Basic Base Making Techniques… part 1
December 13, 2011 by elromanozo
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You use superglue !?!?! I’ve been using PVA glue … have I being doing it wrong? I have a bad feeling now.
no you can use super glue or pva, the only rule i would stick with is if your doing rocks use
yu hu, or some other contact adhesive.
BoW Justin
*looks nervously at Ogre with PVA-glued rocks stuck to base.*
I use PVA for anything up to a few mm diameter, larger than that and I find the PVA won’t stick without a sealing layer of PVA afterwards, which smooths the texture on some stones.
If PVA holds it on the base, then it’s the right glue for the job as far as I’m concerned.
I tend to superglue on the big bits, rocks and branches etc…
The use pva to flock, sand etc. Then finally go back to superglue for tuft.
romain likes bush! i use pva all the time, superglue tends to make everything harder and always darkens the colour of things :/ except when it comes to rocks, i mix pva and superglue into a paste so the rock stays in place better while it dries and makes it harder to fall off. saves buying loads of different glues aswell 🙂 !
I’m a PVA person, myself. I use superglue in rare instances, but PVA is so much easier to work with and less of a pain when it goes where you don’t want it. Particularly with sand and flock. I tend to spray prime my models after I have glued sand and rock/cork to the base and give it that trademark painted desert floor or mud floor look, adding bushes and grass flock as one of the final steps on the mini. These look quite nice unpainted, but I prefer the base to look a little simpler to match the painted… Read more »
I tend to use PVA myself for sand. But if I am gluing rocks or branches or the leaves from the basecraft kits then I use superglue. Much like tinracer above.
I use superglue for the rocks and other “hard” stuff on the base (Like when using the resin bits from Citadel Basing Kits, or rocks, wood, etc). I save PVA for the “softer” stuff on the base, like flock, sand, grass, snow and that kind of stuff. I also learned that sometimes putting a layer of watered down PVA over the already glued soft pieces can make it stick better and even give a nice finish. I do it mostly with sand.
PVA is fine, guys… I would use UHU, putty or Araldite (with caution) to stick the big things. But this is just for quick and dirty basing.
For a whole army, you’re not going to be very fancy…
Super glue is fine as long as you varnish it afterwards. PVA ages better.
BoW Romain