How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)
A little bit of filling
Now I know that this may be heresy in certain circles but I have a confession…
I think green stuff is just a tiny bit…
Shit!
Coming from a scale modelling background originally before I got seriously into all things Games Workshop I had never used green stuff, my go to modelling compound was and is Milliput and the best of these is superfine white. There are loads of other varieties for different uses and colours and I have found it to be great for filling and sculpting. The use of Milliput is the same as for green stuff, you take equal portions of each bar and mix them until it is an even colour. The only issue with superfine is that both parts are white, so that you must mix it for at least three minutes.
Fortunately, there was very little filling required. There was a small piece missing from a wading duct and the joints for the fascines need filling. The worst part was the resin fascine which had a lot of air bubbles. After filling, I noticed that the modelled retaining wires didn’t look great, so I cut them off and made my own ones by looping copper wire @4 times and then twisted them together. I then created a loop at one end so that I could wrap them around the fascine and then back on itself to give a tight finish.
Never used it but Gerry made a video of a range of fillers and he was saying that their is way better versions out their.
@zorg, if you have to do gap filling I don’t think there’s anything better than the superfine. You can use a small bit of water to get it smoothed right down so that virtually no sanding is required. I’d highly recommend anyone to give it a try.
I have the liquid green stuff for bubbles an like I’ve been lucky enough with models with small faults an any bigger one’s are made to look like battle damage? oops that’ll be me jinxed myself now?
I’ll have a look at the Gerry can video can’t remember if it was the Gray or the Brown he loved. but he didn’t think to highly of the green stuff compared to the others.
yes it was the brown stuff he liked best then the gray over the green which was great for flexible things like hoses an power cables