If you need to fill a small seam, panel line, or zillions of rivets on a Trumpeter kit, try typewriter correction fluid. It dries fast, so you can put down multiple applications quickly, and it sands easily. It can even be polished. It does tend to lift if you mask over it.
I use both the bottle with the brush applicator and the pen-type. The bottle-type can be used instead of Mr Surfacer to cover pinholes in putty. The pen is great from running along panel lines or filling where you've accidentally run your scriber too far past your stopping point, but the tip tends to clog, which is a pain in the neck.
The stuff shrinks quite a bit, so you'll usually have to put down at least two applications.
Ben
Great tip pardon the pun...any particular brand and where do you get yours staples ? Walmart?
I just get whatever's available at Office Depot, since it's close to my house. I'm not sure if Target or Walmart carry that sort of thing, since I don't think people use it very much any more. I don't bother with any particular brand, just what's available.
Ben
Ben, if your refering to a product called whiteout, you haven't met my techno challenged wife who would still rather use a land line than a cell. I'm sure there are at least 2 or 3 bottles of that stuff in her desk. ::)
Great idea. Thanks Ben. I will have to try that on the Tornado I am building right now.
The first time I heard of typewriter correction fluid as a seam filler was in England. There, they used a product called "Tippix"(sp). The major concern was that you had to use the "non water based" correction fluid. Evidently, the water based correction fluid would "scab or roll up" under sanding. At that time the British Gov was cracking down on anything solvent based, so there was a mad rush by modelers to pick up any solvent based Tippix on the market.
I think I have two or three dried up bottles of it in the bottom of my modeling desk. (they dried up naturally, not by respirating it).
Shane