Quick update from the past couple of days. I pinned and glued most of the two part pieces and filled the gaps using epoxy putty. Below is the robe piece in a vice while the epoxy glue dries.
I took some videos of the processes while I continued work on her. Seams were filled with epoxy glue, then once the glue cured, I threw on some epoxy putty, and finished the rest of the night puttying the hair and other pieces that needed it.
With this update, I added three new tutorials to my tutorials page:
Resin Figure Pinning
Resin Figure Flash/Mold Line Removal
Resin Figure Gap Filling
Lookin good! What brands of epoxy glue and putty do you use Gam?
Watch the videos, all your questions should be answered :D But the putty is tamiya epoxy quick type. I don’t remember the brand of epoxy glue, but it is a 5 minute expoy and you should be able to see the brand labels in one of the videos…
I’ve just got to say that the video tutorials have been very helpful; I’ve picked up quite a few tips for techniques I didn’t know before, and for better ways to do the building steps I already do. The one showing how to do faded weathering without an airbrush was especially helpful. Also, I’ll definitely have to switch to the Tamiya putty; a workable timeframe of an hour sure beats the 30 seconds or so that my current choice of Squadron White goes for! :D
Keep up the great work!
Thanks! I have used other epoxy putties such as aquamend and milliput. I find that milliput’s consistency is too clay like and I didn’t care for that. The aquamend, which is fairly cheap, sands down to a rough surface, even after fine tune sanding. Tamiya Epoxy Putty smooth type takes a little too long to cure and was still soft to the touch when it was cured.
I find myself buying Tamiya Epoxy Putty Quick Type every time I see it in a hobby shop. Of late, the stuff has become hard to find as tamiya is doing something with their labels. Most of my local shops are out of the stuff, I may have to order some from Japan.
The nice thing to the epoxy putty is that it cures via chemical reaction as opposed to evaporation like most basic putties cure; this reduces the shrinkage that occurs.