Milliput 2-Part Self Hardening Putty, Terracotta

I have a terra Cotta sun face big hanging plaque that had hairline cracks & chips, dents, etc... I got from my parents that hung it off their patio brick wall for years. I hung it but living in colder climate thought I should put it in storage for winter. Well, that's when the cracks happened. I tried gorilla glue & products like that, just made a mess & looked ugly. Then I discovered the milliputt product which also came in terra Cotta. Super simple to use, just knead the "glue" putty with the "terracotta" putty and like a sculpture, carefully kneading in the cracks, dents, chips, water flaws you want to fix. I was able to shape the putty to fill in to match the designs on the plaque. It dried hard & well. It's not a exact match as this terracotta plaque is aged with weather discoloring. I like the discoloring because it made the plaque look more weathered interesting looking. It's hanging from my deck now in strong full sun. Holding up strong!

Good purchase to repair sculptures

I bought this after seeing it used by a professional ceramics restorer on YouTube. This was the brand that pros prefer. I am repairing a terracotta sculpture that broke; using this to rebuild the missing areas. Because the fired clay of my piece was made from a particularly coarse-grained clay, I mixed some coarse sand into the epoxy to get a closely matching texture and appearance. I also tinted it with some black powdered pigment. It is working beautifully! Very high quality, easy to handle product.

Worked perfectly for the repair and reconstruction of a terra cotta/ stone lawn plant decoration. Easy to work with and paint - follow the instructions, let it set up, and you are good to go. I used it to completely re-create and mold missing sections!

This is good stuff. I use it regularly in my restoration work. The product was fresh (important). It's easy to use and works like a dream. I'll be back for more. It has so many uses.

I love this stuff for pottery repairs

Worked great on this rice jar that I had purchased online and was broken in transit. Gorilla glued the main section back on but the rim was in so many tiny shards it was impossible to put back together. This putty worked great and filled in this English terracotta really well. It takes a few minutes to kneed the two parts together you have to work at it. I wore some some thin plastic gloves and worked it out on parchment paper, not a perfect smooth sculpture job but it hardened up overnight and it's held up, bonded well. I smoothed it out with a wet terry rag to get it to blend in.

This could be a great product, but it has serious flaws. First of all, even coming straight out of the package the material is very stiff and hard to work. You have to blend two compounds together, which takes a bit of time. Once that’s done, you’re working time is very brief because it starts to harden quite quickly. After 15 minutes it’s no longer usable — it’s stiff, no longer adheres to the surface of whatever you’re working on, and starts to flake and crumble. My advice would be to make a very small quantity at a time and keep doing tiny batches until you have your repair done. I’m working on a very small repair but I’m going to have to redo some parts tomorrow because toward the end, the patch was simply too dry to adhere. You can’t really use water to soften it either. I left a chunk of it sitting in a glass of water just to see if I could make slip out of it, and the piece dried rock hard even underwater. It might soften with acetone or some other solvent, but I haven’t tried. There is no useful information in this regard on the packaging. Given how fast it dries out, I’m probably going to wind up wasting almost the entire package because I don’t see any way to store it that will prevent it from setting.