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Sad news indeed. He is missed. He made the world a little better.

Thanks Rogviler,

Thanks for doing the tests to provide us with facts.

Mike

Thanks

DaveVan,

Please let us know.

Johnson & Johnson has an 800 number.

800-558-5252
https://contact.scjbrands.com/en-us

I'm on a prepay and don't want to burn up tens of dollars of phone time only to talk to an operator who doesn't have access to the information needed to answer my question.

Mike

Kylwell, Thanks for looking this up. Your saying Pledge Floor Gloss: https://www.pledge.com/en-us/products/pledge-floor-gloss Is not the same as the Future we knew and loved and that our cherished acrylic floor covering is gone for good. So FineScale is wrong about this? I'm sure the Alclad product ...

The last time I checked a supermarket, the acrylic floor covering we all love was gone. There was a Pledge product for floors but it was a cleaner not an acrylic clear coat. I chalked it up to COVID-19 shortages. An Alclad video seemed to claim that Future is gone for good and promoted on of their p...

Thanks!

Super Clean is your best bet.

http://www.bonediggers.com/1-3/strip/strip.html

A few years ago at Wonderfest, someone made a Superman model with comic book coloring and shading by black lines and crosshatching. It was amazing. No matter what angle you photographed it from it looked like a 2D cutout. I think it won a gold.

Super Clean

Hi Chas,

I've never used one but a lot of serious car modelers use automotive touch-up guns on their models.

Paul Budzik has at least one video on automotive spray guns for models.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9UUZI ... B7A/videos

Mike

Thanks for posting.

I remember your build from therpf.

Hi jgoldader, At a model club meeting decades ago, some of us complained about the troubles we had with dust. Others claimed they never had dust problems. The modelers with dust problems were all single. Married modelers were dust free. Apparently, the presence of a woman in the house keeps dust and...

Wave, Kotobukiya and maybe Volks sell small rocket nozzles intended for detailing Gundam kits. If the Starship Modeler Store can't order them for you, Hobbysearch and HLJ sell them.

Mike

xkcd is the comic for computer security.

https://xkcd.com/327/

I like Novus plastic polish. https://www.novuspolish.com/index.html You can probably find it locally at glass shops and plastic shops and occasionally from model contest vendors. Novus 2 is good for most model polishing. Novus 3 is for heavier scratches. Follow it with Novus 2. With Future you don't...

If you have any Ma & Pa hardware stores left, check to see if they sell scraps of cut window plastic. Years ago I picked up a lot of the stuff for cheap. It's about 1/8 inch thick. I think it's made from PETE so you'll probably need to use epoxy.

SuperClean is not sodium hydroxide.

http://supercleancanada.com/MSDS/EN_Sup ... -23-11.pdf

looking good

Broken toys from flea markets and thrift stores. Water guns. Broken headphones. Cheap kits from vendors at model contests.

Mike

Old time vinyl modelers used Mountains in Minutes, a two-part foam for model railroaders. I've never been able to find it. I've used aerosol foam from the hardware store. Avoid the "minimal expansion foam," it expands with enough force to distort parts. Be careful with the stuff. Once it g...

Hi aussie cylon,

What are you trying to do?

Are you trying to replicate the color of the actual car?

Are you trying to replicate the color of the car as it appears on film?

Are you going for a scale effect of one of the above?

Are you doing something completely different?

Mike

onezero,

So far so good.

Thanks

Mike

Is the vinyl really vinyl and not polyethylene? Don't let styrene and vinyl touch. The vinyl might soften. Create a barrier between the two materials. Put a thin layer of epoxy on one part. Let it set. Epoxy it to the other.

Is it possible for a new members first post or first few posts go through a moderator before they hit the board?

On the old forum it was possible to login to check your new personal messages without reseting the forum posts that are new to you.

Now, when you login and check your personal messages does this reset the forum posts that are new to you?

Mike

Thanks!

Great model!

Mike

How do you log in to only check personal messages?

Hi ptitrainrouge,

Please post inline images. The forum allows them now.

Thanks,

Mike

Thanks for the inline images.

Please keep sig images banned. sights like FineScale are so repulsively ugly I can't look at them for more than about thirty seconds. They make me see sick.

Thanks

Mike