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the '54 I used Bondo Glazing & Spot Putty® from my
local discount house. It was inexpensive, only about three
bucks for the tube. It may have been because it was a new
tube, but when I first opened it, the putty seemed very thin. |
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| Here's
the rear pan on the '54 with the first coat of the Bondo.
Because of the thinness of the filler, more than one coat
was required to fill the seam completely. |
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Bondo
applied to the front pan of the '54.
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I used 3M Acryl-Green Spot Putty on the '55. It was much more
expensive, $20 at a local auto aupply store. But the size
of the tube was much larger than the Bondo. Almost a lifetime
modeling supply... |
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| The
3M putty was much thicker, and I liked the way it went on
much better. |
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| Here's
the rear pan of the '55, filled and ready for sanding. |
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The sprue-glue
filler on the '53 cured and sanded. Of the three fillers, the sprue-glue
had the least amount of shrinkage. It was also the hardest of the
three to sand. |
Here's the rear
pan of the '53 after the first sanding and shaping. |
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