fingerprints

**dustey** · #1 09-19-2007, 09:51 PM

aaah seems no mater what i do i get a glue fingerprint on my models..........any sugestions?

**rickstef** · #2 09-19-2007, 09:58 PM

use little amounts of glue

wash your hands, keeps the glue from sticking to the dirt in your fingers

use tools to apply the glue, toothpicks, small brushes, old credit card, anything else you can think of

Hope those help

Rick

**dansls1** · #3 09-20-2007, 04:19 AM

And if none of those work, consider using latex gloves. I've never done it - but I know that some modelers in all mediums do it to keep fingerprints and oil / grease from their hands off their models.

**Johnny** · #4 09-20-2007, 04:44 AM

Use a syringe for applying the glue.Use a tip 0,5-0,8mm.The gluestains will be a lot less with that way to apply the glue.

**Lex** · #5 09-20-2007, 04:44 AM

Have a tissue at hand to wipe your hands clean each time you use glue ^^

**Phil** · #6 09-20-2007, 08:05 AM

Sometimes I will coat the entire model with watered down glue before assembly. This changes the color slightly and makes it more translucent, but you will see no evidence of fingerprints.

**dustey** · #7 09-20-2007, 08:08 AM

Thanl all for the great idea,s i will deffinatly refine my tecnique .. hugs

**Don Boose** · #8 09-20-2007, 11:10 AM

I was interested to hear Phil's suggestion of coating the model with thinned white glue. Some decades ago, when I was stationed in Monterey, California, I had the pleasure of running the Andrews Branch of John Allen's Gore and Daphetid HO railroad once a week. John used to paint his models with thinned white glue, weather them with chalk dust, then gently blow on the model through a wide straw. The moisture in his breath activated the glue and adhered the chalk dust to the model.

I frequently do this with non-paper models. Never did it with paper models, but might give it a try.

Don B. (PS: I turned 67 today)

**BARX2** · #9 09-21-2007, 09:40 AM

I spray all my models with Krylon clear acrylic paint before cutting and gluing. I use Tombow Mono Aqua glue and keep a Q-tip handy while building. If I get excess glue or a fingerprint on a part, I moisten the tip of the Q-tip and rub the glue off before it's dry - it even works after the glue is dry, but takes more rubbing. This glue is very forgiving and also dries very clear. The Krylon seals the ink on the paper and makes it somewhat waterproof, so the ink doesn't run when I wipe it with the Q-tip.

**dustey** · #10 09-21-2007, 09:52 AM

ooh awsome idea i thought of that but not till the model was completed.
Ive gotten alot of good idea,s from you all. thank you all so much