The best way to glue together Trumpeter 1/350 aircraft

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I’ll post this in “Ships” too.

I’ve put together a bunch of these things. Seagulls for CA-38 USS San Francisco, Harriers for the Tarawa LHA-1 (1/700), so on.

The ones cast in clear plastic. Nice little models.

Runny solvent glue seems to not have enough bonding surface, and the clear styrene isn’t really soft enough to melt. CA, well it holds but any touch and it snaps free.

I’m going to put together little Wildcats from VF-2 at Coral Sea.

F4F-3’s but the only ones available to build are F4F-4’s with the STO folding wing.

Which means that each little kitty has, on each side;

a fuselage half, a stub wing, and an outer wing.

The fear is that all of these little bug parts will depart.

Whats the best glue you’ve found? CA vs. clear styrene I can deal with.

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Tamiya extra thin cement. I’ve built quite a few 1/700 scale aircraft from trumpy. I apply a little to the tip after wipeing the excess off the brush and touch it to the tip of the part to be glued. Another thing I do is use the model master’s liquid glue in the black squeeze bottle. After trial and error i learned how to get very small drops out. I put a small drop into where the landing gear or other part fits in. Cyanoacrylate isn’t bad though, I use the slowest setting I can find. Otherwise you might want to try two part epoxy. I used it one time after I had originally fixed a flower pot that was part of a set for my mother. I used the left over on a resin kit with good results.