Gluing...

[Bob Hud]

OK...so what do you all use to glue resin figures together? Is not going so well for me. Also, do you glue the figure all together and then paint? Or do it piece by piece. My guess is that it depends...

 

[FigureLover]

Hi Bob and welcome. Resin kits can be glued with Super Glue (Cyanoacrylate) or Araldite ( I use the 5 minute stuff). As to how much to glue together before painting, well that depends on how you want to paint it. I mainly do the body all first then paint and add the painted extra stuff later, but it does depend on the kit
Hope that helps
Ben

 

[Helm]

Same as Ben it depends on how easy it will be to paint when in place I like to assemble as much as possible first as it avoids any problems later
Steve

 

[Mirofsoft]

I use a drop of Patex and add a drop of cyanolite

 

[megroot]

Have that problem with resin in the past.
It is possible that there is a very fine layer of the loosing stuff from the mold that will do not let the parts glue togehter.
I always washed them with dishing soap before glueing with CA.

Marc

 

[zane666]

I usually drill a couple of small shallow holes in the 2 pieces to be glued which helps to lock in the bond, some people will add pins between parts but, I can never get them to meet together.

regards Zane

 

[Mark S]

Bob, as has been stated already you should use a Super Glue (Cyanoacrylate) or Epoxy resin and the surfaces to be glued should be clean and clear of powdered resin residue and should in my opinion be roughened beforehand i.e. scratch a cross hatch pattern on the surfaces with a sharp knife or drill small holes, or roughen with a Dremel tip to provide an area for the glue to grip onto.
I pin all joins probably more out of habit than necessity as well as the roughening of surfaces. The pinning of small pieces to be glued is usually necessary because they can be easily broken off.
As far as order of gluing and painting it does depend on the kit. An obvious example for instance would be if you have a figure holding a shield close to the body it would be almost impossible to paint the inside surface of the shield and indeed the body of the figure if that shield was glued in place at the start.
Paint the figure and shield separately and carefully glue the two together later......that's one simple example, of course, but it's basically put together the pieces you can manage to paint EASILY then put them together.......many times you'll be able to glue the entire piece together and paint it without any trouble.

 

[Tubby-Nuts2]

Exactly as Zane and Mark has said! .However always test fit as sometimes a varying degree of 'Filler' maybe required! If you opt for sub-assembly, you may find whacking great gaps in the joins!

Mark

 

[brian]

I use superglue gel as it gives you a bit of time to position whatever your trying to glue.

 

[montythefirst]

I usually drill a couple of small shallow holes in the 2 pieces to be glued which helps to lock in the bond, some people will add pins between parts but, I can never get them to meet together.

regards Zane

This method works really well when pinning

http://www.ghostofzeon.com/diy/building/pinning_resin.html

hope it helps

in terms of gluing, wash kit first, which parts to glue depends on kit as has been said, when using super glue get hold of some loctite super glue remover works great if the glue seeps out and stops fingerprints forming on surface

 

[Gra30]

Also don't add too much superglue, it stops the bonding reaction .
Often a quick smear to take excess off helps the bond. Recently I have found different brands working differently and some of the cheaper superglues seem to take an age on resin but bond other materials fine.
I use cheap DIY stores superglue for tacking when sculpting and Bostik on resin kits as it sets well.

 

[Gary D]

If it's a fairly heavy piece I am gluing, I pin it and use 2 part epoxy for the center of the joint and apply CA glue around the outside perimeter of the epoxy. This keeps the piece in place while the epoxy hardens.
Gary

 

[Tubby-Nuts2]

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...&mid=C8D8BE9B06E067D3CAB8C8D8BE9B06E067D3CAB8

. Oh! So many times has this been overlooked on assembly. ..

Mark

 

[Helm]

Easiest way to pin is the HouseCarl method drill the hole, use blue tack on the piece with the pin, lick blue tack to stop it sticking, press it home and you've got a pip exactly where you need to drill for the pin
Steve

 

[valiant]

On suitably sized pieces, I have superglued the parts in place, then drilled through the pieces and inserted the pin. A thin smear of filler will hide the pin, once gently sanded. No problems with alignment this way!

Steve