Nighthaunts - Filling Gaps

I decided to finally take the plunge into Age of Sigmar and picked up the Soul Wars boxed set, primarily for the Nighthaunts. As always with a new army, experiments!

There are some fairly nasty gaps on the Nighthaunt models, many of them running straight through cloth, a material that doesn’t hide gaps well. Previously I’ve used green stuff, liquid green stuff, and Vallejo’s filler putty. Those are all a bit messy, troublesome, and give mixed results, so I decided to try simply using glue.

For these experiments I’ll be using GW’s super glue and Zap-a-gap, which you can find in all kinds of places like art and hobby stores.

Above is an example of one of the gaps before I started.

A pretty nasty one, and not atypical of a lot of the Nighthaunt models. My plan is to fill these gaps with glue, wait overnight for them to dry thoroughly, then scrape the area to smooth and blend the plastic and glue together.

Here’s a few shots after I finished.

I know it’s hard to see how these turned out. The glue is clear, and the areas look pretty messy, but they were smooth to the touch. Here’s a few shots of them after priming them.

White makes imperfections really stand out, so you can still see the seam in these pictures, but it’s subtle. As good as most of the results I’ve had with other mediums. You can work really hard on green stuff and get it perfect, but even so I’ve had many times where I thought the green stuff was seamless, only to undercoat and see rough texture left behind.

Not all my results looked like the ones above. I had a couple that were perfect, and a couple that were less than perfect.

This is one of the ones that turned out less than ideal. The seam is pretty noticeable, and you can also see some sediment left behind from the scraping. I was able to clean that up, but I left the seam as is. When I show my paint tests it will show that they aren’t really visible given that I paint that part of the model in dark colors.

I ‘think’ Zap-a-gap performed better than plastic glue, but not by much. If I can this is the method I’m using from now on to deal with gaps. It’s much easier medium to deal with, faster, and the results were good enough. I’d still use green stuff on a really bad seam in a place that was going to be painted a light color, but that’s about it.