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So I'm about to spray paint 5 Harpies so I can get them painted before Christmas shut down and the inevitable game binge that I'll be able to go on. The Harpies I got are sans wings, but I figured that worst case scenario I could simply paint them up and glue wing tips on later. These being pewter models, my immediate concern is how well the superglue will hold whatever wings I try to attach. Any thoughts would be great. Anybody with spare bat-like wings of ANY type would be even greater.

I don't think you want to glue anything of substantial weight directly on paint if you're connecting flat surfaces. If you have pegs and deep enough holes, getting paint in there shouldn't have an adverse effect aside from decreasing the size of the holes and making it harder to fit the wings. Though it sound like you don't have matching ones at the moment? So that may not even be a consideration.

You could always pin the wings for added stability, drilling holes either before or after priming. Provided the models are large enough, of course.

In my experience priming shouldn't lead to issues per se, as long as you're taking steps to make sturdy connections in the first place.

Paint the model up and then scrape the join surfaces clean with a blade before scoring the join surface and applying superglue. You can also use a pin if any of the surfaces near the join area are very visible once assembled and thus you don't want to scrape them for fear of damaging the paintwork that's exposed.

After assembly you might need a drop of nuln oil or such just to fill in and darken any gap that might be visible.