well being the genius that i am :-) i was sitting down in the stinkin heat today, glueing together two halfs of my F-51D, and when it dried i found it had a few gaps.
i didnt have an putty or anything to fill it with, so i think being a little dehydrated, i came up with an idea... what if i mixed my model glue (plastic cement) with talcum powder...so i did, and lo n' behold, its filled the gaps perfectly, a lil sanding when it dried, but it worked.
p.s. if Cliff trys to convince you that he once tried this himself, disregard it he wants all my glory
:-)
cheers

p.p.s Cliff did try it before me, but i didnt know this...soooo, techniqually, i figured it out for myself, anyway thats not the point, the point is give it a shot, it works great!

Hmm, does your Mustang smell like a rose now? :-)
LOL. Sounds like its worth giving a try David, I know the glue by itself will fill small gaps. The talcom powder just adds body. Good thinking!

Garry

"necessity is the mother of all inventions"
Glad to hear it worked out for you.....
:-) :-) :-) :-)

hmmm now you did not explain that if you want a pansy smelling model you use ladies talc but if you want a super strong job you use mens talc. :-) :-)

Cliff

PS> you can have the glory David I'll just take the money! :-) :-)

People making model aircraft (the type that really fly) often make wings from tissue on a wooden frame. This tissue has to be made airtight and has to really “shrink” onto the wooden frame.
For that they paint the tissue with a special type of “varnish?” Well, its not really varnish but some special compound.
Some 20 years ago we used to grind leftover sprue to powder. Mixing some of it with this special varnish made perfect and very cheap putty in just any quantity you needed.

:-) no Garry it doesnt, funny thing is it does smell though, lol, kinda like plain crackers/biscuits.
but thats only while its wet :-)
Cliff mate dont try n pin that sorta stuff on me, we allll know why you trucky's dangle those fancy smelling pine trees n such off the rear vis. mirrior, cheaper than girly perfume right :-) :-) :-)
Drab Slad, just like Dave said, necisity is the mother of invention
cheers guys

Blimey....... Don't tell me yous guys got those tacky pine trees dangling from the rear view mirrors down there too!!!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) Figured all yous guys dangled Foster Cans from the mirrors....... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
I can honestly say a pine tree has never hung in my truck.....

because Victoria is so far south of Queensland we call the people that live there Mexicans! Now Mexican truck drivers would hang a pine tree from there mirroe but with us Queenslanders it is a bottle of Bundaberg Rum :-) :-) :-)

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

:-) :-) :-) OH! Cliff mate i think you stuck ya finger right back up again after i told you to take it out! LOL
Bundaberg, come off it mate, Give me a VB any day!

Hello, Dave....
Once again, this is a prime example of something that was told to me years ago , by a wise old friend of mine..." Ya' gotta use what ya' got ", is what he said to me...So very true, so many times...
Gunny

Very true mark!

can it be used with Tamiya liquid cement??

this idea sounds really good!

Should do mate, any liquid cement will be the same i'd say

David

Smart thinking and look - a great solution.

I must disagree about VB though. As a home grown Queenslander (no offense Cliff) Bundaberg cordial (rum) is the only drink. The biggest mistake Bundy made was exporting it as there is now less for us.

Although on a hot day an ice COLD VB is only beaten by a XXXX.

Brian

I believe that was buterate "dope" - named after the effect it had on you after using it without adequate ventilation for a while.

Very dangerous, you go first.

Konrad

Drabslab - I believe that was buterate "dope" - named after the effect it had on you after using it without adequate ventilation for a while.

Very dangerous, you go first.

Konrad

The frustrated secretary was Mike Nesmith's Mom, yes Mike Nesmith of the Monkees.

i mix talc with future to make filler, its easy to use, sands easily and my kit smells like a babies bot !

How does Bundaberg cordial (rum) compare to Jamican rum? Is it a spiced rum? How far does it get exported - to the northeast US?

Bundy Rum is very sweet to my taste but I have to admit now to a likeing for Captain Morgan or Caruba rum over bundy when I was able to drink.

Now-a-days a coffee with some pain killers gives me the same effect :-) :-)

:-) :-) :-)Back in my drinking days.... Captain Morgan and me were ship mates...... :-) :-) :-) :-) shiver me timber matey....Usually visiting the brig together....
Calico Davey Kidd........
On the filler issue..... yes remember that......
One of my favorites is right on your desk..... not white out......
"Hey---Hey we're the Monkeey's"....... but an old thickened paint..... gets in to those little nasty, hard to fill places.... dries hard, and easy to sand, especially with 600 or higher grit, takes care of all those nasty seamingly impossible to fill hairline seams, and pin holes in resin. Use a dark color on light stuff, a light color on dark stuff.
Back in the days of hair and teeth, and before 50 different fillers to choose from, good old baby powder, and paint mixed together gave us FLAT paint, (most hobby paints were gloss at the time) as a kid, and airbrush was unheard of, and it was all done by brush, and adding a little more powder, thickened enough for a filler. It wouldn't allow you to contour or build up areas unless you had the patience of a saint and wanted to wait weeks, applying a little at a time..... ( yes some were patience enough to do that.... but not me)
10 cents a bottle for paint, 10 cents for tube of glue.... and when they came out with testors liquid cement, or I should say I discovered it... a new world opened.... but that was 25 cents a bottle........ :-) :-) :-)
They came out with Testors contour putty.....(got a free tube in the AMT Monte Carlo kit, forget the year though) was junk then, still is...... about that time we discovered "plastic wood" would work better, the rough grain didn't phase us..... model on.....

Aw.... the good old days of hair, teeth, Captain Morgan, but not the brig, and modelling......... :-) :-) :-) :-)

:-) :-) :-) Ah Brian, i actually had a feeling after i posted my remark about VB that all the notherners would come to the aid of Cliff :-) :-) :-) seings me and Ricky are thge only really active Victorian members here i think we are outnumbered on this one....
what am i talking about, VB is WAY better, so stick that in ya pipe :-) :-) :-)
cheers guys

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) I'm just courious.... what's the drinking age in Australia??????? :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) rolling on floor......