Glue...

[Stikpusher]

You guys need a good government job with union rules and regulations...

[BlackSheep214]

Heh - My wife and I both work for the county (29 and 28 years of service this year respectively) and have a union.

[Stuart]

Nice to see these. I also have a tube of Pactra glue that is still good. I always liked those tiny tubes they included in some kits; sometimes that glue worked better than the Testor's at times!

Bruce I still do use Testor's orange tube glue on my builds. It is great for many of the larger assemblies where a lot of glue is needed over long seams on a large multi-engined aircraft fuselage for instance. I also use it on many of my aircraft carrier models to cement the flight deck down to the hull. I'll even use it to fasten the upper hull of my armor models to the lower hulls. So yeah, I still use it. I like the slower set time and ability to adjust placement as well. I also tend to stun many people who watch me as I apply it directly from the tube instead of squeezing it out and applying with a toothpick or something similar.

No Toothpick!!?!?! Noooo!

Same here Duke - I apply directly from the tube as well (sometimes).

TBH I still think tube glue has a place, having gone back to it after ditching those bloody awful 'precision' bottles. Oh how I HATE those stupid metal tubes! I use tubes all the time now, sometimes applied with a toothpick or not, and often with Tamiya extra thin. The SR.53 I'm building has been all tube thus far. One advantage it has IMHO when building older or limited run kits is it's ability to fill gaps that I'd otherwise have to fill if I used extra thin.

Cheers

Stuart