Gluing, Sealing, and Painting

Especially regarding the gluing or bonding of wooden parts in ships or airplanes, one constantly hears hair-raising stories, but there is only one correct answer: wood glue (white glue). Anything else is just a waste of money and has no place in proper models.
Here, one should trust the leading manufacturers and preferably use a waterproof white glue, such as Bindan D3 Propeller Glue or Ponal Express.

A quick tip: Get your supply of glue before winter. The delivery of these glues is no longer possible at temperatures below 0° Celsius, as they could otherwise be damaged.

These glues have the advantage that they can simply be diluted with water for certain applications and thus dosed better. Excess glue can be easily removed with water as long as it has not dried.
Unfortunately, white glue takes about 12 hours to cure, and sometimes there are tricky spots to glue that cannot be permanently held or fixed. In such cases, we use superglue to initially fix the parts with small dots, and then fill the gluing surfaces with diluted white glue.
Medical syringes with 1.2 mm needles are excellently suited for this.

For hulls, especially in ship model building, which are built using frame construction, one wants to achieve high stability. Often, the gluing surfaces are not optimal here due to the many curved surfaces. It is recommended to subsequently coat the entire hull with thick resin. This fills any cavities and thus glues the complete hull into a single unit.
For this, we use a 40-minute resin, which can be thickened with a thixotropic agent as needed.
If additional stability is required in some places, it is possible to fill these in advance with the resin thickened by cotton flocks. This is particularly helpful in the bow area or for motor mounts.