MeinMMO editor Caro finds painting her tabletop miniatures quite relaxing, but there’s one step she just can’t get used to.
Sitting down in the evening at the table with an audiobook or a series to relax while painting my miniatures sounds like a dream. I would be so happy that the fine work on the details and the slow process truly calms me down instead of stressing me out… if it weren’t for my absolute nemesis in miniature hobbies: glue.
Glue and I… I don’t think we’ll ever be a well-rehearsed team. However, I wish we could at least tolerate each other.
Not such a low aim, because: when I inevitably have to work with glue to put the individual parts of a miniature together, I get so angry (as someone who is usually not easily rattled) that I’m close to slamming my workstation along with the miniature against the wall.
Glue doesn’t love me, and I don’t love it either
I want to emphasize here: Glue and I actually had quite a decent start. The little feet of my miniatures hold firmly to their bases without any problems and don’t cause any fuss.
However, I am now daring to tackle larger candidates, including a big dragon that I ordered on Etsy.
But the individual parts of the miniature are so large and consequently heavy that the glue can’t hold the parts together. I glued and glued, pressed the pieces together with all my might until the substance hardened, only to lose the previously attached body part again with the next piece I want to glue.
Even worse: when I actually manage to glue everything together and think, “Yes, finally the fun part starts, and I get to paint,” then the glue becomes particularly nasty. It would be a shame if a leg, a wing, or even the head decided to say goodbye just when you’re completely in the flow and adding a nice highlight, right?
The glue hates me just as much as I hate it.
Alternative solutions are also rather suboptimal
I have tried various things. On one hand, Green Stuff – which I unfortunately am not quite sympatico with yet – which provides more stability but is personally just a really unwieldy material for me.
On the other hand, there’s plastic glue, which not only glues two parts together but slightly melts the surface, so they are really connected when drying. How effective this glue is, I was able to find out during my first visit to a Warhammer store, when I promptly melted the entire shield of the miniature of the month.
Unfortunately, this glue only works with plastic miniatures, such as the Warhammer models. My Etsy miniatures, which are 3D printed and made of resin, unfortunately do not benefit from this at all.
So far, my likely solution is: maybe I will have to fall back on Warhammer miniatures, even though I want to use the miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons, if I want to avoid the conflict with glue.
I now ask you, no, I beg you: If you have your own recommendations for glue that you’re satisfied with, please let me know! Especially if you also work with resin miniatures!
Until then, I will probably do my best to approach the matter with patience and a bit more caution. Otherwise, I will probably really have to rely more on Warhammer miniatures. I’ve already started anyway: I actually just wanted to buy flowers, but now I own a Tyranid, and it couldn’t be cuter
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