Plastic glue over GW paints?

[Token]

So, I started painting a dreadnought, Ballistus, but then I thought it would be cool with some fantasy Dwarf shields on it, to viking it up, does plastic glue work through the paint or should the paint be removed?

[crimsondave]

Whenever I’ve decided to glue something onto paint I’ve used superglue 

[Grotsmasha]

Plastic glue will melt the paint, but the melted paint will interfere with the adhesion. I recommend gently scraping the paint off with your haobby knife at your attachment points and gluing plastic to plastic.

Super Glue will work fine in most cases, but you will be gluing the shield to the paint, not model to model, hich makes the long-term bond weaker.

[Token]

Thanks people.

[crimsondave]

3 minutes ago, Grotsmasha said:

Plastic glue will melt the paint, but the melted paint will interfere with the adhesion. I recommend gently scraping the paint off with your haobby knife at your attachment points and gluing plastic to plastic.

Super Glue will work fine in most cases, but you will be gluing the shield to the paint, not model to model, hich makes the long-term bond weaker.

Absolutely right about supergluing to the paint and I should have mentioned that.  It will work.  I’ve done it more than once.  However, as Grotsmasha said, it will not be as strong of a bond.  If you drop it or bump it you may be doing repair work.  I have started pinning most things I superglue and would recommend it if it’s possible.  Something like a shield is most likely too thin though.

[Ace Debonair]

As somebody who habitually gets really obsessive about it and paints literally every part of a model before I stick any of it together I can say, with the absolute certainty of someone who's done it this way for twenty years(!), that plastic glue works work just fine over paint. 

 

I can also say from plentiful experience that the glue does hold on a bit better over time if the paint in question is either really, really thin (like contrast paint) or scraped/filed/scrubbed away, but it's not 100% essential to make the parts stick. 

 

Oh, Unless any of the bits involved are resin, in which case superglue is definitely your friend, and ALWAYS dry fit parts first because superglue doesn't give second chances 

[Sky Potato]

8 hours ago, Grotsmasha said:

Plastic glue will melt the paint, but the melted paint will interfere with the adhesion. I recommend gently scraping the paint off with your haobby knife at your attachment points and gluing plastic to plastic.

Super Glue will work fine in most cases, but you will be gluing the shield to the paint, not model to model, hich makes the long-term bond weaker.

 

Unless you use the Tamiya extra thin cement - my experience is that the bond from gluing two painted surfaces together using Tamiya extra thin to be very very strong.