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Tamiya Basic Type Putty is used for filling in seams when assembling plastic model kits or RC models that use ABS or styrene plastic bodies. The putty is gray in color and may be applied with a flat surface tool. NOTE: Tamiya's basic type putty is not intended to fill large gaps. It is meant to fill in seams and imperfections in plastic model surfaces. The basic putty may also be used for resin model, metal model and vinyl model applications.
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Basic Putty (87053) Plastic Model Kit Accessory By TAMIYA
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Customers like the functionality and sandability of the bonding adhesive. They mention it's excellent to work with, ideally suited for the purpose, and easy to sand off the excess.
Customers like the functionality of the product. They mention it's excellent to work with, ideally suited for the purpose, and good for their modeling needs.
So this is a tricky review. This stuff is hard to use, I am not sure if I am trying to apply it wrongly or if this stuff is actually really tricky to use. At the tube it is creamy and pliable, then nearly instantly starts to dry at the surface. It adheres in chucks to the plastic, it is both sticky but hard to get it onto the model where you want it. It's not the best thing for organic shapes... but if you have a lot of room to sand it, it sands well as you can see on the underside of this model. Complex and dynamic shapes make it MUCH harder to use. Milliput is almost entirely easier to work into places and then take it away, add, take it away etc. The putty is both hard to apply but then also graby and I mean GRABY it grabs onto anything it can touch. It is a bit random, it seems you need to break the dried surface and then it bites down. It eats into the plastic, too. It's cool stuff and usually I love Tamiya products but this is very tricky to apply. So... on a flat surface I'd say its a 5/5 easily, on some trickier harder to sand areas it's a 3/5... I'll rate it in the middle but I can say this is VERY tricky stuff to use.
This stuff is hard to use, I am not sure if I am trying to apply it wrongly or if this stuff is actually really tricky to use. At the tube it is creamy and pliable, then nearly instantly starts to dry at the surface. It adheres in chucks to the plastic, it is both sticky but hard to get it onto the model where you want it. It's not the best thing for organic shapes... but if you have a lot of room to sand it, it sands well as you can see on the underside of this model.
Complex and dynamic shapes make it MUCH harder to use. Milliput is almost entirely easier to work into places and then take it away, add, take it away etc. The putty is both hard to apply but then also graby and I mean GRABY it grabs onto anything it can touch. It is a bit random, it seems you need to break the dried surface and then it bites down. It eats into the plastic, too. It's cool stuff and usually I love Tamiya products but this is very tricky to apply.
So... on a flat surface I'd say its a 5/5 easily, on some trickier harder to sand areas it's a 3/5... I'll rate it in the middle but I can say this is VERY tricky stuff to use.
This stuff is hard to use, I am not sure if I am trying to apply it wrongly or if this stuff is actually really tricky to use. At the tube it is creamy and pliable, then nearly instantly starts to dry at the surface. It adheres in chucks to the plastic, it is both sticky but hard to get it onto the model where you want it. It's not the best thing for organic shapes... but if you have a lot of room to sand it, it sands well as you can see on the underside of this model.
Complex and dynamic shapes make it MUCH harder to use. Milliput is almost entirely easier to work into places and then take it away, add, take it away etc. The putty is both hard to apply but then also graby and I mean GRABY it grabs onto anything it can touch. It is a bit random, it seems you need to break the dried surface and then it bites down. It eats into the plastic, too. It's cool stuff and usually I love Tamiya products but this is very tricky to apply.
So... on a flat surface I'd say its a 5/5 easily, on some trickier harder to sand areas it's a 3/5... I'll rate it in the middle but I can say this is VERY tricky stuff to use.
Okay first rule of any filler remember what you put on you have to sand so light coats wet finger and smooth it out less sanding its all how you put it on make sure have a set of wet dry sand paper finer the better from hundreds to 10,000 grit make invisible use it right make some plastic applicators from a auto body speaker make some custom applicators less on less sanding better finish .
It may call itself "Basic type" but this putty is far from basic. In thin layers, this putty cures in 30 minutes. It carves away, sands down and becomes a seamless finish on your project. That piece you accidentally snipped off and glued back on that left a visible crack? GONE. This putty has become a life-saver with my resin garage kit projects.