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I got a newsletter from Wayland yesterday promoting that they have Bondic in stock, this is a new product to me, and I think relatively new to the Uk, but, if it works as it claims, I can see it having a lot of modeling applications, although it strikes me as it may need some practice to be really effective.

Website is here.. http://notaglue.com/

In short, it's a material that can be used to bond items together, and rather than curing in the traditional way, remains liquid until exposed to a brief blast of UV light, at which point it hardens and becomes permanent.

It's billed more as a weld than a glue, and for large joins or long seams or gaps it may be superior to traditional CA glue or poly cement.

It's clearly not new to the market, so I thought I'd canvas the opinion of any Dakkanaughts that may have given it a go already.

Interesting idea. The only problen is hat if you're using your hands to hold the pieces together, how do you start the UV light?

I watched a couple of the how to vids and it looks like it dries kind of bulky. It also looks like you have to apply more than one layer for it to hold really well.

I'm with the other guy too, that since it stays liquid, there is no real way to hold the pieces together with your hands while you activate the UV to cure it.

It looks like it could work well when building dioramas and on larger models though.

Re: holding bits together

It claims to 'weld' stuff, and welding doesn't use anything with any natural adhesion as a rule either. Welding tends to use things such as magnets, clamps etc (even rivets) to hold the pieces in place while the weld joins them together, so I'd assume some sort of equivalent would be needed here (elastic bands and crocodile clips or similar.)

The bulk on the joins was something occurred to me, and was hoping somebody would pop up who'd used it and could advise whether it was sandable once cured (again, with real metal welding, the welds would be ground down if a smooth finish was needed.)