Hallo all folks,
I just need this one to be done correctly… how do you guys glue large part together without resulting in more correction actions afterwards…i have bad experience before…here’s an example.
gluing 1/32 F-4 phantom fuselage half with liquid plastic cement…since the cement dry quickly , more glue is need to avoid the cement dry . (applying the cement is also time consuming due to the long fuselage gluing surface) then when i join both surface, the cement started to dry before i complete finishing the whole alignment (1/32 phantom is really big) So it end up with miss alignment and futher surgery is done and ate my precious time… so please share with me the mastermodeller method… do the job need to be done with different glue (slow setting type??) btw, i’m using revell plastic cement the one with needle applicator) thanks
Apply the glue in sections. I use fast drying ca and start at the top. I apply about four inches and let it set up. I then keep gluing small sections at a time, pressing the parts together to squeeze out the cement and plastic. After the whole sections are completed I cut or trim off the squeezed out plastic and then check for areas that will require more glue. If there is an opening, I apply the glue from the inside, which cuts down on glue getting on the outside of the model.
DewaPerang, if you use a small pointy paintbrush you can apply the liquid glue along the out side if the seam an inch or so at a time. It will flow between the parts then press them together and hold the alighnment as it sets. If you use Tenax it will set quick enough to not wear you out but give you a few seconds for alighning before it sets. The medium viscosity CA glues can be used this way too. I’ve had to do very little seam repair since I started doing it that way. I would use a applicator for the CA though, you’d ruin a brush after the first time it dried.
Eric
I’ve found that the easiest way to apply CA glue into very tight spots is to apply a very small amount onto the tip of a hobby knife, such as a #11 blade, then use it to slide between the sections. This makes it fairly painless to glue small sections at a time without messing up the seam. Also, the CA won’t damage the blade. Repeat ad nauseum.
demono69