Privateer Press Plastics don't come on Sprues!

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**asmith**

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the lack of sprue probably just means they are having an outside vendor do their molding. Most mold tools are made to automatically desprue the parts as well as automatically sort the parts and sprues as they are ejected from the tool.

I have designed and ordered many parts for injection molding and by default the vendor will assume the parts will come already desprued. I'm just guessing about this but this news also leads me to believe that the parts will come with significantly less flash and moldlines than you are used to seeing from GW parts.

**Linkdead**

aka_mythos wrote:
George Spiggott wrote:
warpcrafter wrote:Besides, surely they will sell the glue that is appropriate for them.

They do, it's called superglue.

Surely you've been in the hobby long enough to know that plastic cement/glue physically joins the two parts by melting them into each other. Superglue only adherese the two surfaces to the glue and thus to each other.

When I engineer a system at my job, we select adhesives and bonding agents based on a simple concept. For a permanent joining the material that is being joined should fail before the adhesive. That means the miniature should break before the glue does. Super Glue is a poor choice in that regard and its only used in the hobby because of how readily available it is. Even readily available adhesive epoxy is better than superglue.

The problem lies in their choice of plastic formula. Plastic solvents (plastic weld, Dichloromethane) only work on certain types of plastic. Styrene, ABS, Butyrate, Acrylic, Plexiglass, and Lucite are the only plastics you can weld with these solvents.

**Ozymandias**

George Spiggott wrote:
ZandrisIV wrote:If they are using the same plastic that's used in Monpoc, then even Plastic Weld won't work on it. I use the stuff to strip the paint off the Monpoc miniatures, and the plastic is untouched. That plastic doesn't even take superglue very well.

Then it must not be this stuff as the article in NQ says that it glues with superglue. Also according to the article the figures use 'pegs and holes' to help hold them together.

We could wait until we have them in our hands before declaring the sky to have fallen.

This is Dakka, we don't need any reason to declare the sky is falling!

**ZandrisIV**

George Spiggott wrote:Then it must not be this stuff as the article in NQ says that it glues with superglue. Also according to the article the figures use 'pegs and holes' to help hold them together.

We could wait until we have them in our hands before declaring the sky to have fallen.

Even if it does glue with superglue, personal experience has told me that plastics and superglue really do not mix very well, especially if it is bendy plastic (which the Alkemy figs are made of). Any flexing of the plastic will cause the superglue joins to crack, and to top it off, superglue generally doesn't adhere well to plastics. In any case, I agree with you, let's wait to see if we get some proper wargaming/modelling plastics or the rubbery stuff pre-painted toys are made of. The only people in the world that can make the rubbery stuff look good are the Japanese.