A friend of ours had one of his friends contact him on an odd glue problem he had. Here is his question?
I have been trying to glue Tim Mee soldiers to a wooden board for an art project, but I have been unable to accomplish this after trying more than a dozen adhesives. Would you know what type of plastic they are made of or what glue would accomplish this?
Do you have any suggestions?
Because wood and plastic often uses two different types of glue that do not generally match with each other. I will suggest to cover the wood with vinyl plastic disposable table cover wrap around so plastic bond glue work between figure and vinyl or use self adhesive double size Velcro in clear back cover type sold at Walmart and Target in smaller round or rectangular shape rolls/sheets
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It’s probably the board. Use sandpaper to rough it up, so that it can bond with plastic.
Try GOOP or Contact Cement. Follow the instructions.
Never found a glue that works for oily toy soldiers plastic, Erwin’s velcro idea sounds good to me !
I use the velcro when carrying figures to show.I display the poses of sets attached to long rectangular plastic flat base so people could grab hold piece and look at then in hand with out falling off.it work great.
I drive back in some cases 4 hours drive and all figures still attached.
I’ve had some luck with both hot glue and Liquid Nails. But neither will take much jostling.
Don’t know how “heavy duty” you need it, but good ol’ Elmer’s Glue should hold the things in place if you don’t mess with them, plus, easy to remove if ever need be.
Andy I had done works for school with toy soldiers for some children of friends and the Elmer glue won’t work on any plastic vintage and most modern unless you do not move the board at all. May be a different heavy duty Elmer’s glue I had not used!?
I assume the work need to have board with attached figures moved some how.
Because wood base and plastic figures ,unless surfaces is sanded and made surface more easy to glue to create a bond as Bill mentioned won’t work I guess.
Works fine for me for plastic to plastic, plastic to wood & plastic to metal. If you yank on it, it will come loose, but it’s fine for my diorama displays. Like I said, “Don’t know how “heavy duty” you need it.”
Great.I’m glad it does.
Another bond is liquid bond for stone and masonry x outside sold at Home depot-Lows, but trust me once you use chances are the figure base will get damage after when trying removing.
I’ll second the contact cement advice. I’ve done it with the Big Caesar project and it bonded fine getting the wooden masts and rat rig bases to attach to the plastic hulls. I think I used goop on one of the rat rig bases and it worked OK, too. Contact cement needs to be applied properly – both pieces, let get tacky, put together, but not real tightly.