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Putty drying to quich

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Putty drying to quich
Posted by SKEATA on Sunday, March 10, 2013 4:48 AM

Does anybody have any ideas on how to keep Green putty pliable ( or any putty ) it's drying as soon as it leaves the tube 

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    June 2009
  • From: Netherlands
Posted by kermit on Sunday, March 10, 2013 10:22 AM

Always a bit of a pain isn't it? The quickest answer to this would be: work FAST... I have never tried the green putty myself so i don't really know if its waterbased or solvent based putty. I did try to thin my solvent based putty with some mineral spirit in the past and it kinda works to keep it wet but tends to make my putty grainy.

I always grab a little tamyia tape and stick a few strips to the bench. I then squirt a tiny glob on it and start stirring with a wooden toothpick right away. You always use too much putty so work with small quantities. For instance i tape off the top half of my model and apply the putty. Then i reapply new tape on the bench and get a new small glob after i taped of the undersides and so on; in other words, i work in stages.

Richard

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill

  • Member since
    August 2008
Posted by tankerbuilder on Monday, March 11, 2013 7:17 AM

I have found this to work .Draw some out of the tube (about what you think you are going to need .) Then , take and put about one or  two drops of lacquer thinner in it  , stir well and thoruoghly .This works for me .OH , by the way , make sure you do this on or in a glass container . Use that ashtray that doesn't get used anymore !

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    March 2003
Posted by icit on Friday, March 15, 2013 4:00 PM

Try mixing in a little Tamiya liquid cement and as the man said, worker faster.

ICIT

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