Hot glue solvent?

[Hammers]

I always glue my miniatures to a plastic wine cork with hot glue, like so...



..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?

[Silent Invader]

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).

[Dr. The Viking]

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

[Hammers]

Aceton, yes. I am sure it wont do though. Thanks all the same.

[Dr. The Viking]

Aceton, yes. I am sure it wont do though. Thanks all the same.

You could always try hot water...

[Thunderchicken]

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!

[Hammers]

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!

[Thunderchicken]

I bow my head in shame.

[Svennn]

I use white tack - more civilised than blue. Mock me too but I never have to ask how to get the glue off mine

[oxiana]

Old skool blu-tak for me too.

But if you really want to mock, sometimes I just hold the figures ... by the base!