Hello everyone[:D] I am looking for a nice water clean up putty and I am torn between two: Perfect Plastic Putty or Vellejo Plastic Putty. I can only afford to buy one. Which one would you recommend and why (if you have specific reasons). Thank you for your help gents!
Perfect Plastic, waay more useable, & lots of how to’s on their website:
Can be used ‘dry’, or shaped wet, dries hard, carves, drills, sands, takes paint, etc., whereas the VJ… doesn’t
I don’t get on with VJ putty, doesn’t go where I want, shrinks, & doesn’t sand well…
About UKP£4.00-£5.00 for 40ml vs. UKP£3.00-ish for 11ml? so cheaper as well,
Rodger that. My fiance went ahead and ordered me some. Thanks a lot!
I went to their webpage and can’t even find perfect plastic putty listed. What’s up with that?
I purchase it through Amazon.
Ebay has it as well
I don’t see how other putties can possibly be easier to use and more effective than Perfect Plastic Putty.
Mine comes tomorrow! I have a few builds waiting on it so i’m pretty excited. Do you have any tips on using it? Or is it that easy
my bad,
I haven’t tried the PPP yet; however, I do use the Vallejo Plastic putty fairly often. The thing I like about the Vallejo is that you can cut the tip so that it only applies a small, super thin line of putty. Then, using a damp finger or q-tip you can wipe away the excess. When I use this putty it is mainly for small seam gaps or wing fillets. Just my .02 worth.
I have been extremely happy with Perfect Plastic Putty. It is super-easy to work with. Highly recommended.
I heard about Perfect Plastic Putty on another thread and was lucky to find some at my hobby store. I really like the product as it easily cleans with water. As an example, I’m working on a plane that has a small gap at the wing/fuselage joint. I carefully spread some of the putty on and used a wet Q Tip to wipe the excess leaving a smooth even patch.
One negative I’ve experienced with PPP is that it dries very fast. Several times I’ve be left with a useless blob of putty because it dried by the time I used all of it.
Mits- You mean it set up in the tube even with the cap on? Or dried as soon as you spread it on the model?
I place a blob of putty on my workbench and use that as a “reservoir” for my putty work instead of leaving the cap off the tube. The size of the blob depends on how much I think I will need. At most it will be about the size of a pinto bean.
As I work from that reservoir if I take too long on a seam or something it will begin to dry out before I can use all of it.
Time wise I’m talking 1 to 4 minutes.
About like the 3M acryl blue glazing putty.
Ok, thanks. Sounds like most other putties I’m used to.