Where can you find Blu-Tack besides overseas?
Most art/craft stores carry similar products. Michaels has " Handi-Tak" which is the same product except it’s yellow instead of blue. Very useful as a masking medium.
Regards, Rick
Thanks Rick, I’ll check it out.
Under the ‘Blue tack’ is a 1/144 Me-262. Used around my bench, er kitchen table for lots of tasks besides masking.
most hooby shops, teacher supply stores and harware stores have blue or white tack.
Elmers also makes a similar product and you can easily find it on ebay.
Walmart has them.
I use blue tack for temporarily holding canopies in place during painting. If I want to display model with canopy open, I glue windscreen on, then spread blue tack around mating surfaces of rear section, push it in place in the flight position (Canopy is masked). I find it easier to cover cockpit this way than stuffing with tissue. After painting, I remove canopy, clean blue tack from canopy and fuselage surfaces, and glue canopy in the open position.
Not for nothing, but cover the whole aircraft with blue tac is a waste of time. You could have simply use low tack tape (Tamiya or Frog Painter tape) with paper to cover - especially if painting the undersides. I’m not sure what you were trying to accomplish by covering the whole kit with blue tack except you will have a lot of work ahead of you taking it all off.
My method would be paint the underside first, then mask for topside.
Yeah, I usually just take a long roll of the “Tac” and put it along the colour demarcation lines, and then I fill in the areas with masking tape, often cut to triangles - this way you can lay out pretty complicated shapes, and you don’t have to be very precise - the thickness of the border roll is your tolerance.
At shops it’s sometimes best to ask for “this tacky stuff used to hang posters on the walls”. This gets you a pack or two of the stuff you need under the local brand name.
Hope it helps, have a nice day
Paweł