mike g. posted:p51 posted:
Great job Lee! How do you get them to stay standing?
Thanks!
I glued them to the top of the can.
Still, the aluminum can top doesn't accept glue very well. I used Gorilla Glue, the wood glue, to hold the figures down. One partially broke free from just the pressure of the brush against it. Even using super glue didn't work very well.
The only white paint I had was oil paint in a tube. I used that to mix various shades of blue for the engineer, and the conductor's tie. I had totally forgotten that oil paint takes forever to dry. The engineer figure, about 16 hours later, is just as tacky as it was when I painted it. It's going to be several days before I can do anything with that. Once it dries, though, I'm going to dab darker blue around the overalls, to make it look like areas have worn where they normally would, such as the seat, knees, and top edge.
