman901 wrote:Hello, I'm getting started in Warhammer 40K and had a few questions on glues.

1. I've seen the Games Workshop Plastic Glue but I'm not sure about paying so much for so little. Is there a kind out there in Liquid Form that I can brush on that would work?

For plastic-plastic bonds, I've always used Revell glue. See here. The bottle has a long capillary tube (like a syringe needle but not sharp at the end) meaning you can apply small amounts quite precisely and quickly, more so than with the brush you get in Liquid Poly. Humbrol do a similar bottle. The only snag is that the tube occasionally clogs if you don't keep it clean, but that's easily cleared with a piece of wire or a fine pin.

Liquid poly has it's uses, because it's so watery you can use the brush to run the glue into cracks and the like, and there's a few other tricks you can do with it too but I prefer the stuff above for assembly.

I notice that the GW plastic glue bottle has much less content and far more expensive than the Revell one too.


Other people have advised on Superglue, I'd say go for the gel stuff if you can. Normal superglue is so runny is has a tendancy to get everywhere and end up in unexpected places. Unless you're careful with the application, it has a tendacy to run I don't know why it happens, but I defy you to find a modeller who hasn't stuck their fingers together at some point.

Oh, and I wouldn't buy any plastic glue that comes in a metal tube. Superglue often does, but plastic glue is available in so many better containers.

Application goes thus; Squeeze, nothing, squeeze, still nothing, squeeze - whoosh.

Why some manufacturers persist in making it in metal tubes like toothpaste is beyond me, it's like we're living in the '50s.