Cleaning Green Stuff after Filing

[tring]

In the past, to stop my green stuff sculpts from looking rough after they had been filed I have painted watered down gloss over the filed area to revert it back to its greeny goodness. Is there a better way of doing this?

 

[Einion]

First off I\'d try to avoid having to file. But if you have to you can smooth the area better than the file leaves it with very fine abrasive paper/film - the finer the better. I have some 2,000 or finer and it\'ll leave GS pretty darned smooth.

You can repolish the surface of all putties, including GS, if you go to the ultra-fine grits, the kind of thing you\'ll find on a nail buffer - the ones I see are usually one side grey/white, the other pink. Whichever is the finer side (feels like there\'s no abrasive at all, just cloth) is something like 15,000 or 20,000 grit.

Anyone know, are there any very strong solvents that dissolve dried GS?

Einion

 

[demonherald]

a lot of paint strippers do but not without comprimising the GS....

I recently found the joys of abrasive papers ..Tamiya were easiest to get hold of and I generally attack it first by cutting with a sharp knife and find this gets most of the smoothness I need... Next I use a needle file followed by P320 and finally p2000... comes up like glass but is a fair bit of work..

Easier sill I have found that mixing either milliput or Magi sculp in with the original Greenstuff meansthat it works smoother in the first place and sanding is a hell of a lot easier...

 

[Shawn R. L.]

I go to about 400-600 wet dry sand paper and that\'s plenty smooth.

 

[QuietiManes]

Heh. I hate sanding/filing GS. Depending on the shape of the area, sometimes I\'ll just cut it off as needed with a sharp razor or xacto blade. If I absoloutely need to sand/file, I\'ll just cut off what needs sanding and resculpt the area so it doesn\'t need sanding OR resculpt it with Milliput or something that sands better. Sounds destructive but it\'s got to be faster than sanding down to 2000+ grit, 4-600 is probably equivalent if not faster than sculpting anything other than a flat surface though.

 

[tring]

Thanks for the suggestions, I tend to use a mixture of the techniques suggested, also try using a varnish on your sanded GS to get it smooth, it works.