soldering

[Luis R.]

i was wondering if any of you solder your figures rather than glueing them. If so, would you please share your techniques, tools, etc? . I want to assemble a big scale mounted figure and thought that soldering it's heavy parts together would make stronger joints.

 

[thegoodsgt]

Soldering could be tricky. From what I understand, the actual chemical composition of the metals used in any particular figure will affect its ability to be soldered together.

As an alternative, you might use JB Weld. It's an industrial two-part epoxy that some have sworn by. I think their packaging says you can use it to fix a broken engine block!

 

[John Long]

Solder and white metal alloys used in figures have nearly the same melting point. Care should be used or else you will destroy detail on your figure. Mario Fuentes recommended using Tix solder for it's low melting point. This was only used to pin the figure's feet, not to join the parts. I wouldn't recommend soldering parts together. CA glues and five minute epoxies coupled with judicious pinning will be much less frustrating and hold nearly as well.

 

[PJ Deluhery]

I think it was a pretty standard practice in the "old days" before the availablilty of modern adhesives. Today, I don't know anyone who still does this. The melting points are tricky. it's harder to do, and you can get just as good (or better!) results with less work using adhesives.