JinSaotome's Guide to Energy Effects: Hot-Glue and Your Figures!

Have you ever needed to make flames, blasts, or other energy effects? Here you can learn how! You can apply this technique to almost any action figures.

The trick to using this stuff is to put high-temperature glue through a low-temperature glue gun. I use Ad-Tech Ultimate Strength glue sticks after testing many brands. In this guide, we will be making energy effects such as flames with hot glue and re-sizing neck post holes to attach heads on. You can also use hot glue in place of epoxy when gluing two halves of a figure together. Ok, let's get started:



Here we will use hot glue to fit a head on to a ball post:


(Original source: Jin Saotome's guide to hotgluing your action figures)

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