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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: anevilgiraffe on 06 January 2025, 07:40:45 PM
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What’s the best glue for sticking resin to a painting stick for ease? Have a load of smallish scatter bits that have languished for too long and although I don’t normally utilise putting stuff on a stick, I feel it will actually help for these…
I’m assuming hot glue is possibly the best? Superglue seems too permanent.
Thank you.
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I use double sided tape - has good stick for painting, but easy to remove afterwards. Only downside is removing the stupid backing tape, which always seems to want to stay stuck to the tape!
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I am a big fan of blu-tak for attaching things to painting bases. It can support quite a bit of weight, and is easy to remove.
I have used copydex in the past, which is a latex based glue, so reasonably easy to remove afterwards.
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Thanks, will give double sided tape a try.
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Copydex (aka cow gum though no cows are involved!) is the only thing I use.
Brush Copydex on the painting stick, position miniatures, allow Copydex to dry, paint miniatures, allow to dry, peel miniatures off the stick, peel Copydex off the stick - rinse (not literally) and repeat.
Available from Amazon, Hobbycraft, B&Q, Staples and many other stores in anything from 50ml to 500ml pots.
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Glue dots will do the job too.
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I've used UHU (brown) before today but find it goes very hard over time and I do have a bad habit of undercoating in summer and painting in winter! If you get things finished in a couple of weeks it seems to be fine.
Blu-tac seems to have changed in the last couple of years - it now seems to react with the spray paints I've been using for years and can breakdown and go very very sticky / slimy or get a skin on it that means I have to throw it. I know its not the paint as it's the same can I've had for a few years.
For 3D resin (not cast) I would use blu-tac and be careful removing them - I've lost a few models by snapping the legs / ankles when I twisted them off the stick :-(
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Another vote for Copydex.
I put small blobs of Cppydex onto the stick, leave for five minutes to start the setting process, then push the figures to be painted into the blobs.
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I use Copydex, or the cheaper Hobbycraft version.
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Blu-tac seems to have changed in the last couple of years - it now seems to react with the spray paints I've been using for years and can breakdown and go very very sticky / slimy or get a skin on it that means I have to throw it. I know its not the paint as it's the same can I've had for a few years.
That is very annoying to hear. Mine gets covered in spray paint regularly and is still usable, although it has now changed colour somewhat. Fortunately I bought about 12 packs(*) (a complete display box full) at least 5 years ago, so I suspect it will outlast me :D
(*) to say I overestimated how much I would need for masking a camouflage pattern on some tanks is probably one of the great understatements of history ::)
Glue dots will do the job too.
I've never tried them. Are they reusable, do they peel off cleanly, or do they leave a residue on the base?
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I’ve used copydex, so that’s another plus one…..however, when it went off I moved to blue tack and have been using it for that sort of thing for a good twenty years now. It’s great stuff and is reusable almost forever….