Temporary gluing to painting sticks

[anevilgiraffe]

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.

[fred]

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!

[zemjw]

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.

[anevilgiraffe]

Thanks, will give double sided tape a try.

[ithoriel]

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.

[snitcythedog]

Glue dots will do the job too.

[AndrewBeasley]

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 :-(

[Vis Bellica]

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.

[Sunjester]

I use Copydex, or the cheaper Hobbycraft version.

[zemjw]

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

(*) 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?

[2010sunburst]

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….