Q Regarding Marrying Painted Part on Painted Part

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Techniques
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This might be a bit obvious to some of you, but I was curious how you handle marrying of painted parts (i.e. attaching a painted bomb on a painted aircraft weapon store. CA?

Thanks,

  • Snacko
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I scrape the paint from where the parts will join, and add Testor’s model cement. Unlike CA, it actually slightly liquifies the are it’s applied, “welding” the two parts together. MUCH better than CA if you ask me!

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I drill small holes in the bomb and CA small brass wire in the hole. I also drill the same dia hole in the pylon/MER/TER and insert the brass wire into the pre drilled hole and secure with CA. Bombs do not mount flush with pylons/MER’s/TER’s. They have a gap when attatch to them. They are then held stable by sway braces and the mounting lugs hold them to the pylon. On missiles I scrape the paint off of the missile and launcher where they will be mounted.

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The two methods mentioned will work well. I must admit that I often ‘cheat’ and just join the two straight away with CA. I always regret it later because the part usually falls off and sometimes takes a chip of paint with it too. You think I’d learn…

Scrape some paint away and do it right.

M.

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Sometimes I use small wires, such as berny13 described above … and sometimes I use the scrape and glue method that TenchiMuyo81 described above … it just depends on the situation and the parts involved.

As mkish described … there is just no shortcut … as much as we all would like to find one … it just isn’t there. [;)]

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Snacko,
You’ve been the recipient of some very good advice here - I’m in touch with the problems Murray Kish talked about. Wish I had a buck for every time I’d knocked a chip of paint off a model because I’d attached a part with CA…The message here is DON’T knock anything off your model that’s been attached with CA. Doh!!
I often do what Berny does - drill two holes - one in the part and another corresponding hole in whatever it attaches to, and use wire of some sort. This can also have advantages like adding immense structural rigidity (eg. using stainless steel wire ) to a part or sub assembly - can be a real bonus.
Cheers,
LeeTree