"Tips for using Green Stuff" Topic

I am using Green Stuff for the first time to make stowage for vehicles. Can anyone offer any tips or advice?
Thanks

Some useful stuff here:

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and here:

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Just starting to up-stowage my vehicles too.

Be careful around plastic. I once filled in a tank turret and the Green Stuff melted the plastic. Thin layers only.

My first piece of advice would be to get some books on conversions. The online links are fine too though. Check out YouTube, there is always something there of value and nothing beats watching someone in action.

My second advice would be to look at ProCreate. From what I have read, it is easier to handle and has all of the positives that Green Stuff has.

By the way, unless you are creating masters for vulcanized molds, Green Stuff may be more expensive than other alternatives like Milliput. I do think that Green Stuff has a softer texture and works better in some situations though. But again, buy ProCreate next time if you can. You should find it is a bit easier to work with.

Not all Milliput is the same. I use Milliput constantly and love it, but I only use the yellow grey Milliput that comes in the red and white box (aka Standard Milliput/the cheapest) because it gets hard as a rock when it sets up whereas my experience with the other types of Milliput (black and white box and blue and white box) is that they set up bendable. It's a matter of taste.

In very simple terms there are three basic shapes you need as start-points – a flat rolled-out pastry flat, which you can roll to different thicknesses and cut to shape to make clothing, tarps, flags etc as well as straps, pouches and the like. A ball, which is a good start point for heads and helmets, and a sausage, which can be cut into lengths for hats, caps, and rolls of pretty much anything. Build up whatever you want to sculpt from these shapes and then get creative.

Use a releasing agent, and mix it slow drying if you are just getting going: to give yourself time to screw up and start again :). BTW – don't buy green stuff from GW or the like, buy it off ebay by the metre, no more expensive than Milliput, and a different product. Milliput is not sculptable like Green Stuff. Think of green stuff as plasticine (modelling clay) that sets hard. Milliput is more useful for filling holes and making things that you want to work after its set hard and improving surfaces, like squadron's green putty (I use both). Those two products key attribute is that you can work them when hard with sandpaper and files. Green stuff you work when soft with sculpting tools.

James

I've found that I increasingly mix more blue than yellow as I think this gives a harder less bendy finished piece. I find Greenstuff easier to work with than Milliput but I'm told the latter can be sanded to a very thin edge if you want to.

Is Pro-create available in the UK? If it is easier to use I'd be interested in trying that instead.

Google for buy ProCreate putty in the U.K.

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Here is a thread on sculpting putties:

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