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I'm wanting to use the Citadel texture paint for the bases of my figures. I was wondering what type of glue I should to glue my figure to the base once the texture pain is on?

I haven't used the texture paint yet but i would expect it wouldn't be a good surface to glue onto.

it may be best to pin the model down with a wire and super glue it.

this is if you are painting the textile paint before gluing the model onto the base.

This is tricky. If you glue the model on top of the texture then it is much more likely to come apart.

You might be better off super gluing a rock or some type of suitable material down that the feet will actually be on top of. Then texture everything but the very top of the stand.

The texture paint is meant to be used on miniatures that have already been glued to their bases. It's so it doesn't give the mini the "sinking" feeling sanding the base can sometimes give.

 Deunstephe wrote:
The texture paint is meant to be used on miniatures that have already been glued to their bases. It's so it doesn't give the mini the "sinking" feeling sanding the base can sometimes give.

I was just thinking about situations where you would pile it on. But upon reflection, if you are putting so much on that it's going to bury the feet you probably aren't doing it right.

It's just that my Ork is wearing something on his pants that is just shy of touching the base. I thought it would be near to impossible to be able to paint the base with my Ork taking up space.

Tandyman wrote:
It's just that my Ork is wearing something on his pants that is just shy of touching the base. I thought it would be near to impossible to be able to paint the base with my Ork taking up space.

It depends on: The size of the Ork, the size of his base, and what you want to put on it. If it's snow or mud, then you don't have to worry as you can make his paints snowy with a drybrush of white or muddy with some of the brown texture paint and a lighter brown drybrush over that. Otherwise you'll want to sand and paint the base, put small blobs of greenstuff on the feet, but superglue on the greenstuff, and press him into the base. Then flock appropriately.

Don't glue to textured paint, as the bond then relies on the adhesion of the paint, which will give out far more easily than glue. Either pin the model through the texture, if you apply it first, or raise him up a bit by gluing shims under his feet, then painting on the texture. Since you can tailor the height by using thicker (or more) spacers, you're free to use as much or as little of your chosen basing material as you like (I completely disagree with Deunstephe's extremely limiting take on texture paste, which is neither something GW invented nor a direct response to a particular issue), without risk of the model appearing to sink. If it's a plastic model, you can use plasticard for the spacers and attach everything with polystyrene cement for a rock-solid bond. For metal, I'd pin through the shims (which I would still use, since I feel they're more solid than dried paint).

 oadie wrote:
(I completely disagree with Deunstephe's extremely limiting take on texture paste, which is neither something GW invented nor a direct response to a particular issue).

I just restated what's on the GW website and something based on a couple of reviews I've seen. IMO, any texture paint is meant to be used how the user sees fit. For example, making muddy tires on a vehicle, or giving a swamp that overgrown feel.

In response to the OP, you could also use a resin bonding material, although it may not work well with paint to paint. I wouldn't know, I haven't tried it yet but there's someone who has.

Just responding to what you said, as I read it, regardless of whether it represented your entire opinion. There are a lot of people (at large, and in a reasonably representative segment on Dakka) who simply don't recognize what products actually are, buying and attempting to use them only in the narrow manner they see in a tutorial (or advertisement, as company "product spotlight" type features tend to be). I simply didn't want any readers restricting themselves unnecessarily. For all I know, the product is odd and doesn't behave well enough to allow for significant buildup, as a Golden/Vallejo/Liquitex/DIY equivalent would.

I still think that trying to attach the model to the paint is foolish, regardless of the adhesive used, though, because it relies on the texture paint's adhesion to the base. Even a paint with reasonably good adherence lacks the strength of a CA/epoxy putty/physical (solvent-based cement or pinning) bond.

Thanks for the help! I'll take everyone's comments into consideration.