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Hey all

I recently bought two of Pegasus Hobbies' Gothic City building kits (the large set and the small set with the rose window) for a 40k terrain idea I've got in my head. They seem to be quite sturdy plastic though, so I'm wondering what glue to use to stick them together where I need to (pretty much everywhere it seems).

I'm thinking Tamiya Extra Thin or EMA Plastic Weld, which is all I currently have, won't quite be good enough or even the right type of glue to use on the plastic - to me it doesn't seem like your normal model kit styrene.

Anyone here have any experience working with these kits and able to offer any insight?

Thanks in advance.

I used Testor's cement and they went together fine. They are polystyrene, if a bit harder/thicker than GW kits for example.

Ah cool so something a bit more hot weld, like I currently have, should work then.

Many thanks, much obliged.

 Rob Lee wrote:
Ah cool so something a bit more hot weld, like I currently have, should work then.

Many thanks, much obliged.

Yeah, I tend to reserve my "good cements" (Mr. Cement, PlastWeld) for where I really need the thinner, faster bonding, and keep some "cheap cements" (Testors, Revell) on hand for big chunky kits.

They are made of the same kind of styrene as GW uses, only they are a bit chunkier.

I've not had issues with revell contacta on them to hold them together. Tamiya poly cemenet and Testors should also work.

I reserve stuff like the plastic weld for stuff like ABS.

Great thanks, good to know. Looking at them when I test assembled the sections the other week I couldn't tell anything other than they're plastic.

Wondering now if I should buy another pot of Mr Cement (orange topped bottle) just for this job, it seemed to be a bit of a less thin variant. I ran out of it last year and haven't got around to "restocking" it. Hmm.