Post-Processing a 3D Printed Dragon Part 4: Filling in the model gaps

Alright, finally part 4 into this series!

Last time we ended with all of the model halves glued together. This time, we get to deal with one of the byproducts of that: the model gap.

[picture of model gap]

_{Example of a model gap}

A model gap is pretty much exactly as it sounds - an air gap between parts of the model. In my case this gap was the area between the halves that I glued together.

Now, leaving the gap in would've been fine since sometimes it doesn't usually hurt the model aesthetically, but I wanted to see if I could do something about it.

And lucky for me, there is a way to deal with these gaps! Turns out there's this stuff called modeling putty that's made exactly for this reason - you fill in the gaps, let it dry, sand off any remainder and away you go.

And here it is initially applied to each piece:

And after that was sanded down a bit:

The only issue I ran into was that some of the putty didn't fill in correctly and actually fell out of the gaps when I trimmed/sanded the putty down:

So I had to fill those gaps in again and re-sand. Not that difficult to do, but still something to watch out for.

So far I'm liking how this model is turning out! Next up will be the start of priming/painting, so look forward to that!

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Previous Parts:
Part 3: Gluing the halves together
Part 2: Trimming and De-warping
Part 1: The print