<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "I have a question about plastic glue."]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net I have a question about plastic glue.
Could someone please clear this up for me? Thanks.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370010.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370010.page GMT I have a question about plastic glue.
V1ND4LOO wrote:Hey, recently bought a plastic Chaos lord, and I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I don't want to assemble the whole mini before painting, but I'm worried that the plastic glue won't work through painted pieces, I've done a little research, and it's about a 50/50 split of people saying aye and nay.

Could someone please clear this up for me? Thanks.


I paint then assemble a lot of my minis. I don't know if it's necessary, but what I do before I glue is to find out where the two parts are going to touch, and then gently scrape away a small patch of paint on both surfaces with a file or a knife. I do the same thing with bits I'm going to superglue as well as plastic glue. I don't have any excessive problems with bits falling off. An arm might come off once in a while, but that's par for the course and happens at joins where I glued-then-painted just as often as painted-then-glued.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370117.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370117.page GMT I have a question about plastic glue.
Nevelon wrote:
I paint then assemble a lot of my minis. I don't know if it's necessary, but what I do before I glue is to find out where the two parts are going to touch, and then gently scrape away a small patch of paint on both surfaces with a file or a knife. I do the same thing with bits I'm going to superglue as well as plastic glue. I don't have any excessive problems with bits falling off. An arm might come off once in a while, but that's par for the course and happens at joins where I glued-then-painted just as often as painted-then-glued.


Ah thanks, now you also mentioned metal. I have another question about your painting order with metal miniatures, do you paint, then assemble or vice versa? If the former, how do you go about it? As I've got some metal miniatures that I would like to paint up, but I don't want to assemble them before painting, their arms would prevent me from painting their chests.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370131.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370131.page GMT Re:I have a question about plastic glue. GW spray primers and Board to Pieces primers don't seem to have any issue with being glued, but Tamiya color (which I happened to use one time as an experiment with a white primer I had laying around) led to disastrous results.

Metal Miniatures are largely the same story, it's not the metal that's going to change how you do things, only the paint...assuming you're using a proper glue for metal and not plastic glue.

This is all assuming that you're not talking about glueing onto pieces that have had details painted on them, as it wouldn't make sense to detail paint a piece that was going to be serving as a contact point for glue anyway.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370204.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370204.page GMT I have a question about plastic glue.
Keep in mind that if bits are blocking you off from painting behind them, in most cases you won't be able to see that bit anyway...



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Even if you won't be able to see everything once assembled, I generaly find it easier to paint when things are seperate. Less poking a brush in tight spaces and craning to get the proper angle. The one problem I have is holding small bits when painting them. I'm sure some blu-tack and a stick would work, but I'm lazy...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370371.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370371.page GMT I have a question about plastic glue. I test the pose using blu-tac and the pins, mark off where paint will need to go and replace the blu-tac with masking tape that's been cut to size.
Check the pose again removing any excess tape then prime and basecoat.
The tape is only removed when the model is being stuck together. No scraping needed but takes longer to prepare.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370396.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4370396.page GMT I have a question about plastic glue. tactical marines ill leave the bolters out when painting.
assault marines i leave their backpacks off
models with capes i leave the backpack off

i pin my metal models, and superglue does the rest of the job.
when using plastic models, i also scrape of file off a bit of the paint where it needs to be glued]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4371253.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4371253.page GMT I have a question about plastic glue.
I tend to undercoat with extreme prejudice and I've never really had a problem with painted joints debonding. However if they do, then its easy enough to clean up the join and re-glue. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4371393.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4371393.page GMT I have a question about plastic glue. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4372479.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4372479.page GMT I have a question about plastic glue. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4374716.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/454003/4374716.page GMT