I’m getting back into armor after a couple of years. How do you attach PE brass parts and aluminium barrels to pastic & resin? How about the flat sheets of styrene. I looked at a gun truck that I built in the 70’s and all the panels fell off the plastic truck bed. I guess thirty years is too long to leave a model in a box, [:0] Huh?
The skirts on my Jagdpanther did the same thing.[V]
Ideas? Suggestions? Tips? Money? Janet Jackson’s private phone number? Wrong billboard![}:)]
To attach p/e or resin to plastic you need to use a 2 part epoxy or CA (super) glue. Also to attach resin or p/e to themselves. The one disadvantage to using CA glue is if you were to store your kits where the temperature varies it could pop apart on larger pieces over time. I use ca to build my entire models now however.
Eric
On all my plastic kits i use plastic welds like Ambroid, Plastruct, or Tennax. Bonds fast, but like most of our hobbies materials it can pose a health risk. [at least it says so on the bottle]. Does anyone else use plastic welds on their kits?
[#welcome] back to modeling and especially to the dark side!
Wow! you mean that happened just from looking at it??? Imagine what would have happened if you’d actually picked it up! lol
Eric is an expert on this stuff. A couple of things I’d add, though:
Rough up the plastic a little at the spot where you’re going to attach the pe. It helps give the glue a little “tooth”.
Also, make sure your resin or pe is clean before you try to glue it on. And, use fresh super glue! I keep letting mine sit too long on the shelf. I can tell when it’s too old because parts just don’t stick well. I usually wind up gluing my fingers together before I can get a part to stick where I want it.
Make sure you have either some super glue debonder acetone type fingernail polish remover close at hand. Both for your fingers as well as “over glues”.
Again, welcome;
I think these guys have it covered well. MartianGundamModeler I use tennex and one of those touch and flow applicators for most of my plastic to plastic joints, cant beat it.
I got a touch n flow for Christmas, but haven’t used it yet. Do you have any problems with it gooping up? How do you get it cleaned out? Is the way in the instructions the best way??
I assume it will work with Tamiya xtraThin, too. I have both Tennex and Tamiya. I use the Tamiya more because I like the brush better, but of course, that’s a moot point with a glueing tool!! lol
Bill
Bill and Eric have pretty well covered it all, I’d only mention you might try a gap filling super glue cause it takes a little longer to set up and allows some repositioning of parts. (A must on my workbench for some reason).
I have the touch-n-flow it works fine. I have never had the glue clog up at the end.
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