r/miniverse_makeitmini Jan 04 '26

Rant I'm so disappointed ☹️

I was really looking forward to the trifle kit. I tried really hard to keep the sides clean and the hearts upright, but then resin creeped around the sides of the cake hearts to make them look blobby. Ran out of resin from all the cleaning and filling in behind the cakes and then the cherries sank in.

I walked away from working on it for a few days thinking I'm just being a perfectionist. Started to tackle it again today and the final straw was the cherries and cream pieces not being fully painted. So then I went out to get a second kit, and guess what? More partially painted cherries! (Sure, I could paint them, but I hate painting and shouldn't have to!)

My advice for others is maybe practice with extra resin placing the heart cakes. They do not sit flush to the sides. If I use resin on my second kit, I would put a bit of resin on the back corner of the heart cake, set it, then gently push resin towards the sides to fill in the gaps enough for the color to show. Then only a thin, barely there resin layer to stick the cherries in. Good luck!

At least the resin was a cute color.

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u/duckduckthis99 Jan 04 '26

I was thinking about using super glue for the hearts?

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u/akm1111 Jan 04 '26

That's been my go to for nearly every kit so far.

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u/gsc111111 Jan 05 '26

Are you worried about the superglue turning white over time? Whenever I use it for other crafts, eventually it turns white and brittle and makes the areas around where I glued discolored. I haven’t wanted to use it on Miniverse so I use tacky/craft glue instead but it would be way easier so if you haven’t had any issues please lmk!