do you guys prime everything? glue ?' as well

Also, glue should not touch paint.  To properly glue parts there should be no paint where the glue goes.

Dave

You're welcome Pats Fan!  I live in the woods but have a 5 ft. wide TV to watch the Patriots.  Why is it that all the hobby stores are either on the seacoast or in the southern part of the state?

Dave

I will prime if the color of the plastic is quite a bit different from the coat of paint.  I like to have as few coats of paint as possible especially when surface detail might suffer from sucessive coats. 

For glue I use Tenax or Ambroid plastic welder, but find Testors glue (black bottle, metal needle) better for some assemblies.  For large joints I often use 5-minute epoxy because it is quite strong.  For small details I'll often use CA glue but I try to avoid using it on joints that need to be strong as a CA bond tends to weaken over time. 

~Dave

Hi! Welcome to the forums!

I prime most (If there's a minor piece I add on after the main priming, I usualy just glue it on without priming it.. If it can wait, I usualy include it in the next primer time when I got more parts). As for what primer I use, I got some industrial type primer (Probably the same asautomotive primer) and they are way better than most of the hobby primers...

As for glue, I use Tamiya Extra Thin cement almost all the time. It also destroys the paint, but it's just to be careful where you apply it... And don't use much cement... I use very little, in fact..

That's my story... More will come I'm sure!

-Huxy