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Offline matchboxluc

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Milliput
« on: May 12, 2007, 18:04:41 »
Hi,

It may be somewhat strange to hear from me that I recently started customizing using Milliput. I've made several customs, but until recently I always used some other 2-component epoxy mass; however, I found that this stuffs quality had become less good lately(small hard pieces inside the material) :( . A few days ago I bought a pack of "red" Milliput and today I started using it on a new custom... and it's wonderful! 8-) Uniform consistency, responsive to water (adhesion), easy to use and it doesn't smell as bad as the other stuff!
Just wanted to vent my happiness... :)
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Re: Milliput
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2007, 17:41:02 »
Milliput is good - I've used the grey and white version for filling in gaps before painting in the past and it is always as you say, and easily smoothed down with a wet finger or cloth.
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Re: Milliput
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2007, 08:43:29 »
I've tried a variety of stuff over the years but miliput is streets ahead of anything else.

BTW I once tried "Plastic Padding" a compound made for car body repairs.  It was great when it had hardened and could be carved beautifully, but it generated so much heat when curing, that it melted the plastic items I was using it with.

Plus it stank to high heaven.
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Re: Milliput
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2007, 14:39:40 »
Games Workshop also sells a two-part putty they call "green stuff" - not cheap, but it works very, very well.
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Re: Milliput
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2007, 02:03:14 »
Does anyone in the USA have a milliput vendor or milliput substitute they recommend?  My local shop doesn't carry it, and a casual search off the web brings up tons of British shops, but only one American store (which doesn't list quantity and which I'd like to price compare).

I do have a Games Workshop in the area, and may try the "Green Stuff", at least until I find milliput.  Games Workshop is so overpriced though (I'm ex-Warhammer!) that I avoid them as a sort of grudge.  (Also the staff at my local store irritate me a little.)

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Re: Milliput
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2007, 08:47:48 »
Disregard, I found my answer.

The American buzzword is "Sculptor's modeling putty" and all my local hobby shops, checked on-line, contain a variant on it.
 
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Re: Milliput
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2007, 15:40:11 »
Didn't Gulliver visit the land of the Milliputians in his travels?  0)
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Re: Milliput
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2007, 10:39:30 »
Quote from: Martin Milner on October 25, 2007, 15:40:11
Didn't Gulliver visit the land of the Milliputians in his travels?  0)

I remember they tied him down with an expensive hobby.  To see that giant of a man enslaved by little 5 cm people....
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