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Sticking toys to acrylics

Chumf

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Hi All, what’s the go to method of sticking toys to games? - the figures I have for my JJP Avatar LE have very thin legs so I’m not quite sure what the best way of sticking them to the game is. Preferably I would like it to be reversible. Where it is to be placed I can’t use cable ties either.

Cheers,
Chris
 
I use nano tape like below:

Plus one for Nano tape 👍. Used it to hold Mecha Godzilla in place and in theory it is reversible with no mess.
 
Do you think this tape would work on small “feet” imagine a toy horse with tiny hooves. I would want to cut them small so the tape is invisible but worried it wouldn’t stick due to not much surface area
 
You can get foam of various thicknesses , I’ve stuck a metal heavy object to my motorcycle front fender and it stick really well , it’s not coming off so yes think with the right stuff u will be ok
 
I contacted JJP asking if I could purchase replacement plastics which I would like to stick the figurines onto but they said until production has ended they don’t sell the spares.. a little frustrating as I don’t really want to fix anything permanently on the originals.

I’ll give the nano tape a go, by the sounds of it it’s similar to the sicky 3m pads I’ve already used on a larger figurine but I know the pads I have when cut down wouldn’t have enough hold.

I was also thinking perhaps super gluing the figurine to some sort of flat coin which matches up somewhat with the acrylics design to then allow me to stick with greater surface area.. but apart from Warhammer figurine bases I’m not sure what else I could use.
 
Do you think this tape would work on small “feet” imagine a toy horse with tiny hooves. I would want to cut them small so the tape is invisible but worried it wouldn’t stick due to not much surface area
Might be an issue with not much surface area, but it's cheap enough to try, and you'll no doubt find other uses for it.

The science behind it;

Nano tape, also called gecko tape (or commercially as Insanity Tape or Alien Tape) is a synthetic adhesive tape consisting of arrays of carbon nanotubes transferred onto a backing material of flexible polymer tape. These arrays are called synthetic setae and mimic the nanostructures found on the toes of a gecko; this is an example of biomimicry. The adhesion is achieved not with chemical adhesives, but via van der Waals forces, which are weak electric forces generated between two atoms or molecules that are very close to each other.
 
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