Thread: Broken scale repair?

I have a razor that has school bus yellow plastic/celluloid scales with bolsters. I paid $25 for it on Ebay (years ago) and when I got it one scale was broken in two (not at a pin).

I made a deal with the seller to keep it for a $15 refund. I used some superglue and it held for a while and was a pretty clean repair.

Later the bond popped open and when I redid it I guess I didn't get the two parts in perfect alignment so you can see the line where the two parts come together now.

I tried to find some matching nail polish to apply over the crack line but I have to build it up too thick to hide the line and it doesn't really look all that great.

Is there a tip or trick to making a fast and dirty cosmetic repair for broken (non-black) scales?

This is a good shaving razor, inexpensive but fairly good looking and I'd like to just make it a little better.

If this were a guitar with a blemish, the nail polish trick would be an acceptable coverup. It's just not working well in this case.

I had a cheap shaving brush where the rubber handle was cracking and I stabilized things with superglue, smoothed things out with household spackle (easy to form and sand) and then I painted the handle and it was an acceptable repair for a cheap brush.

I don't want to spray paint the scales but I wondered if I could do something similar such as sanding over the superglue repair, molding something over the visible repaired crack that would hide the crack and then use nail polish over that.

I could try spackle again but I wondered if there was something better for such a small repair?