I know I’ve whined about searching for latex acrylic adhesive caulk here before, but once I found it, I’ve not only used it for gluing roadbed and track, I’ve used it for:
Gluing pieces of foam
Gluing styrene to foam (as for the walls of my concrete flood control channel)
Gluing metal weights to the floors of my intermodal containers (and if I don’t want the weights there anymore, not a problem!)
Fastening down structures (I haven’t done this yet but I can’t see why not).
I think latex adhesive caulk is the Goo of the 21st century! I remember seeing slathers of Goo all over the bottoms of used structure models. This one does the job with no mess, no fumes and is easily removable!
I hope we don’t have to answer your question with a complete answer. BUT, with you I celebrate what it will do all the time. The only thing it does not do for me is glue stacks of foam for mountains with enough speed. When the stacks get 6 to 8 pieces high then then to slip around too much. I still use low temp hot melt for terraforming.
I too bow down in worship at the mighty tube of latex acrylic adhesive caulk, It is truly a modern marvel and not just for model railroading, believe it or not you can use this stuff all around the house![bow][:O]
You all are really scaring me… you remind me of the humans from the future in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (revealing your innermost selves to the Holy Caulk)… but, yes… you CAN use it to attach buildings. I used it to attach my New River Mining Co. to my layout.
Just this afternoon I erected one of those weather stations on my roof, but the pitch prevented me from anchoring the rain gauge nearby. So, I used a corner of our deck, behind glass sheets in the railing for shelter from the wind, and since the deck is covered with a memberane, I used Bill’s El Cheapo Latex Caulk to adhere the base of the gauge to the deck.