Fill me in...

[Steve J]

At work I use fine car body filler, which is a cellulose based and air drying. At home either Blu-Tac or fine household wall filler. To be honest in 10mm all of these work, it really depends upon on what I have at hand when working.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You looking at my pint? You spill my bird?
Pretty sure this is how the Forum barfight started!

[Techno]

I see you now get Green Stuff in strips called 'Kneadatite' - I'm probably years out of date, never seen that before. Is that good stuff? How much of the length do you use - say, what length equates to the mass of a whole 10mm figure? I'm not about to sculpt a whole 10mm figure, but it's a handy measure. I see a lot of people selling 12" lengths on eBay, which doesn't sound like much.
Doesn't it start curing/hardening where the two substances meet in the middle of the 'tape'?

The stuff I use for the wee men (Which I get from Sylmasta) has a label "Green stuff...Origial Duro."

But I've heard of the same thing being 'classed' as Kneadatite.
As far as I'm aware, it's exactly the same stuff, Wulf.

The mass of a 10mm figure ?......Really probably less than 2mm.......BUT......You'd probably end up using 10mm or more, 'cos you have to keep mixing 'fresher' stuff, especially at this scale.
I reckon I chuck away anything up to 90% of putty I've mixed, as it's started to 'go off' enough to make it somewhat iffy to use....AT THIS SCALE.

Yes...where the blue and yellow do start hardening where they meet.
I simply 'nick' that tiny middle bit out, with a scalpel, and mix what's left.

Hope that helps.

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

The fish ain't biting, Will.

[Wulf]

Right, all good stuff, folks, I'll get me a 6" roll so it doesn't go off.

And the subject line? All my posts have a subject line contrived to draw attention...  

[Tawa]

Fill me in is not a request one should make in the UK. It could result in hospitalisation.

Indeed.

Having read some of the replies I shall go and put the cricket bat and knuckle dusters back in the car....... 

[Techno]

Right, all good stuff, folks, I'll get me a 6" roll so it doesn't go off.

Sadly, Wulf, it depends how long the putty has been 'on the shelf', before you buy it.

Cheers - Phil

[Wulf]

Yes, I guess that's a bigger problem with this stuff than the sealed Milliput boxes.

[Techno]

What can happen, with a really old batch, is........

The yellow section gets a waxy (almost like a gloss varnish) layer on it.
This is almost impossible to mix in properly, soooooo.....when you have finished mixing it..there are a load of tiny, little yellow 'lumps' in the putty.

If you're using it simply to stick bits together...or do a one off conversion, there shouldn't be a problem....They shouldn't hurt. at all.

However, if (anyone) I make(s) a master that gets pressed in the mould, under a lot of pressure, using some old g/s.....It can really wreck the finished article, because the yellow 'bit's' are effectively still soft, and don't make a clean impression

Basically, a really 'spotty'/'pitted' master metal.

Hope that makes sense ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Wulf]

Perfectly - that's what's happening with my Milliput!

[FierceKitty]

And my epoxy putty.

[Leman]

If my son ever catches sight of this thread he will read it out loud in a south east England, nasal, nerdy voice ......... and then piss himself laughing.

[FierceKitty]

No respect....

[Subedai]

If my son ever catches sight of this thread he will read it out loud in a south east England, nasal, nerdy voice ......... and then piss himself laughing.

What! Sirrah, why do you impugn the most excellent dialect of the south-east in such a fashion? I'll have you know there are a great number of dialects in this neck of the woods and only the type that get on tv with that Mr Kyle or as an advert for all things Essex have the extremely dubious honour of being both nasal and nerdy in equal parts. (A lot of the others are just a variation of English as is spoken by our European brethren, while there are a few of us still flying the flag!)

On a more humorous note, I read the other day that Chris Eubanks is writing a book on Ethics and if it sells he is going to follow it with a book on Kent.

I know where me coat is, don't bother telling me.