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Hello,

I just purchased some models that were made from resin.

I'm not sure if this is the norm with models made from this stuff but they have tiney littles holes made from air bubbles. so I need to fill them somehow.

does anyone know of a good medium to do this with? I was thinking baybe brown stuff so i can file it down if a put too much in. but is therer anything better?

cheers for any help.

IVe personally never worked with a resin model, but I have read plenty of threads on them. Most guys here just stick the GS in there. And yea bubblesa a re a normal thing in resins, same with bending and warpage. Its a softer plastic so it happens I guess. Anywho good luck filling

Milliput is cheaper than GS/BS, has the advantage of being water soluble (so can be smoothed down very quickly) and cures rock hard, so it can be filed/sanded/scraped into the shape you want.

Hope that helps


Stuart

Oh yea I forgot about milliput, alot of guys use that too. Again, never worked with the stuff so it slipped my mind

Coyotebreaks wrote:Hello,

I just purchased some models that were made from resin.

I'm not sure if this is the norm with models made from this stuff but they have tiney littles holes made from air bubbles. so I need to fill them somehow.

does anyone know of a good medium to do this with? I was thinking baybe brown stuff so i can file it down if a put too much in. but is therer anything better?

cheers for any help.

Bubbles are not a normal thing with good quality resin casting. You may have to deal with some warpage and some removal of flash and injection ports but that is about it.

To deal with it I would probably use something like Milliput. It is handy as you can make it into a wash and just wash the miniature with it and fill all the air holes, plus when it dries and really cures you can sand it and file it, allowing you to keep the shape you need. Green stuff is probably a little too soft for that.

Squadron Green putty.

Mix some up with a little liquid polystyrene cement and apply thin paste to bubbled areas.
When dry, sand flat (SG sands easily when hard, unlike greenstuff).

This is what I use.

Works a treat.

great! thanks for all the suggestions.

a big help indeed

On regular scale model sites, everyone seems to use medium thickness CA glue (superglue).

Once on, spray it with an accelerator, and then sand it down right away before it fully cures.

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