Filling n by Frank Spahr Being a dentist by profession, and modeller by interest, I have been using some tools and materials from dental supply that I think might be interesting for other readers of these pages. When you see what dental technicians do at work, the similarities with our hobby are evident.
Many techniques easily blend into our modelling work.
For some, you'll only need some basic materials, for others, the aid of a dentist or a dental technician. Using Dental Wax as Filler One of the jobs that I wholeheartedly dislike is filling gaps. It vividly reminds me of the monstrous resin tooth we had to make quite early in dental school, a tooth 9 cm long and 3 wide and deep, and I can tell you, that meant lots of sanding. As long as the filler is not required to improve the model's structural stability and it need not be applied over wide areas, dental casting wax is a very suitable and time-saving alternative. Nowadays, most filling means closing comparatively small gaps, most often at the wing roots of aircraft models, and this is where wax is the winning alternative.