Occasionally I see a reference to Durham's water putty and the use always seems to be somewhere I would use joint compound, sculptamold or fusion fiber. Does this have some unique property that makes it better suited to certain applications such as roadways or is it just a matter of personal preferences?
Thanks
joe
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Doubt it. It's an old school product. I have it, and never use it.
It is useful in simulating road surfaces. It drys very hard, so a thin coating of it applied over something like foam core will produce nice convincing cracks and spalling.
Other than that, I agree that other materials are superior.
Nice work, Pete. 
It's best quality, it does not shrink. Dries hard as a rock. You can sand it,drill it.
Doug
I've used it for simulating asphalt roads. 
Works for me!
Chief Bob (Retired) 
Compared to joint compound, sets quickly and is quite hard. Does not sand easily. Used primarily for underlayment touch-up/adjustments and seam feathering, before soft floor sheet goods are installed. Here is a Photobucket slide show on a layout build. The big plus, to using materials like this, for grade fillers, is that a lot of the scenery products are expensive. If you adjust your layout ups and downs with this stuff, the amount of final scenery product is significantly less. IMO. The diorama pictured is flat, surprisingly there is a lot of adjustment.
I love the B.T.S. station! If I hadn't built my own, I was doing to build that one. It's a great model and you did a great job building it.
I've used it to build country roads where condition is typically rough, cracked etc. I also use it to coat home made tree trunks, it allows me to sculpt the tree trunks with a bark texture and to add a natural tree base as it meets the ground surface. This is an old product, and worth a second look before discounting it's value....inexpensive too.
Bob
All of the above. I use it for all my roads:
That is one great looking road!
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