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Glues & Adhesives

The most beatable search result of the ten shelves surveyed, and the one where the buyer question is genuinely misunderstood. Plastic cement is not glue at all — it is a solvent that melts two pieces of polystyrene into one, which is why it welds a Citadel or Tamiya sprue beautifully and does absolutely nothing to resin, metal or a 3D print. Superglue holds those. PVA holds sand and flock to a base and nothing structural. Buying the wrong one is the commonest first-model mistake in the hobby.

The Honest Verdict

Cheapest shelf here by some distance, and the one most worth getting right: match the glue to the material and almost every joint problem disappears. Thin cements flow into a closed seam by capillary action and are the ones experienced modellers reach for; thick tube cement is for gap-filling, not for detail.

On This Shelf

155 products read and admitted so far - 20 brands, filterable below. More are mined and waiting to be judged.

Brand
155 of 155 products
Army Painter Battlefields Basing Glue
Army Painter Battlefields Basing Glue

PVA-type basing adhesive for sand, grit, flock and tufts

Army Painter

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The Army Painter Super Glue
The Army Painter Super Glue

Medium-thickness cyanoacrylate with a precision tip, 24g

Army Painter

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