Paint/prep for resin kits?

brr, the workers' truant officer is on his way to pay you a visit.

You should get lots of advice re this subject.  The main thing about resin is to wash the parts with soap and water, then dry before doing any painting or gluing.  Acrylic paints do not adhere very well to resin.  To use acrylic paints, first spray the items with a primer - any brand will do.  Then acrylic paints will coat just fine.  As far as glue is concerned, I'll let the experts here chime in.  I have used Super Glue, white glue, and a few others with good results.

Good luck with your kits.

Bill

One thing to also do is to test fit every joint to get it good and tight - may take sanding and it might take a file in some cases, but getting good tight joints is key to assembling resin kits.

You can generally use medium viscosity CA or Gel CA variants; might plan on bracing interior corners to reinforce things unless you're doing interiors where that might compromise appearance.

I'll admit that I've never had to clean a resin kit yet, but then I almost always am using Floquil paints, too.

I've been told to soak the resin cast pieces in a good cleaner for an hour or so to remove any casting release agent from the resin, test fit all pieces- fill, sand, smooth any questionable areas, glue with CA{I like gap filling} or epoxy{longer the setting time, the better the grab}, then follow up with a coat of automotive primer and paint.

I've never cleaned them either. And I generally use cheap Walmart paints. Makes me wonder how that fallacy got started.

There are a lot of urban myths that get started by folks selling cleaners for their resin kits,

I very rarely use any mold release and even when I do, it's Testor's Gloss spray paint and then the casting comes out of the mold primed with that paint ready to go.

Alot of my resin kits were model cars and such...some tanks. I went by advise of the guys who made the majority of the things I bought- jim flintstone{custom car bodies}, modelhaus{old stock/custom kits}, motorcityresin{odd never made vehicles} and backyardshed{aussie trucks}....I went by what they suggested with their products, but your products and results may vary- so I'd suggest checking with the maker to see what they suggest- if anything. That usually works best....my thoughts were just what I know.