Preferred Plastic Cement?

[Autodidact-O-Saurus]

What’s your preferred cement for assembling plastic figures? A number of years ago I was using Plastruct Plastic Weld to assemble Wargames Factory figures and was pretty happy with it. Has anything better come along? I’ve just ordered some Victrix figures and need to get some cement, too, but Hobby Bunker doesn’t carry Plastic Weld.

IIRC, Plastic Weld is primarily acetone. I think fingernail polish remover is too. Has anyone experimented using fingernail polish remover to assemble figures? It’s a lot more accessible in my area.

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[Steve Johnson]

Plastic Weld is still the best and the same stuff we use at work. IIRC the active ingredient is Dichloromethane rather than Acetone, and has a bit more ‘body’ than standard Dichloromethane.

[Mike]

Always used Humbrol liquid poly.

[irishserb]

I prefer the Plastruct Bondone. Plastic weld has too much filler in it and clogs up my syringe.

[Deleted User]

I’ve been using greenstuff instead of glue as it also allow me to fill the gaps.

[MartinR]

I just use whatever the local model shop has, mainly Revell cement. Seems to work fine, they are all very similar.

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[Deleted User]

If I’m serious eg sticking on shields or replacement heads etc, I use 2-part epoxy. Slow, fiddly, messy but once dry, it sticks!

 

donald

[deephorse]

If they are ‘hard’ plastic then model shop Revell glue.  If they are ‘soft’ plastic then they won’t be in my collection!

 

 

 

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[Not Connard Sage]

Mike wrote:

Always used Humbrol liquid poly.

Yeah, that.

It’s polystyrene glue. For gluing polystyrene. Which is what ‘hard’ plastic is. Why complicate s***?

 

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[Mr. Average]

A very timely thread! I always liked Testors gel but it doesn’t work on the new generation of plastic minis I’ve found – they fall right apart!

[Sane Max]

Not Connard Sage wrote:

It’s polystyrene glue. For gluing polystyrene. Which is what ‘hard’ plastic is. Why complicate s***?

‘cos some of them are not very good. I am old enough to remember GW’s brilliant Liquid Poly, that was sold in a plastic bottle.. Mostly it was poor quality, but one Batch was extra strong and ate the bottles they were in… if you were lucky. If you were not, you applied it to your Space-Marine and watched their arms melt right off..

And the sort that come with a brush that screw on the bottle, like Beatties did (i only ran out of Beatties Liquid Poly a year back) are extra-good.

[Not Connard Sage]

Sane Max wrote:

Not Connard Sage wrote:

It’s polystyrene glue. For gluing polystyrene. Which is what ‘hard’ plastic is. Why complicate s***?

‘cos some of them are not very good. I am old enough to remember GW’s brilliant Liquid Poly, that was sold in a plastic bottle.. Mostly it was poor quality, but one Batch was extra strong and ate the bottles they were in… if you were lucky. If you were not, you applied it to your Space-Marine and watched their arms melt right off.. And the sort that come with a brush that screw on the bottle, like Beatties did (i only ran out of Beatties Liquid Poly a year back) are extra-good.

GW? <spit>

Humbrol poly cement held my Airfix models together just fine. It worked equally as well on Tamiya, Revell, Frog, Aurora, Hasegawa and all the other kits I could find in the local model shops. Therefore, my personal experience suggests that it works just fine. And it came in a glass bottle with a brush in the lid

Of course, it’s entirely possible that changes in formulation to appease the elven safety Nazis have completely buggered it up. In which case Mek-Pak, if that hasn’t been banned outright. Just don’t look at the COSHH sheet for it.

And you still owe me a packet of crisps.

 

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[Norm S]

I use revell Contacta, it is superb, but the fumes bother me – anyone know of anything that is a bit less ‘fummy’?

[Mike]

Not Connard Sage wrote:

Of course, it’s entirely possible that changes in formulation to appease the elven safety Nazis have completely buggered it up.

I use it to this day.
Smells like sticktory

[NTM]

Humbrol precision of Revell contacta for me

[Autodidact-O-Saurus]

Thanks for all the input.

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