Milliput & P38 filler OK together?

[Radleigh]

As title? The IL-76 will need filler soon and I'm going to use some P38 for a change. Never used Milliput before so I don't know what the two are like together.

Cheers all...

Radders

[Alex Gordon]

I would think so,Milliput is a solid lump once it's set and P 38 is fairly benign stuff to use so one could be used on top of the other.Milliput is easily shaped using water before it's set.

[viscount806x]

Make sure you work the Milliput into shape with a wet finger or plastic tool etc. while it is still pliable, saves an awful lot of hard sanding.

[Scratchbuilder]

Also, if you use the hard Milliput and the soft P38/Tetrosyl/.... together on the same area you will cut the P38 back a lot quicker than the Milliput, making life very difficult for yourself. I'd stick to Milli. I use it exclusively for my master work where needed.There's always the slip with the chisel, the mis-interpreted drawing, the late change of info. requiring changes and the beauty of Milliput is that it sticks like poo to the swadlings and can be smoothed on with a wet thumb or spat upon knife blade.

If the rather dull little town of Dolgellau should be remembered for anything it is as the home of Milliput!

Always use the yellow-green version. The white tends not to set so hard and I have had it crumble, not so the yellow green one which is fine enough for anyone and much finer grained than any car body polyester filler. Never forget that polyester fillers use a hardener which WILL kill your liver if you get it in a cut or open wound. Milli is safe.

I find that I always mix too much Milli, so I always have more than one job on the go at once. 6 currently! I set it off overnight on the top of my telly's digi-box where the gentle heat does a good job. A 30 Watt desk lamp over it will set it even quicker. I just don't happen to have one. By the time I've done the clean up/mods. on two models the third and fourth are ready to be worked on. And so on, round and round...no wasted Milli, variety spicing life and a lot of work done. Wins all round.

Cheers,

Martin