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Author Topic: Glueing plasticard to MDF  (Read 1041 times)

Offline olyreed

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Glueing plasticard to MDF
« on: September 07, 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?

Offline Mammoth miniatures

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Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2020, 11:12:51 AM »
Cheap cyanoacrylate superglue.

Offline Jagannath

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Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 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!

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Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2020, 10:20:30 PM »
If you roughed up the styrene wouldn't 5 minute epoxy work?

Offline AndrewBeasley

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Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 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.


Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 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.
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Offline olyreed

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Re: Glueing plasticard to MDF
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2020, 07:43:23 AM »
Thanks for all the replies. Much appreciated

 

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