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Plastic filler

Started by Barney, February 27, 2015, 01:48:12 PM

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Barney

Any one got any thoughts /recommendations on a good plastic filler  - I'v tried Revell plastic filler but it keeps falling out !! and the fumes send me loopy - and I'v used Miliput fine but it seems a bit course - or am I doing something wrong
Barney   

5thwheel

I have had good luck with superglue and baking soda.
Bill Hudson
Fall down nine times,
get up ten.

voyager

Andrew

If it has wheels, I'll have a look!

Gordon Ferguson

Oh I Have told how good the deluxe stuff is before, but he never listens to me !!  ;D


Anyway he supposed to be a gold standard modeller , what's he need filler for anyway  ;)
Gordon

voyager

Andrew

If it has wheels, I'll have a look!

mabloodhound

What about that Bondic UV cured stuff that was talked about?
Dave Mason
D&GRR (Dunstead & Granford) in On30
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Lawton Maner

I've used 3M auto body filler since I was in college during the Dark Ages and it works well and a single tube lasts a lifetime.

Mobilgas

Any place in the US that sell's deluxe?
Craig

billmart

Craig -

Fingertip Fantasies Dollhouse Miniatures  http://www.dollhouseminiatures.com/supplies/DeluxeMaterials.htm  sells it online.  I'm going to order some this week.

Bill Martinsen

Mobilgas

Bill,     Thanks  ;D     ill call them this week and put my order in.
Craig

Barney

Thanks to you all for some ideas
Barney

SDFarmer

In a former life I used a 3M finishing putty called "Bondo Glazing and Spot Putty #907." It's made to fill pinholes, scratches, working marks in "Bondo." Probably what Lawton was talking about. It sells for anywhere from $3.17 to $12.11 a 4.5 oz tube. I found it for $3.17 at a local-ish chain called Menards (central/Midwestern U.S.) (no online sales).

The Deluxe Materials, Perfect Plastic Putty has sold me with their video... sells for about $15 delivered for 1.35 oz of water soluble putty. hmmm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=stLzShlnrEk

Lawton Maner

That's it. 

I bought my tube generations ago, put s bit in an empty Testor's liquid cement bottle and about twice a year add more and every month or so add a tiny splash of MEK to keep it liquid.  I have a second bottle which has been thinned and use a round toothpick to place TINY amounts in defects.  Wait 24 hours and then sand carefully with wet/dry sandpaper which was originally intended to polish Jet canopies and now is sold to polish headlight covers.

The fewer times you open the stock tube, the longer it lasts.  And, if you store it in a mason jar,the risk of drying out drops through the floor.

Mobilgas

Got my Perfect plastic putty and the pin point gluing accessories today in the mail. ;D  Have to give it a try when I get OUT of this modeling SLUMP...I'm in... >:(
Craig