Parts Mounting Tips (for painting)

[JollySipper]

Hey, Fellas.... I thought it would be a neat idea to start a thread devoted to tips for mounting parts for painting. Everyone has their own methods, so it would be cool for you guys to post some ideas for this. Here's a trick I use a bunch...... I glue larger small parts to a clothes pin with Testors orange tube glue. Then I can clip the pin onto something, usually a flap from a shipping box. Once the part is painted, the glue breaks free pretty easily because it can't weld plastic to wood.....

So feel free to add to this any tips you have that maybe noone else thought of......

[yh70]

9 minutes ago, JollySipper said:

Hey, Fellas.... I thought it would be a neat idea to start a thread devoted to tips for mounting parts for painting. Everyone has their own methods, so it would be cool for you guys to post some ideas for this. Here's a trick I use a bunch...... I glue larger small parts to a clothes pin with Testors orange tube glue. Then I can clip the pin onto something, usually a flap from a shipping box. Once the part is painted, the glue breaks free pretty easily because it can't weld plastic to wood.....

So feel free to add to this any tips you have that maybe noone else thought of......

TJ get u a cheap hot glue gun at Walmart.. i think u would like it way more than the testors glue.. my tip for u is get u some alligator clips and some  Bamboo Skewers (shish kabob sticks they cheap) ..crimp the clips to the skewers then get u a 2x6 piece of Styrofoam and glue it to a board.. this gives u a base to stick the painted parts in till dry..

[NOBLNG]

45 minutes ago, yh70 said:

TJ get u a cheap hot glue gun at Walmart.. i think u would like it way more than the testors glue.. my tip for u is get u some alligator clips and some  Bamboo Skewers (shish kabob sticks they cheap) ..crimp the clips to the skewers then get u a 2x6 piece of Styrofoam and glue it to a board.. this gives u a base to stick the painted parts in till dry..

I’ll have to try the hot glue. I’ve been using CA. I made a few of these out of corrugated cardboard to hold my alligator clips.

 

Edited April 28, 2020 by NOBLNG

[Tom Geiger]

I clean up and spray everything. I never spray or paint parts on sprue and I try not to brush anything.

I also pin much of everything in my building. If there’s little plastic mounting nubs, I’ll sand the area flat, drill and insert metal straight pins.

I use those little bathroom paper cups for a lot of things in the model room. I’ll sort parts into them, if I’m going to touch up something with a brush or detail paint, I spray the paint into a cup. Note- I use the paper cups, plastic ones melt with paints.

The cups become nice little spray stands, as in my first photo. Most parts get mounted on toothpicks or pins and then stuck into the cup. I will also use painters blue tape to tape parts to the cups too.  If a part seems top heavy, I’ll stack a few cups together to add base weight.

Generally a small part like a carburetor or master cylinder gets drilled and pinned. I will leave the full length of the pin on it for handling and mounting for painting. I cut them to length when I’m ready to assemble. 

Below photo just illustrates how pins are used and the standard wire cutter that easily cuts them. I have a small battery powered drill.

The cups get reused until they get ratty, then tossed. I ran out of new ones and haven’t been able to find any since the lockdown so cups will be getting really ratty!

Edited April 29, 2020 by Tom Geiger

[peteski]

Instead of glue, I mount many of the parts to be painted using an adhesive tape. Specifically 3M Clear Mounting Tape

Edited April 29, 2020 by peteski

[Deuces ll]

Some cool ideas here guys.... Thank you!... ?

[jaymcminn]

On 4/28/2020 at 7:32 PM, NOBLNG said:

I’ll have to try the hot glue. I’ve been using CA. I made a few of these out of corrugated cardboard to hold my alligator clips.

 

The corrugated cardboard idea is genius... a cheap cat scratcher would work great for this. I've been using florist foam for mounting toothpicks and craft sticks but it produces dust. Going to give this a shot!

[NOBLNG]

2 minutes ago, jaymcminn said:

The corrugated cardboard idea is genius... a cheap cat scratcher would work great for this. I've been using florist foam for mounting toothpicks and craft sticks but it produces dust. Going to give this a shot!

Make sure it doesn’t have catnip in it! These ones I made are about 4” square and I can put a few of them in my dehydrator.