How do I glue my Warewolve's head on?

[harvestmoon]

Hi mini-people.

I'm enjoying learning how to paint my BB team (I'm a novice painter). I find it very therapeutic!

I am however having troubles getting my Warewolf head to fit on properly and stay attached, and my opposition just does not seem to be intimidated by headless warewolves!

On the back of the head are two metal spikes that match two holes on the body. I can't get a good fit between the two - a gap seems inevitable on one side or the other. Am I supposed to just fill the gap with glue or somesuch?

What glue is recommended for metal-metal joining like this?

This glue works well for plastic bonding and I love accuracy of the needle spout, but it just doesn't seem to stick well with metal-metal:
Revell - Contacta Professional web-link

Any advice appreciated.
Thanks.

[Blitzwing]

Just use regular super glue for sticking metal to anything. If there is still a gap after the two parts have been stuck together use to green stuff to hide it.

Out of instrest what werewolf have you got? Not seen anyone that comes in two parts...

[longfang]

the new one does. and it's a crap head.

[grotuk]

Hi.

First, cut a part of the both pines (or spikes) and leave them smaller. Then glue to the body and finally, for a good result, fill the gap with gren stuff and with some sharp thing make little marks in the green stuff to simulate the wolves air.

[Darkson]

On a (semi-)related note, when glueing 2 pieces of metal together (or I suppose 2 plastics or metal & plastic) I've heard people suggest scoring the surfaces to increase the surface area.

Does this work? Maybe it's just my ineptitude, but it doesn't seem to make much difference to me.

[grotuk]

No idea, but it makes sense.

[kadu-c]

I use super glue for plastic minis and epoxy glue for metal ones.
Yes I'm the kind of man who uses a bazooka to kill a fly !

[honeycomb kid]

If you're using epoxy, it's not a bad idea to score the surface, but considering were talking about minis here and the deepest score marks you can make without damaging a model will probably be tiny, there's pretty much no use. With krazy glue, the two surfaces should fit together as smoothly as possible. Scoring weakens the joint. (I've tried it)

[harvestmoon]

Thanks all.

I'll invest in some new glue and green stuff.

Is this a suitable equivilent to green stuff?
Milliput - Silver Grey 2 Part Expoy Putty / Filler <web-link>

Cheers

[Underdog]

Milliput is what I used to use before green stuff became widely available. Although it does the same sort of job, milliput turns to sludge when you wet it excessively and can become messy and also as its quite gritty comepaired to greenstuff so detailed sculpting is more difficult. Id stick to green stuff if you can get it.

[JaM]

I've tried the "white" milliput, and that isnt so grainy... but it's far more clay-like then GS.

Pinning always works btw. Go to a model-shop and get 1 or 2 small handdrills. about 6-7 € each, and handy for having 1 with a 1 mm drill, and 1 with a 2 mm... Then again, I use them to drill out barrels for my 40K army, so it's handy for me.
Paperclips (small ones) generally have a thickness of 1 mm, so you can use those for pining. Close the gap when the glue is dry with GS.

[harvestmoon]

Thanks for all the advice. I have Green Stuff oozing via Royal Mail today, and warewolves with some seriously super-glued heads.

Buggered if I know how I'm going to paint the blighters though - my fat fingers have enough trouble with the relatively simple plastic human linesmen.

[Chairface]

I'm sure that you'll do a great job. Good luck with the project.