How To Glue Anime Figures Back On

How to Ready Anime Figures

A growing number of our anime figures were in need of a infirmary visit, from falling off shelves and being accidentally knocked over, oops! Equally a lot of you lot are anime and manga fans, I wanted to share with you how to fix your anime figures. I promise you discover it helpful!

Which Type of Glue to Use

Having heard horror stories most gum guns melting legs etc, I headed to a local model shop, where they sell Airfix kits, remote control helicopters, Warhammer figures and suchlike. The guys in there were really helpful, and gave a big speech almost different types of plastic and gum.

The figures that I needed to mend were mostly anime figures from claw machines in Tokyo (I wasn't skillful enough to win them – they were from a shop round the corner!) and also a couple of smaller figures, a nendoroid and a plastic dinosaur whose tail had snapped off! Poor Akemi Homura, from Puella Magi Madoka Magica had a snapped bow, an extremely small area to glue:

Akemi Homura Anime Figure

The shop assistant advised me that some glues volition melt the plastic and bond it together, and others will stick them together. I take no thought what type of plastic they're made of, and so he recommended a multi-purpose sticking type gum chosen Zap-a-Gap.

Zap-a-Gap-glue

Information technology toll about £4 and did a fantastic chore of fixing all the figures, anime and not-anime. Yous apply the mucilage with the thin nozzle, agree the two pieces together for a few seconds, then leave to dry. The bring together is very stiff – the dinosaur tin can fifty-fifty be picked up by the stop of his tail (and he's a diplodocus).

Mio from K-On Anime Figure

Even Mio from K-On's broken ankle is fixed – a bring together that has a lot of force per unit area as she's joined to her base of operations by only ane pes – a rather impractical design (but she looks practiced!). (This one looks a little bit messy from previous attempts at fixing her).

I hope yous find this helpful for fixing anime figures – please share with the buttons beneath if your friends' figures are too in demand of a hospital visit.

Buying Figures in Akihabara

Many of my figures are from Akihabara in Tokyo. Here are my tips for anime effigy hunting – if you lot're interested in Japan there are lots more Tokyo vlogs and travel guides on my YouTube aqueduct.