Zap-a-Gap ond other fillers.
Hey Gang!
Hope everyone had a nice holiday. The nice thing about having
time off for Christmas is having free time to work on the models.
Woo-hoo!!!
Well, progress has moved forward on the 1/32 BK-117s. I managed to finish on the interiors and get the bodies assembled.
As I had mentioned in a previous post, The BK's are going to require
some gap filling and seam patching due to the poor fit.
What suggestions do you guys have for gap fillers? I use the
Squadron Putty and use solvent to smooth it out which helps fill gaps
pretty well. What about Zap-a-Gap?
Believe it or not, the heavt-duty liquid nails adhesive caulk works
pretty nice. For heavy, deep, wide, gaps, and it dries pretty
hard. But you do have to take extra care when using it since it
likes to sting on ya when handling it.
You can see a lot of the green patching I've had to do. I have
some gap filling to do around the engine housing were it meets the
body. Of course, more pictures to follow as progress moves
forward.
I will be getting a tabletop vacuum former this week and will be
molding my own External oxygon tanks and radar noze domes. I'll
be using some thicker stock Styrene for that to give it some
rigidity. So I know there will be some gap patching on
that.
I've never did much gap filling and patching in my old days of
modeling. But now that I'm back to building, I'm doing a lot of
stuff I've never done before.
Here's to the New Year. Best wishes to all.
John
-The more I'm around humans, the more I prefer the company of birds and animals
-Even though the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.
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