MeinMMO editor Caro finds painting her tabletop miniatures quite relaxing, but there is one step she simply can’t get used to.
Sitting down in the evening to relax and paint my miniatures with an audiobook or a series sounds like a dream. I would be so happy if the fine work on the details and the slow approach truly calmed me down instead of stressing me out… if it weren’t for my absolute nemesis in the miniature hobby: glue.
Glue and I… I don’t think we’ll ever be a well-oiled team. However, I wish that we could at least tolerate each other.
A goal that is not so low, because: When I inevitably have to work with glue to assemble the individual parts of a miniature, I get so angry (as someone who is usually unflappable) that I am on the verge of slamming my workspace and 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 didn’t have such a bad start. The little legs of my small miniatures hold firm to their bases without any issues and don’t cause any problems.
However, I am now venturing into larger candidates, currently a large dragon that I ordered on Etsy.
The individual parts of the miniature are, however, so large and correspondingly heavy that the glue cannot hold the individual parts together. I glued and glued, pressed the pieces together with all my might until the substance hardened, only to lose the previously glued body part when I try to glue the next piece.
Even worse: If I somehow 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 decides to part ways just when you are completely in the flow and setting a nice highlight, right?
The glue hates me at least 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 still don’t really get along with – provides more stability but is personally just a really unwieldy stuff for me.
On the other hand, there is plastic glue, which not only sticks two parts together but also slightly melts the surface, so they are really bonded when drying. I was already able to find out how effective this glue is during my first visit to a Warhammer store, when I accidentally melted off the entire shield at the miniature of the month.
Unfortunately, this glue only works for plastic miniatures like the Warhammer models. My Etsy miniatures, which are 3D printed and made of resin, unfortunately don’t benefit from it at all.
So far, my probable solution is: Maybe I have to, even though I want to use the miniatures in Dungeons & Dragons, resort to miniatures from Warhammer if I want to avoid conflicts with glue.
I now ask you, no, I beg you: If you have your own recommendations for glue that you are 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 thing with patience and a bit more caution. Otherwise, I will probably really rely more on Warhammer miniatures. I have already started anyway: I only wanted to buy flowers, now I own a Tyranid and it couldn’t be cuter
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