How to glue and paint plastic to plywood

epoxy. that falcon plastic glued to the wood is not styrene btw.
Bjorn's post for the win.
this thread actually evolved into a mix of usefull things, when i have a question i can do it here
* i saw in a u tube video, that vallejo putty can be easily removed with a wet(water) q tip - need to try that
* in a diffrent u tube video i saw that superglue stains can be easily removed with a "debonder" - need to buy and test it

by the way, the plastic form the falcon in the first post is probalby some acrylic, it was just there as a symbol picture, if it was styrene, you could not see the wood below ;)
 
i dont want to start a new thread, but how can i glue a thin styrene sheet on to an aluminium sheet, of 2 ft times 1ft
normaly i would take "super glue" but how do i apply it evenly across the whole sheet?
Maybe an unconventional option, but I've had some luck with thermoplastic polyurethane films for safety glazing for this purpose. Some of them stick to virtually anything and they're easy to apply over a large surface. If it's flat, a heated press is definitely the best option by a long shot, but you can also get it hot enough with a hot plate, hair dryer, infrared lamp, clothes iron, etc. EVA (same stuff hot snot glue is made from) films also exist and are also a nice option, though they didn't work as well with copper for me, so I suspect it might also lead to problems with aluminium.

Yes, the solvents can cause thinner materials to warp.
Simply bonding over larger areas will cause things to warp as well, even if it's thicker material, we've had a lot of headaches with this at work. A good trick around it is to simply make it symmetrical by bonding to both sides. Might seem like a waste of material but it's the quickest and often cheapest way to get around the issue.
 
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