As you can see the runt is pretty full of gaps, so I thought I'd try out one of my new tools, Tamiya's Basic Putty.
The downside: It smells (like cancer, probably because it's full of toluene or some other delicious organic solven) and it's a bit hard to work with, because it dries fast.
The upside: it smells (like model glue/cancer), and it dries fast.
Keen eyed readers will note that the strengths and weaknesses are surprisingly similar... The material dilutes well with model glue and (not a huge surprise given its odor), and according to the instructions, (for those who care enough to read them), one can also dilute it with lacquer thinner. I've seen videos where people dissolve sprues in modeling glue to make "sprue-goo" to fill gaps, this is basically an entire tube of sprue-goo.
I guess there's another upside; it doesn't shrink (appreciably). As many of you are aware this is completely opposite to something like "Liquid Green Stuff", which on average takes 2n + 1 coats before it gives the desired results (n = integer representing an annoyingly large number of already applied coats).
Cheers,
HMP
