Using Poster Putty or Fun-Tack

[Dave Mikrut]

Here's a tip for you. For preliminary fitting and locating, I use a product called Poster Putty,

or Fun-Tack. It held these wheel wells in place so I could test fit the body on to my chassis.

It will also hold them in place while I flow my liquid cement into the seam. It has many uses,

I've even used it to hold old interior buckets in place instead of gluing them.

[MikeBoyle]

Love that stuff!

[Robyn]

I also use it to hold small parts on either scrap sprue or tooth picks for painting. Once you have the part painted you can kneed the putty and the paint pops off so it can be used over and over. Obviously you place this in a location that will not be seen on the finished part.

Robyn

[patrol52]

One of the 4-H model rules was the model has to be attached to the display case base, and I absolutely hate tying down the model, so a small disc of this at each wheel will hold it down and keep it immobile (especially if it actually rolls, though mine rarely do.)

I will have to try using it to hold those parts that are un-holdable while painting. Sounds like a good idea.

[Zoom Zoom]

I can't live without it!

I use it for temporary assembly, holding parts while painting, and I have a few models that have a bit of it holding something permanently

[larrygre]

The stuff is also good for masking camouflage schemes on aircraft models. That's where I first learned about using Fun-Tak. Been a part of my toolbox ever since.

[jbwelda]

the one thing (two things actually) that i dont like about it is that it seems to really stick to skin (when youre trying to stick it to something else) and its kind of hard to clean up completely from pieces youve used it on...until you know the secret to both situations.

the secret? it sticks best to itself. that means if you take a little gob of it and push it on and off some that is sticking to a panel or your finger, it will clean itself up by sticking to the gob of itself and lift pretty much completely off the surface in question and/or your hands.

but i usually only use very small amounts of it to hold tiny parts for painting or position; what i describe above doesnt seem to be as much a problem when youre using relatively large amounts of it like in the photos above.