discussion Filler Putty

[Guest]

Got hold of a tube of Vallejo Filler Putty.

Used a number of fillers & none have I found to be brilliant. This is the best so far by far.

Comes in a tube with a long nozzle. This gives out a strip about a 1mm wide depends how quickly you move along the piece to be filled. It is very soft & very fine.

Easy to fire into a gap or wing joint for instance. Then easy, using a small spatular, to press into the joint. Finish smooth with kitchen roll or the finger. Sticks well to skin. Dry in about 30 mins or less depending on the ambient temperature.

Drys hard but with easy manipulation. Easy to sand & when applied as above not much sanding & in a lot of cases needs no extra work. Does not flake & sticks like glue. Sands to a very thin finish. Providing it has not set to much Vallejo Air Brush cleaner will clean up & further smooth. If you use it make sure you clean tools as it sticks to anything.

As far as I can see it does not soften with water or the Air Brush cleaner.

Laurie

 

[yak face]

Great review laurie, sounds like ill have to get some of this stuff. I wonder if John can get it in the Scale-Models shop? tony

 

[John]

I don't think there is a Vallejo product I don`t stock

Plastic Putty (Tube) 20 ml Vallejo VAL401 - ScaleModelShop

 

[yak face]

Hi john, i looked on the shop but couldnt see it ,i must have missed it. By the way that link is a bit weird!! You click on it and it takes you to channel4's website!!! cheers tony

 

[John]

I've updated the link, I posted it while using my new tablet and it doesn't always seem to do what I want it to

 

[Guest]

Hi Laurie i like the sound of that ,so i will have to get a tube to try it.

scott

 

[Guest]

i think what is really sad on this thread is that some point john was looking at the channel four website :grinball2:

 

[John]

i think what is really sad on this thread is that some point john was looking at the channel four website :grinball2:

I was watching come dine with me that might have had something to do with it, last week I was watching the gadget show and thought I would enter the competition for only £1.50 + standard network message cost I sent the text then realised I was watching catch-up and it ended 2 weeks previous, doh!!

 

[Guest]

I was watching come dine with me that might have had something to do with it, last week I was watching the gadget show and thought I would enter the competition for only £1.50 + standard network message cost I sent the text then realised I was watching catch-up and it ended 2 weeks previous, doh!!

What is more sad, John, was that you were watching "Come Dine with me".

Only nuts like me are subjected by their wives to watching the most bizarre programe on television about the most bizarre people in Britain cooking, at least most of the time, rubbish. Although to hear an Englishman pronounce "Fruit de Mer" in English recently was comic.

Laurie

 

[Guest]

should be renamed to "come whine with me"

 

[Guest]

It's a funny old game, I found Vallejo filler to be a bit powdery, like polyfilla

 

[Guest]

It's a funny old game, I found Vallejo filler to be a bit powdery, like polyfilla

Interesting as I looked at other opinions on other forums a little whiles ago..

Before the current product there was another which was in a small bottle just as the Vallejo paints. The newer product is in a tube & has a long dispenser tube fitted. The description made did not seem to fit my experience with the present product. Certainly not powdery & it is best to tidy up the filling before it goes off as it is jolly hard.

Be interesting to hear others with their experience of this present product.

So it is all coming out most watch Come Dining (Wining I like that).

Laurie

 

[Guest]

Sorry, ignore me, I wasn't aware there was a new type oster_oops:. I was referring to the one in a sqeezy bottle

I'll have to try this new fangled stuff

 

[stona]

It's funny how everyone develops their favourites. I haven't tried the Vallejo one so I can't comment on that. I use the Tamiya putty which I like whereas I have a friend who swears by the Squadron putties which I hate. Another case of each to their own I guess. If you are happy with the product you are using why change? It shouldn't stop you trying other things,I may well give this Vallejo stuff a go.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

Sorry, ignore me, I wasn't aware there was a new type oster_oops:. I was referring to the one in a sqeezy bottleI'll have to try this new fangled stuff

Cannot be certain andygh it is different only that my experience was not the same. As Steve has pointed out we all have our likes etc.

Laurie

 

[Vaughan]

MMD Green Putty

Hi all I've bought some MMD fast drying green Putty has anybody used it? I haven't tried it yet but reading the warnings on it I don't know if I want to!!. It says it contains toluene which produce harmful vapours and goes on to mention about chemicals known to the State of California that can cause birth defects!!

Vaughan

 

[Guest]

Cannot be certain andygh it is different only that my experience was not the same. As Steve has pointed out we all have our likes etc.

According to the Vallejo website the stuff in the bottle is exactly the same as your tube filler, maybe I got one from a dodgy batch:sobbing:

Hi all I've bought some MMD fast drying green Putty has anybody used it? I haven't tried it yet but reading the warnings on it I don't know if I want to!!. It says it contains toluene which produce harmful vapours and goes on to mention about chemicals known to the State of California that can cause birth defects!!

It's fine, just don't eat it or stuff it up your nose, especially if you're pregnant :lala:

Seriously, many of us have been using fillers containing toluene for decades. Don't forget safety warnings are far more stringent in the U.S.

Personally I like Revell Plasto

 

[Guest]

I'm watching some revell plasto on eBay, the cheapest of them all to get hold of at the moment via eBay so I might be trying that first - I haven't tried fillers yet!

I wonder if bog standard decorators caulk would do the trick.....

 

[Guest]

I'm watching some revell plasto on eBay, the cheapest of them all to get hold of at the moment via eBay so I might be trying that first - I haven't tried fillers yet!I wonder if bog standard decorators caulk would do the trick.....

I'm using some leftover coving adhesive. I think it must be a PVA glue with some grainy stuff added.

It works very well, and is water based, so no harmful fumes.

Tony

 

[Guest]

No More Nails works as a pretty good filler. It cleans up with water & if you've got an old Revell Contacta pot with the needle-tube, you can apply it very precisely.

It does shrink a little as it cures though, but at a £1, I'm prepared to put up with that!

Cheers

Patrick