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Title: Plastic filler
Post by: Barney on February 27, 2015, 01:48:12 PM
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   
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: 5thwheel on February 27, 2015, 02:09:25 PM
I have had good luck with superglue and baking soda.
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: voyager on February 28, 2015, 12:21:47 PM
My current favourite, very fine, quick drying, good adhesion, easy sanding

https://www.deluxematerials.co.uk/gb/scale-plastics/87-perfect-plastic-putty-5060243901095.html
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: Gordon Ferguson on February 28, 2015, 02:27:44 PM
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  ;)
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: voyager on February 28, 2015, 02:49:51 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: mabloodhound on March 01, 2015, 08:34:00 AM
What about that Bondic UV cured stuff that was talked about?
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: Lawton Maner on March 01, 2015, 10:55:01 AM
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.
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: Mobilgas on March 01, 2015, 08:11:28 PM
Any place in the US that sell's deluxe?
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: billmart on March 01, 2015, 08:35:40 PM
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
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: Mobilgas on March 02, 2015, 08:00:58 AM
Bill,     Thanks  ;D     ill call them this week and put my order in.
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: Barney on March 04, 2015, 11:09:08 AM
Thanks to you all for some ideas
Barney
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: SDFarmer on March 07, 2015, 03:27:43 PM
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
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: Lawton Maner on March 08, 2015, 11:22:10 AM
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.
Title: Re: Plastic filler
Post by: Mobilgas on March 11, 2015, 12:36:41 PM
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... >:(
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