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Save your $$$, buy SuperFine Miliputt and do the same thing.

Mix some, make a well, add a drop or 2 of water and brush on...

"Liquid Greenstuff" isnt liquified Kneadatite (the trade name of "Greenstuff")... and its quite inferior to existing hobby products.

AvatarForm wrote:Save your $$$, buy SuperFine Miliputt and do the same thing.

Mix some, make a well, add a drop or 2 of water and brush on...

"Liquid Greenstuff" isnt liquified Kneadatite (the trade name of "Greenstuff")... and its quite inferior to existing hobby products.

So how do you know it's so inferior? Have you bought some and tested it?

I saw like 10 on the shelf at my local store when I when I first saw it. I picked some up for gaps on my cockatrice on friday and there was 1 left.

I like the stuff, looking forward to my next projects.

@Kanluwen bit of water added to the GS and it's become quite smooth, certainly smoother than the 1st coat. A light smoothing with a rubber sculpting tool and bingo. +1 to the GS.

Glad it worked out for ya, mwnciboo. I used it to fill in a small gap on my Tomb Banshee's funerary cloth, and had the same problem you were having before I decided to try watering it down.

I'm guessing a big part of why it sold out is the curiosity factor. Price-wise, the cost is pretty much inconsequential, so it wouldn't surprise me if most people were like me, picking up a pot just to see how it works.

Actually, thats not a bad call Jones. It certainly is cheap enough that it has the "What the hell, i might as well give it a go.." factor to the product.

I have found that Liquid Green Stuff is perfect for gap filling, and those odd fixing requirements for Forgeworld Models and such. Heck one of my buddies has used it to litterally paint on wings for a Night Lords symbol with a Vampire Counts skeleton skull in the center on 2 diffrent Contemptors.

Lysenis wrote:I have found that Liquid Green Stuff is perfect for gap filling, and those odd fixing requirements for Forgeworld Models and such.

Funny, that's exactly what they released it for.

Anyway, getting down to brass tacks, what does it taste like?

mwnciboo wrote:I picked it up at my FLGS...Still not sure about it, goes on like paint, but hmmm.....It doesn't react like GS. Getting a smooth finish is difficult unless you want to file it down.

Using it on my first conversion (female jetseer).

WATER LGS DOWN!

Trust me it works, and when really watered down its great for getting rid of fingerprints in normal GS.

Everytime i go into my FLGS they appear out of LGS so in effect i'm left with F.

yeah Liquid green stuff i guess is the lazymans filler, saves time so i guess is generally ok.

Don't know where you love thousand nuns but the toymaster in devizes has some..........if you know where that is wiltshire I think, I'm not from there

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:Don't know where you love thousand nuns but the toymaster in devizes has some

I am sure that was a mis-type.. but it reads SOOO much better this way...

nectarprime wrote:

AvatarForm wrote:Save your $$$, buy SuperFine Miliputt and do the same thing.

Mix some, make a well, add a drop or 2 of water and brush on...

"Liquid Greenstuff" isnt liquified Kneadatite (the trade name of "Greenstuff")... and its quite inferior to existing hobby products.

So how do you know it's so inferior? Have you bought some and tested it?

Trialled it while assembling the new monsters for Storm of magic for a LFGS owner who is a mate.

Do you have any other witty remarks to add?

Wasn't trying to be witty, just an honest question!

LunaHound wrote:Why doesnt anyone just use wall fillers?

Because we're working with Toy Soldiers and not the Living Room Wall?

On a serious side: my store still has plenty. Used it this week to fix a locals poorly assembled monster kit. IMO this stuff is one of the best "supplies" that GW has ever made.

-Loki- wrote:

Lysenis wrote:I have found that Liquid Green Stuff is perfect for gap filling, and those odd fixing requirements for Forgeworld Models and such.

Funny, that's exactly what they released it for.

Oddly enouigh I know, but how long has forgeworld been around and how long did they take to release this? Or better yet How often does game workshop release things that are benifical to the client and not there own pockets? They could have EASILY made bottles cost $5 a pop.

My store has like 10+ pots of it.

Is Squadron Green Putty a comparable product?



It seems to me that it's almost the same stuff. Although, I think the Squadron stuff needs a laquer-based thinner to thin it out. But it seems to be the same concept.

What about Vallejo's Plastic Putty?



Just wondering if any of these are comparable since The LGS seems to be of real short supply right now...

I call BS on GW

Just like dreadfleet "almost sold out" on the first weekend, my guess is that they are either bending the truth again or they just didnt make enough in order to make it look like its flying off the shelves for people to fix their citadel miscast models. Especially with that nasty rumour going around that they will no longer accept all miscast models for return, but instead sell you the repair kit.

I'd say shame on them but they arent the idiots that fall for dancing box sales tactics.

Panzerbjorn wrote:Is Squadron Green Putty a comparable product?



It seems to me that it's almost the same stuff. Although, I think the Squadron stuff needs a laquer-based thinner to thin it out. But it seems to be the same concept.

I've used Squadron putty for years.

I can comfortably say that Squadron putty is nothing the same as Liquid Green Stuff.

First of all, there's no danger of getting a high(or potential respiratory issues, depending on allergies that you have...learned that the hard way, even ventilated if I don't wear a respirator the stuff causes all kinds of fun hacking and wheezing for me) off of LGS like there is with Squadron Green putty.

Second of all, Squadron Green putty is meant more for filling huge gaps or potentially even resculpting over gaps. Liquid Green stuff is not for that. It's for those smaller gaps you sometimes find where if you put the other stuff on it--you're overlapping the entire area and obscuring the detail, which LGS does not do as when watered down it flows quite readily around the detail. What's more, there's very little waste (as you only take what you need on your brush, not squeezing the tube for a guesstimated amount which you may need more or less of) and it does sand quite nicely as well.

I haven't used the Vallejo Plastic Putty before, so cannot comment on that.

Ravenous D wrote:Just like dreadfleet "almost sold out" on the first weekend, my guess is that they are either bending the truth again or they just didnt make enough in order to make it look like its flying off the shelves for people to fix their citadel miscast models. Especially with that nasty rumour going around that they will no longer accept all miscast models for return, but instead sell you the repair kit.

Funny, because I have yet to hear this rumor about them not accepting miscast models and "instead selling you the repair kit". Cite a source, because the miscasts that people return can't be fixed by any amount of liquid green stuff or a brush.

And as mentioned already, it is very likely that they did not make as large of a sales run as they normally would for tools like this. Despite what people think, GW are not stupid and they did learn from the mistake that they made with the Spraybrush where they had to eat a huge loss after it came out that in several of the early batches the manufacturer built them with a plastic regulator valve...which does not work, even with the PSI of a can of propellant.

porkuslime wrote:

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:Don't know where you love thousand nuns but the toymaster in devizes has some

I am sure that was a mis-type.. but it reads SOOO much better this way...

Not quite sure how to respond to the first part of that scotti...result? Unfortunately i'm in Bedfordshire but i will be out and about tomorrow trying Hobbycraft to see if they've got any. No local toymasters unfortunately but thanks for the heads up.

AvatarForm wrote:

nectarprime wrote:

AvatarForm wrote:Save your $$$, buy SuperFine Miliputt and do the same thing.

Mix some, make a well, add a drop or 2 of water and brush on...

"Liquid Greenstuff" isnt liquified Kneadatite (the trade name of "Greenstuff")... and its quite inferior to existing hobby products.

So how do you know it's so inferior? Have you bought some and tested it?

Trialled it while assembling the new monsters for Storm of magic for a LFGS owner who is a mate.

Do you have any other witty remarks to add?

In the meantime I ordered up some superfine Miliputt and some Revell Plasto to experiment. I took your "mould into a cup" tip and tried that seemed to work ok though my gap may have been a bit too big as i needed to mould some of the putty in to the gap to fill it. Did you use it on say the fine gaps on a metal/finecast model's arms?

Revel's Plasto is a bit different probably closer to LGS in consistency much more the liquid as opposed to a putty/cement. Its was also pretty good it dries very quickly at room temp so you need to be quick to get in on correctly. It produces a smoother finish than my attempt at Miliput but I'm not sure how it would fair on larger gaps.

I own a hobby store and I was told by my sales rep they were out globally until dec. The under estimated how well it would sell. We demo'd it with some models the day it came in at our store and sold out what we had in, I got more in that week and then sold it out in the first twenty minutes of having it on the shelf. 20 bottles of it is what I ordered in, I was quit surprised with how well it worked, and how well it sold.

As some of you talked about wet down your bursh, add some water and it works well. You can skip the water and make it thicker but it will need some sanding to smooth out.

Closest thing I have found to it is the vallejo stuff.

Kanluwen: Thank you, bud! Wasn't sure if they were the same or not, but after I read that you could thin the squadron putty with liquid plastic cement, I was starting to wonder about the wisdom on using it on plastic miniatures.

I don't think that there is any claim that there are not similar products (or those that you can alter for similar results), but what LGS does is provide a quick[ish] drying solution to very small gaps that is pre-made and (most importantly kids) non-toxic.

The Vallejo Plastic Putty sounds like the stuff.

It was obvious from the descriptions that the liquid green stuff was some kind of acrylic resin.

proud owner of six pots of green stuff.......the GW adhesive not um...illegal adult entertainment

There are few reasons to buy any hobby supplies at/through GW. I never buy GW if there are alternatives.

Vallejo "plastic putty" is cheaper that GW's "LGS" the formulas differ only in the color. Vallejo is marble dust and titanium white. LGS is marble dust and green paint.

I use plastic putty and it is well suited for its purpose. What were the modellers who snapped up all the LGS using before?

AesSedai wrote:I use plastic putty and it is well suited for its purpose. What were the modellers who snapped up all the LGS using before?

My guess is nothing. Someone can play these games for years and not be aware of other companies products. Not everyone lives on message boards getting advice, quite a lot of people go it alone, and unless they have an LGS that stocks the alternatives, then they're not going to know those alternatives exist.