Perfect Plastic

Ditto on the Bondo Red. They used to make it in light blue also (not available around here anymore) and it was great under lighter paint colors. Thinned down with lacquer thinner in a bottle cap, it fills fine repairs easily applied with a pin point or toothpick.

Jim 

I use the Bondo exclusively.  Cheap and easy to get without postage for me.

Good tip about the laquer thinner, thanks

Hi;

I use specifically 3 - M Red glazing putty . I like the way it works. If you dip a finger in lacquer thinner you can make an awesome wing fillet that needs little sanding .

I also use Testors ,Tamiya and other products , but I like the 3 - M product best . I will actually use Bondo Brand if I have a lot of contouring to do . I prep the surface by brushing on and letting set,  Lacquer thinner . This allows the Bondo to adhere without cracking or breaking away from the surface in thin areas . I've used these products non-stop for more years than I care to count .     T.B.

I use auto body putty, now called glazing putty for some strange reason (it used to be called spot putty).  They no longer sell it in small tubes- I guess home body repairs are not as big a market as it used to be.  The price of a tube is pretty high, but the tube is very large, so the price per ounce is pretty low. I have been meticulous in putting cap on as soon as I finish, and it has lasted for over two years now. It is very similar to the stuff sold by Squadron.  Dries very fast, but does shrink a bit.

The company that makes this also make many other interesting products.

However they are based in England and are not widely available here.

Thanks for the input. I use the Squadron usually, and the cheap testors with the glue applicators for smaller seams. It works well. I saw a youtube video for the Perfect plastic from FSM as well as some others. May have to give it a try. Thanks again.

Yes I've used it, feels a bit like plaster/chalk, sands very well, takes paint well, quite hard, cleans up with water.

Can be smoothed out with a damp brush, spatula, paint shaper, Q-tip, etc, working time can be extended a bit with water & about the best I've found for filling in a wing-root radius & hasn't cracked after a year of handling.

Deluxe Tutorials here:   

I never got on with the VJ putty, it skinned over & stuck to everything except the gap!

I have not used it yet.  it is a water-based putty that is supposed to be pretty nice to work with, with very minimal shrinkage.  I do however use the vallejo brand water based putty and it too is nice to work with.  The tube stuff has a very small opening for filling those small areas.  I really like it.  I also use Tamiya putty when I need to fill a little larger gap.

Never heard of it.  I preferred using Testors' red putty, but they stopped making it. Now I use Tamiya putty.