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Sounds to me like glow in the dark paints. If so you can find such paints at any craft store like Michaels or Craft Wearehouse. There's also a glow in the dark substance you can add to any color paint of you choosing, and they are acrylic based.

Depending on how big a gap to be filled some times I'll glue scrap plastic into the gap and then putty.
Besides don't all putties shrink??
Something else I do is after the putty has dried and been sanded I'll brush some paint on the area which I puttied to see if there are any small gaps.

Checked out the web sites for a couple of LHSs today and Tammies Hobbies carries the Vallejo putty and I went there this afternoon and picked up a bottle of it, they don't seem to carry it in a tube. Tried it on the back of the AMT 18" Enterprise and it was dry in just a few minutes. No more he...

How much does it run for??

Using acrylic paints I discovered they will not stick to bare styrene so you'll need to paint your model with an enamel. That's about all I use and I have had no problems with adhesion. When I mask and remove the tape once the second color paint has dried the acrylic paint comes off along with the ...

Using acrylic paints I discovered they will not stick to bare styrene so you'll need to paint your model with an enamel.

I have a TESTORS aztek single action airbrush which I bought 7 years ago and it came with siphon and gravity paint cups. This particular airbrush also comes with dual action.

You could always apply the decals for the saucer rim and use them as a guide/template to drill the windows.

It is 926 AM here on the west coast and he's back yet again under the user name of Eddie Weern and he's posting using Russian lettering. He's been busy, 47 posts already.

And he's back yet again. He started a thread under general Sci-Fi Modleing and is going by the user name of Jimmy Actisa.

Prostitution and sex trafficking??? Shouldn't some one contact the FBI or their local police???

Is this stuff sold at hobbytown??

Actually it's there on the index page as well as each sub forum page, the difference is when you click on MFR located on the index page it marks each sub forum read but when you do it on each sub forum page it just marks topics read for that section only.

Ah yes, much better!!

onezero wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 10:04 am I just tested it on my daughter's chromebook. Hold down the control key, then use the scroll wheel on the mouse to make the stuff on the screen bigger/smaller.

control key??

Since you used acrylics then I suggest using future floor polish other wise your finish is going to turn yellow with time.

As I mentioned above ;) , a model car I built several years ago, painted with Tamiya clear, shows no signs of yellowing. I have to ask is the model car White or a different color? it seems to me that the yellowing will be more noticeable on a White model. It's red, white, and blue. That is, white m...

So, will the Tamyia gloss turn yellow over time??

Got me bottle right next to me and the label says
'pledge floor care tile & vinyl floor finish with future shine'.
I have run it through my airbrush with no problems.

From what I've read Testors clear gloss will yellow but their clear flat does not yellow. since you're building the Excelsior do you want a gloss or a flat finish?? If it's gloss the go with future floor polish, if it's a flat finish it's my understanding the Testors clear flat does not yellow. Don'...

Is this Tamyia clear a gloss or flat??

Using sand paper will most likely ruin the pain finish. My suggestion would be to use pieces of tape, masking or scotch tape.

Any brand in particular?? Because I've been using different brand craft store paint for the past 20 years, all of them are acrylic based, from local craft stores such as Craft Wearhouse and Michaels but non from a squeeze tube. Any way I've even mixed them with Model master acrylics with no problems...

But, will it yellow over time like other gloss products used for model finishes??

Better yet go for a snap together kit such as the R2/Polar Lights original series Enterprise or a different snap together kit.

Hey, welcome to the SSM crazy place.LOL
So what do you want to build first???

It applies great but shrinks a lot and sanding it sucks. I've gone back to Mister Dissolved Putty for the applications I was trying to use it for - yes that shrinks too but at least I can sand it decently with just a little care afterwards. It also tends to to dry up at the tip badly for me, so you...

The only resin Pieces I've had are from the PL Batmobile which came with resin figures, the pilot from the Moebius Viper MkII and the booster pack for the deluxe edition 1999 Eagle and the booster pack almost looks like styrene, very high quality, at least to me anyway.

Kylwell wrote:Resin requires pinning and different glues. Cleanup is usually different as resin can have huge pour stubs, horrible seams, misaligned sides, etc.

When it comes to paint the biggest difference is resin pretty much mandates a primer.

I thought we had something on resin here...

Pinning??

NCC1966 wrote:If it helps, I bought mine at eBay fro $8 and plus $5 shipping for my country (Brasil).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/191890204875?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

From what I saw it's sold on amazon for 9.00 and free shipping, and free is a very good price.