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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Hammers on January 24, 2010, 11:04:35 AM
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I always glue my miniatures to a plastic wine cork with hot glue, like so...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/2009_0929tools0034.JPG)
..to get a good hold when I paint them. The bond between cork and base has always been firm enough to last for a certain amount of manhandling and soft enough for a stout blade to part when the mini is done. However, I got a new bag of what I thought was generic glue sticks some time ago and the bond these create are just a bastard to cut apart. With the amount of force I need to apply I am bound to ruin a miniature some day.
Does anyone know of a way to dissolve hot glue bar using heat, which obviously would ruin the paint job to?
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I can't answer your question but I do do something similar with bostik. A small dab provides a strong bond which will part with a knife. The residue then scrapes away (and if necessary, the tiniest of remnants can be lifted with careful application of nail varnish remover).
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Try propanone
It reacts with a lot of different polys and your hot glue may well be made from one of them
EDIT: I believe it's aceton in Swedish vardagsnamn
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Aceton, yes. I am sure it wont do though. Thanks all the same.
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Aceton, yes. I am sure it wont do though. Thanks all the same.
You could always try hot water...
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Blimey, I must be an amateur at this painting malarky; I just Blu-Tak my figures to a GW piantpot and it's h'away the lads!
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Blimey, I must be an amateur at this painting malarky; I just Blu-Tak my figures to a GW piantpot and it's h'away the lads!
How paltry a method! I mock you for it!
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I bow my head in shame.
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I use white tack - more civilised than blue. Mock me too but I never have to ask how to get the glue off mine :D
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Old skool blu-tak for me too.
But if you really want to mock, sometimes I just hold the figures ... by the base! :o