Painting 28mm mounted figures.

[Harry Faversham]

Bit of a quandary, got a passel of mounted 28mm Pony Wars figures, and realised I've never done any before, ever!
Thousand of 15/20mm figures, which I usually fix the rider to the horse before painting. I'm not so confident this will work with 28s, so what's the best way to proceed, please?

1. Do you drill and pin, and what's the best glue to attach rider to horse?

2. Best thing and way to attach the figure to a temporary base, to paint him?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Dags]

I mostly glue riders in place first.

1. Decent quality superglue - if the fit isn't great, add a tiny ball of milliput (or greenstuff/procreate) to the saddle, put a bit more glue on top (cocktsil stick works great as an applicator) and push the rider in place. Leave to care and clean up any excess with a scalpel blade

2. New blu tack (it goes off after a couple of uses)

[SteveBurt]

Always glue the rider on first. If plastic, use polystyrene cement and he won’t come off. If metal, use general purpose glue (UHU/Bostik) and bend the legs in a little to grip the horse.

[Harry Faversham]

Sorry, didn't make it clear. Figures are 28mm metal, so UHU/Bostik to fix and a bit of Milliput to tidy up.
Thanks chaps.

[Orctrader]

1. Do you drill and pin, and what's the best glue to attach rider to horse?

2. Best thing and way to attach the figure to a temporary base, to paint him?[/b]

1.  I do.  And I use Superglue.

2.  I use cork bottle stopper, the type that comes stuck to a plastic top.  Brass rod inserted and the drilled figure attached. 

And both horse and rider are fully varnished before I attach the figure to horse.

[Charlie_]

For me it depends on whether the saddle is sculpted on to the horse or the rider.

For Perry late medieval figures... The plastics have the saddle on the horse, so I take the opportunity to paint horse and rider separate, then glue together when done. Both are varnished separately.

Their metal figures from the same range have the rear part of the saddle sculpted on to the rider, so it leaves a little gap I don't like if just glued... So I glue them on first and fill the gap with green stuff, then paint the horse and rider together.

Both have pros and cons. Having them separate means you can get to every nook and cranny, but then of course some of these bits aren't going to be visible once glued together.
Conversely if glued together, it can be a bit fiddly to get to certain areas... BUT you can afford to leave these certain areas just primed and not painted, as they aren't really going to be seen.

[Silent Invader]

I mostly glue riders in place first.

1. Decent quality superglue - if the fit isn't great, add a tiny ball of milliput (or greenstuff/procreate) to the saddle, put a bit more glue on top (cocktsil stick works great as an applicator) and push the rider in place. Leave to care and clean up any excess with a scalpel blade

2. New blu tack (it goes off after a couple of uses)

I also do exactly this

[majorsmith]

Dry fit before painting, drill and pin

[Mindenbrush]

I paint separately.
Drill the underside of the rider and mount on steel pin (excess length from steel spears) using hot glue and pushed into a wine cork.
The horse is hot glued to a 1” dia bottle top which has been hot glued to a wine cor.
Wine corks are hot glued to 30mm dia washers for stability.
I use super glue to bond rider to horse.