The Little World

I have taken the – so far – free advice from Phil Flory and made up a jar of Sprue Goo.

The Evergreen plastic card was from the surplus scrap bin – a little brown and a lot of white chipped up and dissolved in Supercheap Auto lacquer thinner. It was an overnight success and is even more so when I thin it to suit different gaps. Note: You cannot thin it further with regular Mr Color Thinner – it goes chewy and exudes an oily pink fluid. Stick to the hot Supercheap.

It is easy to dip down into gaps using a cocktail stick – sets hard overnight, and sands just like the plastic it fills. Scribes well, too. The engine nacelles were delicate things but in the end all the appropriate panel lines went back in.

I shall continue to use up the tubes of Mr Hobby white filler and the water-based Perfect Plastic Putty, but once they’re gone I can see myself just relying on Mr. Surfacer and this Sprue Goo. I suppose I would be contravening trademarks if I called it Mr Sprue Goo.

Note – it can be brushed on in the thinnest form – as long as you clean the brushes pretty soon after applying it. I think it would be a mistake to make it from the same plastic as the kit – there would be no contrast to tell you when you were approaching the seam.