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Title: Glueing plasticard to MDF
Post by: olyreed on 07 September 2020, 10:14:16 AM

Hi everyone,

Need help as it something I haven't done before.
What is the best thing to use to glue plastikard to MDF?

Title: Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
Post by: Mammoth miniatures on 07 September 2020, 11:12:51 AM

Cheap cyanoacrylate superglue.

Title: Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
Post by: Jagannath on 07 September 2020, 11:43:31 AM

Or Araldite - I use MDF bases and for plastic miniatures I glue them to thin plasticard bases (like integral bases on metal minis) then araldite them to the MDF, covering the magnet hole. No chance of rebasing ever, mind!

Title: Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
Post by: Codsticker on 07 September 2020, 10:20:30 PM

If you roughed up the styrene wouldn't 5 minute epoxy work?

Title: Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
Post by: AndrewBeasley on 11 September 2020, 12:35:02 AM

No more nails or equivalent.


Key point as above - rough up the plastic to give the glue something to grip to.

Title: Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
Post by: carlos marighela on 11 September 2020, 04:20:30 AM

Really not much difference to gluing plasticard to balsa wood, which is precisely what I was doing earlier in the week. Superglue does the job.

When in doubt ZAP superglue will glue just about anything to anything but I used the cheap stuff for my project and it works just fine.

Title: Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
Post by: olyreed on 11 September 2020, 07:43:23 AM

Thanks for all the replies. Much appreciated