Thinning Putty With Acetone And Painting On???

I do that a lot with the green putty but I use MEK or Testors liquid glue to thin it down and blend. It reacts very nicely with that brand of putty.

Thanks - I'll try it out on some German Tankers!

Be careful about what you thin with. When the putty dries you're gonna have some "shrinkage" and it could defeat the purpose of using the filler in the first place.
I would test your mixture first on a spare sprue.

Hi there.
Here in NewZealand getting alot of differtent putties is difficult.
We are not on the main trade routes(unless its lamb or LOTR)however I've has a lot of sucess with a modelling clay called DAS.
I've had no probs with painting


Cheers Chris

Hi Chris

I used to live in Sydney (now I'm in Houston, TX) and used to get to NZ once a month. I love Auckland - clean and bright and on the water, like Sydney, but smaller and friendlier.

A friend and former club mate of mine sculpts for VLS and he's been thinning spot putties with liquid cement and using the mix as a final coat for the faces of his figures for years. It works well in other aplications too.

For years I've used a DuPont laquer based putty called Spot-N-Glaze and thinned it to the consitancy of enamel paints using laquer thinner and it has always done a good job for me. Yes, it does shrink, but I rarely have to apply more than a couple of coats to get the results I want.
I'm currently playing around with a Verlinden 120mm figure and am trying Pantel's Liquid Whiteout as a seam filler. It has worked very well for me on my armor and aircraft as a pin-hole filler, so I have decided to see how it works on figures.

White-out? That's an interesting idea!

Thanks to everyone for their ideas and suggestions. I had little luck thinning Squadren Green with glue (still too gritty), but I bought some Tamiya Putty and I will try that, plus the White-Out.

Thanks

Neil

HHHMMMM...whiteout. I remember someone talking about using whiteout tape in a dipenser to fill in seams on vehicles( read about it in FSM) but have never thought of using liquid whiteout. I'll have to try that.

Grizz

Hi neilc, here on Guatemala we use both (the first one at hand) thinner lacquer and/or glue -the liquid one-, I mixed them on an empty bottle of Model Master paint, and if become aparently cured can be bring back to life with any of the two liquid. Just one thing about the thinner: on my experience only works the one for lacquer, don't try mineral spirits (they don't have enough "bite" to affect the putty, good luck