Green Stuff question

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**Dodiez**

Is there a way to preserve green stuff that I've already mixed and I'm not ready to use? I tried wrapping it in saran wrap and it was a dismal failure, so decided to ask Dakka for help. Thanks for all suggestions.

I searched to see if this had been previously answered and the search function was evil.

**Terraformer**

Once you mix green stuff, a chemical reaction starts to cause it to harden, so wrapping it against air won't help. What you can do is place your mixed green stuff in the freezer to slow down the reaction. It won't pause it completely but you might get another day or two of time out of it.

Hope that helps!

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Never found the freezer thing to be a lot of use and only had moderate success. Possibly because I have left it longer than a day or two.
I try not to mix too much up in one go and mixing small amounts seems a lot easier on the fingers.

**Dodiez**

Thanks to both of you.

I figured I was boned. I guess I will tell Dash to mix smaller amounts.

**Ailaros**

yup. It will take a while to get a good feel for how much GS to mix.

**SlaveToDorkness**

I always break off pieces then put half of it back before mixing it. Amazing how well that works vs. jsut judging what I need.

The smaller amount you use the less waste (if any) you have. You can always mix more!

**CURNOW**

If I've got some left I roll it into sausages to use as rivets or roll it out flat to use as armour plates or straps stuff like that . U just cut it when its set..once made a whole suit of power armour for a model using cured greenstuff.

**HadoukenAvenger**

Would puyying it in water slow it down? Maybe putting it in water and freezing?

**Stokleplinger**

CURNOW wrote:If I've got some left I roll it into sausages to use as rivets or roll it out flat to use as armour plates or straps stuff like that . U just cut it when its set..once made a whole suit of power armour for a model using cured greenstuff.

This!! I do the same thing with GS and my Aves, I keep some wax paper so I can run it through my pasta machine so it's the right thickness. The only tough part is cutting the rivets flat!

**SlaveToDorkness**

HadoukenAvenger wrote:Would puyying it in water slow it down? Maybe putting it in water and freezing?

No. It is a chemical reaction and has nothing to do with "drying".