I hope this will be my last post in my surprising three part series on sticking two things together.
I wrote last time about how to fill joints, mainly because that’s what I was trying to do at the time. The next day I sat down to put together the rest of my Malifaux crew and thought about another point that could be useful.
You can get away with the prayer method in some situations – I’m thinking terrain, or bases, or if you have the chance to build something around the joint.
In my situation, I had some railroad tracks that would only touch the base at certain points, and not enough to actually stick if the model was dropped. I could have puttied around underneath, but I was lazy. The lazy (efficient!) solution was to add another adhesive on top of and around the weak joint. I’m using the Vallejo Oxid Paste as a basing material, so I made sure to have that come up the railroad tracks at many points (really, I just enveloped the tracks in it) so that it would add more strength and stability. I’ve also seen a few people sculpt around the joint, creating more fur or feathers or a cloak, etc.
I don’t know if I would recommend this for an arm, leg or tail, but for things that are being glued to bases, it feels ok. Arms will get pulled this way and that in your case, whereas basing materials tend to just lay flat.
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