I'm coming to the end of my current supply of super glue and I've been tralling through an endless supply of replacements on eBay. To me super glue is, well, super glue. But the sellers would argue otherwise, with differing viscosities, levels of professionalism, not to mention weight and price.

At the moment I'm happy to pay the least, to get the most (being a Yorshireman). Is it just super glue, or am I missing something? Does anyone a great place to get a great deal?

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Umm.. Some things should not be made too complicated. I have glued miniatures for almost 25 years and used many brands of SG. I have never seen or experienced a difference in them. Miniatures in this scale are light so they dont need any fancy epoxies etc.

I use loctite brand, something that I get from my local supermarket and it works like a charm. One thing I appreciate in the glue is a long nozzle and as thin as possible to get the glue in place accurately.

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The whole varying viscosity is a useful deal and have different properties and uses I find. For instance I use JetGlu instant jet when adding "spot welds" for lack of a better term to joints that need extra support once pinned and glued during assembly. It also has the added benefit of flowing like water over surfaces and down along joints and corners via capillary action, something impossible with thicker more viscous glues. In addition it doesn't obscure details when it dries. However needing to perform the initial gluing I like slow drying thick glue (in my case Slowjet) as I can make adjustments to get it correctly seated or correct mistakes made when initially placing it. For example, I can glue a strip stand of infantry to the base and go, "you know what? I want to turn that guy to the right and swap the two guys on the ends" and can without any trouble.

like all things YMMV and what one person likes another well may detest. I've been using glues like that since the 80's and could not imagine living without them. You probably would not imagine living with them. Regardless, do go with a high quality glue for your hard worked on projects. Nothing worse.than having glue fail on something you've worked so hard on. Real life example: I have an original Captial Imperialis from 1st edition (what is that? 1991?). It has survived dozens of moves, some across continents, and plenty of man handling. Other items of similar size I've had literally fall apart in a game from poor quality glues (in this case GW super-crap).

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I use both the Gel and Standard viscosity ... based on the models ...

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You should be very difficult with the varying viscosities. I posted this in the past, but years ago I sculpted a perfect face and head for a Necron C'tan (The Deceiver). I merely had to glue on a strip of cloth to his body and be done with him. I grabbed the wrong glue (gap filler, very runny) and put a tiny drop on the body of the model. The glue ran UP the model, right to the end, and encapsulated all of my work. It made the Deceiver look like Ball Head. I was furious!

When working with itty bitty bits, use high viscosity.

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I received the glue I ordered and thought I would share a little report. I got regular super glue and high viscosity super glue, both in 50 gram bottles. Firstly the larger bottle size means that you get more glue for you money, I also find them easier to handle.

I've been really impressed by the high viscosity super glue. I've found that the extra viscosity helps to hold metal parts together(while setting), meaning I don't have to hold/clamp/mess about after gluing. Also it's extremely strong. For my flying minis I drill a hole in the base and attach a paper clip 'flight stand', this is initially temporary to aid painting, a flight stand/base being permanently glued on later. These usually come unstuck during the painting process. The new High Viscosity stuff is so strong that when I tried to remove the paper clip, it snapped and I had to re drill a new hole. I can therefore highly recommend the high viscosity super glue.

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Hi!

This.

I see no "superior" choice, but a long thin nozzle as mentioned.

After 25 of gluing epic stuff, I view no brand as the best.

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