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but 'Leftenant'... WHAT??? There's no way for them to explain their way out of that one... nope! While talking Leftenant, ... how about Lieutenant Colonel Leftenant ... as in .. Lieutenant Colonel Mary Leftenant https://www.massapequapost.com/articles/mary-leftenant-amityville-memorial-hs-graduate-...

It's not clear to me why anyone would mess around with improvised and less than satisfactory solutions like brake fluid, bleach, or Coke, when the ScaleCoat stuff is reasonably priced, does a better job, and is readily available from trustworthy sources like Walthers. Some of it might be an effect ...

TurkeyVolumeGuessingMan wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:00 pmCoca Cola. It might not work as quickly, but it is gentler on the plastic than bleach.

It has worked for me though it had to sit long enough for the Coke to begin getting moldy.
So, might want to refresh the Coke after several days.

Looking at those, I always use ScaleCoat paint remover, available from model railroad sources. That clear/yellow undercoat is a lacquer coating and VERY labor intensive to remove....if you can. Depends on the era/age of the chrome parts.....some undercoat I never get off.......the model car guys (me...

This all qualifies as cool stuff

Ah, noted. Thanks for making the effort to do and share that test.

gsb5w wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 5:28 pmRight now I’m sure i cant trust anyone’s speculations as accurate unless it was released by the company.

Why would you trust the company, everything they release is going to have been massaged by the public relations lawyers.

... but I've been informed that Rustoleum, as of today, May 7t, 2020 is stopping the entire Testors product line. I'm trying to figure out how that old French proverb, "The more things change the more they remain the same" applies to this. Does it mean the more the owner changes the more ...

If you haven't already, even though the US here and Europe there are quite different, I'd suggest contacting the model railway community there in your country to inquire if there may or may not be paint remover products available there.

The model railroad hobby - in the US - has had plastic safe paint removers since at least the 1980s, for example, https://www.walthers.com/paint-stripper-remover-for-plastics-16oz-473ml-bottle It is reusable. Works on plastic and/or metal parts. But --- it and resin do NOT play together well, in my ...

This from the model train paint suppliers takes chrome off in less than an afternoon, often in less than 30 minutes.
Is what I used to de-chrome the Pilgrim Observer parts this past summer.

Yellowing over time is not a new phenomena, I have a 5 to 8 year old only partly used bottle which got forgotten about in the back of the pantry and it has visibly yellowed. EDIT: it seems to be older than 5, closer to 8, judging by copyright date on label. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/492669...

A couple things from my experience using Tamiya acrylics since the became available in Virginia in mid 1980s. Good ol' common rubbing alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, makes an excellent remover for styrene or ABS plastic, or metal, parts. Paint will rinse right off after soaking 15 to 30 minutes, usually...

Patrik wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:20 pmThey are also readily available not too far from here.

That can be a quite large factor in the equation.

The first few Guillows kits I ever had were bought at a drugstore. Also recall the time when you can find a few model kits over at the supermarket Ahh, I remember similar days in the 1960s and 70s. Buying Aurora's 1/48 tanks at the local hardware store. The K Mart in Macon, GA, getting what seemed ...

That setup is 'Industrial Scale' compared to what I have; a little compressor about the size of a hiking boot and no tank at all!
But then, upper floor apartments generally tend to not have much basement space.

One other thing I thought of today, is it critical to have a moisture trap for the compressor when airbrushing acrylics? I am thinking it would be very little water? Consider it critical for any paint. Remember, as the compressor compresses the air it also compresses any and all humidity in the air...

I've been using Tamiya acrylics since the mid 1980s for both model trains and plastic models. I have not used their newer enamels and lacquers or their paint markers. Have used their spray paint. On the easy removal of the acrylic from both models and airbrushes, soak painted object in rubbing alcoh...

That might depend on whether it is Model Master enamel or Model Master Acryl.

I am autistic and my initial reaction (at 06:44 in the morning) to this article is, umm, no, and neither do vaccines. women exposed to common paint chemicals at work are more likely to have a child with autism spectrum disorder. My mother was a hospital dietitian before and when she was pregnant wit...

Let's see, Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:40 pm, to, Thu Jul 04, 2019 8:27 pm, that means it was pretty much a 5 year mission to model the 5 year mission!

And, yeah, it was worth the wait.

Hey, pretty cool. Interesting about scaling the whole deal to work with that one part. Expect that is fairly common in this sort of thing.

is it better to build the whole model then paint the base coat, or is it better to paint the base coat on sub-structures, then assemble and do touch ups? That is one of those either this or that questions which go like: Q: Either this or that? A: Yes. It depends on the structure of the specific mod...

Have several things at Shapeways bookmarked to get, so this will be a conversation of interest. Edit: Do remember the forum for Starfire board/miniatures game has info as they have minis at Shapeways. Also know several model train forums have info as a lot of people have been making model train part...

Appreciate the update. The liquid in this recently un-buried bottle of multiple years age has yellowed a bit which has me looking for new and not knowing which shapeshifting identity the product has currently assumed. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4632/39721195091_c5322d4cb1.jpg https://farm5.stati...

Okay, thanks. Appreciate your confirmation.

And now I'm thinking wouldn't it be a hoot if Aves had a customer service rep named Abbey who joined in here and said "Hi, I'm the Abbey of Aves!"

TER-OR wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:24 pmConsternation yielded to invention,

Can that be buzzword hybridized as constervention?

I am using it on a resin kit where I joined two parts... About a week or so ago I used for the first time Aves' Apoxie Sculpt to make some fillets/joint reinforcements on a sci-fi kitbash from plastic models and for filling the backs of some Monogram/Revell 1/32 Apollo astronauts which will some da...

And google finds someone who as indeed done that scene, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/683280574686564316

Simple answer is to go to Star Wars dot com and find images like this, and go, "Okay, it's that big compared to that thing" and go by proportions without worrying about specific numerals. https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/open-uri20150608-27674-1lg1jny_fbd2f4de.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1...