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Made in gb
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Was wondering what glue you use to glue minis to bases with sand on etc.
   
Made in ca
Boosting Ultramarine Biker





Vancouver, BC

Drill holes in the feet and crazy-glue in some paper-clip sourced pins. Drill holes in the base and pin the mini through the base. Another drop of crazy glue to the sole of the foot helps too.
   
Made in gb
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 Rickfactor wrote:
Drill holes in the feet and crazy-glue in some paper-clip sourced pins. Drill holes in the base and pin the mini through the base. Another drop of crazy glue to the sole of the foot helps too.

Awesome thanks, didn't realise I would have to be pinning.
   
Made in ie
Khorne Veteran Marine with Chain-Axe





Ireland

Ever since I discovered pinning, I pin nearly everything. It adds so much structure and stability, letting the glue to the bonding rather than the holding.
   
Made in ca
Longtime Dakkanaut





Calgary, AB

Don't use solid flock. It looks terrible. Mix it in with stuff, including other color flock. Flock can look amazing, but you really need to use it as an accent. I used to mix spent coffe grinds, fine sand, flock, and several shades of static grass with torn up dregs from underbrush and deer moss. The variability of the mix adds to the diversity of the basing and goes a way to making the army look better, not like it's posing on a manicured golf course

I glue my models to base, and then use a brush to apply glue to base. Any holes left on base, easily remedied by larger grains or wee gravel glued ontothemissing area with the aid of tweezers

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Yeah, don't try to glue the model to flock. Glue to the base and flock around it.

 
   
 
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