Poster putty is also great for dry fitting miniatures to work on the pose or to see where/how components fit if you plan on painting your model or miniature is sub-assemblies. You can use a small amount of poster tack to temporarily stick pieces onto the main portion of the miniature/model, and as mentioned, tweak the pose or what have you. This is also great for kits with multiple component options so you can see which one you like, whether its alternate heads, arms, wings, etc before applying your glue.

Two optional uses of Poster Putty: My art desk is a drafting table with a slant. I use the putty to keep brushes from rolling away. Either a dot on the stick of brush, or speedbumps on the table surface. Second use is building elaborate "drying rigs" When i do washes, i want gravity to help the wash to settle while it's drying. I put a glob in shallow bowl or paper plate, add the mini upside down or whatever angle is needed for gravity assist, and let it dry that way.

You can use it to hold parts in a stable position while you glue them

I have recently taken up Flames of War and have found that my painting queue is long and it is impossible for me to get my starting forces all painted and in time for matches. Instead of fielding empty stands, I use the putty to hold figures to the bases so I can play with the soldiers in position (even though unpainted); it allows me to game immediately, and then week by week, to take some of the platoons off and paint them as I go. I also use the putty to hold bases to empty cookie tin boxes so I can transport them without damaging them - it saves me from investing money on the fancier foam travel cases. I've never had a figure damaged in transport since I started using the putty to hold them down (and it doesn't peel any paint off the bottoms of the completed figures). I just found your channel - really enjoying it so far - please keep them coming! :)

I use poster putty to dry fit models or see how they'll look in different poses.

I have used it to fill large cavities then hardened it with a thin layer of super glue then finished with green stuff.

I just started with painting and converting tabletop minis... and you made my life a lot easier now. Thanks a lot!

This stuff is so very useful for so many things. Even just making stupid sculptures if you're bored. I always keep a couple of packages of it on hand.

Good stuff, I think this is what we call blue tac in the UK.

Been striping some old mini's. Been using poster putty, to press into the mini and pick out any of the old paint. That might have been left in the fine detail areas.

I'm new to warhammer and models in general and I have to say your videos have been a fantastic way to learn how to model. Your video on wet palet Litterally saved the joy of painting for me.

poster putty saved my second and third marriage

Also useful for magnet joints to prevent unwanted wobble or rotation. I got a little bit of poster putty in the shoulder, gun and torso magnet joints in my Revenant titan. The same goes for the one or other Wraithknight or Wraithlord, obviously adjusted for the strength of the magnets.

Thank you for this video. I never realized how helpful this stuff could be. Btw I like the relaxed way of your videos.

Atom is enjoy your videos every Friday when I first get in the office. They definitely give me more confidence to try painting more

Putty to protect from the glue areas, genius! Thank you!

I sometimes use it for the Xwing game. Sometimes the posts that the ships are on are loose and the base keeps falling off when I move the ship. I just put a tiny dab of putty on the end of the post and it sticks just fine. Same with Wings of Glory. I have also put a dab on the bottom of asteroids to keep them from getting bumped during he game. It can be used on Sails of Glory ships also to keep the ships from spinning on the bases.

It's awesome for patching, too. I recently got a poorly molded EB Dire Troll that had a sizable space in his back where the two body halves didn't quite meet up. I took some trusty poster putty (I've always called it sticky tack) and packed that stuff in there, then textured it a bit, put a thin layer of super glue over it, and now I have a ballin' scar texture on my model. Never thought to use this stuff until I found your channel. Thanks Atom!

It's a great tool. I often use it for dry fitting models. Sometimes I'll use it to position one arm while I glue the other, ensuring the hand/gun join will line up in the pose i'm after. I also tend to stick 5 men at a time to a strip of cardboard so I can quickly undercost/basecoat my colours in with an airbrush. It's also super handy for painting lots of really small items together. I'll often have grenades or backpacks stuck around the top of a GW paint pot so I can paint them before attaching them to the model later.

Poster putty is much better than the green tack stuff. I find that stuff not as tacky and also it sticks to the model and is very difficult to get off.

Thanks for all the content!

Yep blue tac here in the UK. Great video.

Its also good to do mockups on models esspecially if you plan to sculp green stuff joints etc so you can get an idea of how it all will go together.

great idea's! I have some kickstarters like the Edge Dawnfall that I will use these techniques on.

I always wondered if this was possible. Thanks for confirming before I experimented.

I just started painting Hot Wheels and this is exactly what I needed for more complex paint jobs. Thanks.

Thanks for the tips, Atom. Entertaining and educational as always.

Thanks for the tip, I’m using it for masking and a variety of uses.

Blu-tac/poster putty/sticky fix/etc., is also good at filling the gaps in the old slot-bases for Warhammer miniatures. I managed to get a free/loose 35mm base after one of my Tomb Banshees came without a round-base, but it was a slotted one. So I just tore off from putty, wedged it into the gap, and then carefully trimmed/peeled away the excess until I had a snug block of putty in the slot.

i'm glad you clarified that you only want posts about hobby uses for poster puddy. That saved me from posting anything... embarrasing...

Blue Tac in the UK. once upon a time, used to use it to fill gaps with a layer of superglue over it before greenstuff was a thing too. especially on slotta bases.

when you break your model, let say at the handle of its axe or mass, where it's really thin, you can use poster putty to hold it while green stuff is drying,

Along with the uses listed in the comments and the video, I've used it in place of magnetizing various options. It lasts forever! I was converting some models that I've been using on the tabletop for years and discovered parts that were held together with poster putty that I forgot I put there. Never thought about the masking though...thanks for that tip! I will use that idea for sure! Great channel:-)

i use "blue tac" for scratch building gw. the chaos demon shown in the video when i did mine i got 2 demons out of it :) it also helps when you paint fixative over the tac when your done :)

I grab it at Dollar Tree every time I see it! I just started masking with it and it really helps.

Nice one! I use it for posing but never thought of using blu-tack to mask stuff, genius!

It is also cool for dry fitting model parts together without actually using glue - this is good to see if you like a particular pose for example.

Love the masking tip

Been using this stuff for a long time for miniatures to drawing, love it lol, also use it for my action figures that just wont stand up the way I want them too ±P

I learned to use putty, or Crayola Reusable Kids Model Clay, to hold small parts for decaling/painting/glue. Holding down the sprues of a small model piece (like a license plate), to free up your hands for detailing. However, I watch your vids for acrylic painting tips. Because some of my anime themed models, come with character miniatures; and thats why i found you. But now that i have learned from you, i'll be using it for my miniature characters/pilots and such, that come with my scale models. Just a tip/use, for putty; to share with others. Cheers.

I surround myself with blu-tack at all times. I use it for everything.

I have been modeling for many years and have used this almost since the beginning. Learned it in a military modeling guide. I did not think to use it for masking shield arms and such. I did know to use it for camo. Never tried it.I learned something, now I have to buy a shirt......

Poster putty, or Blu-Tac, or some such version of it can also be used for dry fitting miniatures. It's especially useful if you are testing poses or other customisation options.

If you've got a GW starter kit e.g. Dark Imperium, I tend to use it to stick the pieces of each model to the bases till i get to them since they fit specific bodies.

Thanks for the tips! I never thought of using it for a masking material.

in the UK we call it blue tac or white tac if its white like yours. generally the blue tac brand is the best stuff though. i use it for getting an idea of poses for my models, especially my tyranids who have lots of limbs and spiky bits to think about which may get in the way of one another!

I have used this stuff for years and man..... so many different uses.

I use it to fill hollow models because it's cheap then green stuff. I also use it before I use green to make shapes. It's good to test gaps to get an idea for the size of it

Poster putty is great to have around if your playing a game & something goes wrong with your model. Your arm just came off, or you forgot to magnetize a gun that you want to change out.... Also, on my Eldar Falcon I've had sticky tack holding the two main pieces of the hull together for years as I've never finished painting it. White putty with white primer blends great. I've always heard it called sticky tack up here in Manitoba, Canada.

We call it blutak/bluetack in Australia. Most of it comes in the colour blue or gray, so thats why. I've never seen it in a different colour, so it could just be an aussie thing

I use it to hold minis to my painting handle thingy as well, though I've never used it as masking... clever. However, I do sometimes use it to test pose minis before I glue them together and I also use it to hold metal minis together after I glue them, so I can set it down while it dries and not have to sit there and hold it the whole time. This can be veeery tricky because if you get the sticky tack in the glue, then you get a big blob of tack glued to you model that you have to carve off. To avoid this, I just stick the tack somewhere else on the mini, for instance, for my spearmen whose spears and arms are a single piece that attach to the body at the shoulders, I stick the tack to the spear shaft and their thighs, to keep the tack away from any possible excess glue. It's tricky, but it saves me from cramped fingers. I might be easier to use a super glue accelerant spray, but that's one more thing to have to have and buy, and I already have lots of sticky tack.

I use BluTac to stick a nice little row of minis to a long thin piece of wood when undercoating or varnishing with the airbrush. Great stuff. everyone in the UK would know what it is.

You can add poster putty when mixing up green stuff to make the green stuff go a little further. Use a third of each (poster putty+yellow+blue). It won't dry quite as stiff as a normal mix of green stuff, but it's great for basic use, like filling in large gaps or creating the basic shape of a model.

Until now the use I’ve found for poster putty was to pre-assemble miniatures: for example I’ve been assembling some tau battlesuits and I wanted to give them a really nice pose but I was scared of screwing it up; so what I did was putting little balls of putty in the joint areas of legs, feet and arms of the battlesuits to make them stand in pose without having to glue them so I could figure out if the pose was just the way I liked it and if it would have looked strange or not once put together

I use it to hold together a miniature as i try and decide what pose or arms or weapons they will have, dont have to try to hold everything together by hand to see what the model will be like before glueing together

I use poster tac sometimes to dry fit a model to see what It will look like, as well as use it to practice making a part that I want to make using greenstuff so I know I have the proper skill required for it.

I often use Poster Puddy (Where I am it's called Blue Tac or Glue Tac) for what you mentioned first off and also, well, testing poses, when you glue a model together your basically saying "This guy will always be in this pose" and that pose might be, really bad and ugly, so what I do is I see what works by putting Blue Tac on the limbs and such after gluing the head to the torso and the torso to the legs and just seeing what looks good. I also often find that when gluing, say, a pointing hand to your Space Marine, often the glue can take a while to dry and holding it on by hand while it does so is kind of difficult, so just put some Blue Tac to the side, put the hand on, put glue on the other side, wait for that to dry, remove the Tac and put a tiny​ bit of glue on the side you took the Tac off, I think the joint after this is a bit weaker than it is otherwise but it's easier and it shouldn't be an issue if you dont drop your mini's.

when I had Tau I used them to swap out weapons on the crisis suits, just put a little bit of blu tac in the slot on the arm and then press the weapon tab into that, when you're done with your game pull it out and roll and the tac back into a ball.

I've been using sticky tack and pill bottles for years before I saw this that's awesome!

I find that if I used either testor's model masters, or revell contacta pro, I have no trouble getting a permanent join, even through paint. But, when using CA glue, your tip is a must!

For large models with optional weapons or to make smaller for travel I use it instead of magnets if I am out of them or its an odd gap that magnetizing them will be more hassle than it's worth. Then when the game it over I can break the model down and into the case they go.

Some good tips thank you, not only on this video but alos on many more of your videos. l actually also use my blue tac for things like alternating my weapons on my defiler as l like changing the weapons occasionally depending on the battle and you cannot even see the blu tac with the weapon in place. l know you can use magnets for this but l am not that advanced yet.

I've always eyeballed the poses and fits of my space marines, I play Ultramarines. I have started using Poster Putty to do this. Makes magnetizing parts easier. I use a little bit of poster putty to hold my magnets in place, if I want to take the magnets out for any reason I just use a much stronger magnet and boom, out comes the smaller magnet.

So, I use this for filling gaps. I know some people would probably tell me that green stuff isbthe only way to go. But it expensive and I just have attempted using the putty. It seems to work pretty good and helps holding my minis together.

Dryfitting is also where i use blue tac a lot. Especially when you have a pose that involves both arms and maybe a weapon

I used Scotch double sided mounting squares 2 pound rating they work great hold models and can shake them without out falling off but not hard to remove from square. Sadly not reusable if you using spray paint...

I use the stuff to hold multiple models on a paint stirring stick while priming.

I know this video is old, but I used poster putty on some deathwatch shoulder pads for my kill team so I didn’t need a bunch of the same shoulder pads if I wanted to change what weapons were magnetised to the character. So my Black Templar Watch Sergeant with Stormshield and Xenophase blade has a single Black Templar shoulder pad and a single Deathwatch shoulder pad attached to their arms with poster putty, but if I wanted to give him a combimelta and a power maul, I just twist off the shoulder pads and attach them to the new arms. Good for pretty much any magnetisation job on an army with special space marine shoulder pads, and cheaper than casting more shoulder pads and way cheaper than buying more upgrade sprues

I have been using blue Tac in hobbying for 20 years I just assumed every one did? :) One good use is keeping ink/glaze where you want them as blue tac forms a seal so you can go a bit crazy and not worry about dripping or flowing I get some good affects on eyes with this.

The covering to keep it from getting paint on it is a great idea!!!

I use it for masking off areas when I'm dry brushing.

Wonderful.

A lot of my Tau with jet packs/drones never really sat nicely on their bases with those clear stalks that come with them. A bit of blue tac in the hole on the base and BAM! stuck tighter than a tin can on a stick!

This might sound a little weird, but when I get a kit where you can make a model in multiple ways, instead of magnetizing, I use blu tac. I stick tiny pieces on to make it stick. Most of the time it is unnoticeable, and my models aren't display pieces anyway so. Great Video!

Hey .... Nice Shirt! :) Cracking up ... I wrote this before the commercial popped up. LOL

Oh my goodness this video was so useful thanks.

I've used poster putty to attach WYSIWYG bits to models that I haven't magnetized (either because it's a unit that I built before I started magnetizing or units that aren't worth mag'ing; like testing out adrenal glands on a brood of termagants)

great for holding glued parts in place as the glue sets

you can keep it on you to attach that one guys arm back on that keeps falling off during games so he still looks okay for the game, before taking him home to repair him at a later time.

I'm new to miniatures (well, besides painting them in my pre-/early teens many moons ago), and I'm loving this channel. Seriously, great job on this videos, they're fantastic. Looking forward to catching up on the 'back catalogue' and watching your forthcoming contributions. Thanks for your work, keep it up :)

A Nurgle Warriors army glued paint to paint might be fun, you'd never know which bit is going to fall off mid-game.

Sticky Tack is boss. I use it all the time, but the biggest use is on my knights. I modify where any arm can fit any weapon and then, I tack them on before I play.

Also, when test fitting and assembling, you will see where gap filling needs to take place.

Great ideas thank you

i like to use this when i prime a lot of models

OMG revelation! I can paint the red cross on my death company vehicles by rolling out blue tack and measuring an X out! thank you so much!

Used it for a gap fill and covered and filled in the part where a shoulder met the rest of the body.

I roll it out with a glass cup and cut shapes I need for intricate stuff like menoth models.

Thank you uncle Atom...I had the putty and I did not see the use of it! I will use it next time to spray sharp edges on my tanks

I actually use the stuff on the table for certain models and weapons options where it will not be seen or only a small amount is needed. example chaos terminators tiny bit on the spikey bits boom regular marine terminator becomes an agent of chaos. demon Prince is foot slogging it this round don't blue tac on the wings. not running hurricane bolters on a storm Raven? take em off because they are blue tacked on. as long as the paint was dry it doesn't peel off the model paint in my experience even if it is stored with it there

I'm using it in basing. I get the base done. Get the model built. Then I poster putty them to the base to spray base coat so I can get them both sprayed at the same time without having to glue them together

We just call it prestick... Its funny how you mentioned you need to get this and it will help you to mount your models. In my country we use it a lot for normal everyday things, so it's basically found in 90% of households. Because of this, everyone starts by using this to mount models and it's referred to as the cheap painting handle... Never thought of using it to mask for camo or other spraying but that might be because I don't own a airbrush and predominantly use paint on primer. Not that I've done this before but I suppose the way you stopped the glueing area to be painted, you can mount the other section if you doing like a paint job that requires a pattern that must match so you can temporarily mount it, paint the bridging part and the finish the pieces separately

Great video. I always enjoy watching, and these pro tips are really cool. One tip you have talked about in the past is using baking soda as a basing material. I've tried it and I can't seem to get it right, it would be good to see you demo this for us. like you I'm not a fan of over course basing materials. keep the videos coming.

I know this is off topic, but there's a guy on youtube called "buypainted" who uses old latex gloves for masking off his models for when he airbrushes his weapons. Just poke the weapon through part of the glove and the elasticity holds the seal pretty well.

Silly Putty works also. Nice video.

"Fun Tack...ooh, that does sound fun." LOL!

I like using poster putty but I've been using silly putty for my masking lately. Since silly putty has a slight greasy feel you can leave it on overnight and not have to worry about it taking off paint. I also had trouble with poster putty leaving sticky bits all over the model. Silly putty tends to work better for me.

I have used poster putty so long for holding models while painting it started to stink and fall apart. But was still sticky so i used it till the smell got to bad. I figure it was the paint and maybe sweat causing the smell.

My friend uses it to choose different weapon options for his eldar wraith knight a bit like magnetizing it

If you have paint on an area that needs gluing just use super glue rather than plastic glue. I have some cheap super glue that is for some reason amazing. Dries quickly and rock solid!