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If any unmixed components of Green Stuff end up on surfaces like a table or on nitrile gloves, would wiping them down with 99% IPA and shining a UV light under the area be enough to cure them or is there a better method that can be used?

Ok so your post confuses me because it sounds like you're talking about greenstuff for modelling but then you talk about IPA and UV light which sounds like 3D printing resins.


So can you please confirm what kind of green stuff you are talking about.

Sorry about that, I'm not doing any kind of 3d printing but I'm using the Green Stuff Epoxy Putty from the Gale Force Nine brand. I wasn't sure if this was the right section to discuss cleaning. I got the more yellow-looking component on some nitrile gloves I was using so I was wondering if wiping them off with a cloth of IPA and putting the gloves under a UV light be good enough?

Honestly I'm fairly sure a lot of hobbyists just use that with bare fingers.


As its water soluble you can likely just wash it off the gloves with regular water and some light rubbing action.

Thanks, I've heard people call Green Stuff a type of resin so I wanted to make sure I'm cleaning everything off properly before throwing any gloves into the garbage.

Resin comes in many many forms. The safety advice you've picked up I think is mostly related to the big influx of 3D printed resins which are really very different to your standard modelling putties.


3D printed resins come in liquid form (until cured by UV light) and are indeed hazardous to your health and should be handled with nitrile gloves, IPA and UV torch.

Green stuff and its component parts are safe up to, and probably beyond, actually eating it. I can’t imagine trying to use the stuff while wearing gloves. It would be so hard to stop getting weird imprints on. Rest assured that no special cleanup is required for green stuff.

Ah, so I didn’t need the IPA to wash the putty off before disposal?

Angelos30 wrote:
Ah, so I didn’t need the IPA to wash the putty off before disposal?

Nope.

For greenstuff you don't even need IPA at all.

For working with it I recommend using plain water.


Just mix up the greenstuff using your fingers until its all green in your hand. Equal parts blue and yellow is the default, but you can add more of one than the other for either a stronger final cure or a more malleable one, though I forget which does which.

Then wet your tools that you are working with with standard water. This helps stop the greenstuff sticking to them but still lets you manipulate it. Rewet your tools every so often as you work.
Once you're done simply leave the greenstuff in the air to cure, it takes about 24 hours to cure fully, but can be fairly firm after an hour or two. You can also bake it (heat) to speed this process up.


For tools themselves I find that standard clay tools are great. You can get a whole set of metal clay tools for not very much on ebay and the like. In addition I'd strongly suggest getting some clay/colour shapers (same tool just different names). They are fantastic as they are a soft silicon tipped tool that lets you smooth over greenstuff. This can create very soft and smooth edges and surfaces and they are invaluable tools. They typically come in sets of 5 different head shapes and in 3 colours - black hardest, then grey then white as the softest. Though even the black tip is very soft. In theory you can smooth over from black to white to get a really smooth surface, though I have to admit a lot of the time my most used is a cone tipped black colourshaper/clayshaper.


Again I'm only using water on the tool to stop the greenstuff sticking too it as I work .




If you want a bit more work time than water you can use regular oil (eg olive oil, vegetable oil); though if you use oil, once the model is cured you want to give it a light wash in warm (not hot) and lightly soapy water to get the oil residue off otherwise it will mess with any primer and paint adhesion.




I think if you look up standard "greenstuff modelling" and hobby type stuff on youtube and the like you should find some good guides on it.