Layman's Gunpla Guide - Miscellaneous Tricks & Tips
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Here are some random tricks and tips that have proved useful during my builds.
Tighten Loose Joints with Super Glue - An inevitability with gunpla are loose joints. Be it from age, poor engineering, or a lack of polycaps (I'm looking at you, F91 era kits).
To help tighten things up just pull the piece out, apply a little bit of glue to one part of the connection, and let dry. DO NOT GLUE THE PIECES TOGETHER! Once the glue has dried you'll find a much tighter fit on the joint. If it's not yet tight enough apply more coatings as desired.
A word of warning, too much glue can make for a very tight joint. Sometimes it can be difficult to fit the connection if you've applied too much glue.
Mask Thruster with Putty - Did you pick up poster putty for painting? If so, you can use a ball of putty to mask the inside of a thruster while painting the outside.
Paint the inside of a thruster your desired color. After it's dried ball up some putty and place it in the thruster to the edge where you want a color barrier (ie the end of the thruster). Then paint the thruster as a whole, removing the putty once complete.
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Have any other nifty tricks or tips I may have missed or don't know about? Let me know!
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Use paper glue instead
Hey Falldog, nice guides you have here. I'd want to add something on how to tighten loose joints here. Try using clear paper glue instead of super glue. I've tried using super glue gazillion time on my HGUC Kshatriya broken waist nub and HGUC Sazabi loose hip to no avail.
One time I tried gluing my old Kotobukiya Huckebein Boxer part using a clear paper glue, it turns out that the glue creates some sort of thin film that easily contours the surface of the plastic. For quite sometimes now I use thin sheet of tissue paper to tighten loose joints, but now I'm using this clear paper glue all the time. Just apply it to loose joints, stick it, wait for a night and gently rotate/move the joints to loosen them up.
Bandai's MG F91 kit that I owned for 3 years still has its joints relatively tight. Any loose one namely the right upper arm and both of the bottom thigh parts, I gave them this clear paper glue treatment and it felt like brand new.
When you say clear paper
When you say clear paper glue, give me an example specifically. Like rubber cement for Elmer's? I'm not sure what that is lol
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