David's 'Spiteful' contribution *** Finished ***

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Thanks, Kit.

Winkle is now in his 'office'. I wouldn't normally post a pic of the cockpit but this may be the last time we ever see it given the thickness of the canopy !!!

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Its all coming on nicely
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Thanks, Fred.

Looks rather nice in pale grey primer.

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I did get one paint run on it that will have to be cleaned up before the colour coats go on.

The instructions say paint it Ocean Grey/Dark Green over Sky Grey undersides. I assume it should have Medium Sea Grey undersides - anyway, that's what I think I'll use.

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LOL - just realised I forgot to attach the air intake too!!!!

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You're doing a great job on this David. It doesn't look like a nice kit but you've brought out the best in it 8-)
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It's looking good.

Looking at the shape has given me ideas for a What If build, how about adding a Gas Turbine engine, a modern set of colours and weapons and you have a counter insurgency a/c

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Not happy tonight.


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This is despite washing the model before priming. Thankfully the undersides (less seen) are worst. The Tamiya paper tape pulled off the Gunze MSG and the primer below it. I think I may go back to spray can enamel primer.

I walked away from it and will look again at remedial action tomorrow.

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splash wrote:It's looking good.

Looking at the shape has given me ideas for a What If build, how about adding a Gas Turbine engine, a modern set of colours and weapons and you have a counter insurgency a/c

Regards Splash
Interesting thought. The shape always looks a bit odd to me. Maybe if they'd used square tipped tailplanes and fins it would look better integrated.........but then it would have looked just like a Mustang minus the under-fuselage radiator scoop.

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Spiteful is right. That's how this build is beginning to get.

First the stripped off paint yesterday and now it seems that my brilliant undercarriage door plugs made from resin were not so brilliant. The paint will just not dry on those parts. Must be something wrong with mix I did of the resin. It feels fine to the touch and takes paint fine but the paint just never dries. It's not that the paint is sticky - it's positively wet as if it was freshly applied. Weird.

I can't face breaking those plugs out - they were a very tight fit and are superglued in - and recasting them or using plastic card for the u/c doors. So I've tried a light coat of the resin hardener in the hope that will help.

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Nothing is sealing this resin. I tried brushing on some more hardener. I tried a coating of Future.

Here's the mess today. I have scraped off the slimy paint and skimmed down the resin as much as I can (and of course messed up other areas in the process :evil: ). Not sure what to do now. My friend suggested enamel paint may work as a sealant but if it didn't, I'd have to go through all this again. So I may try gluing on thin plasticard doors over the resin instead.

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This one is certainly putting up a fight. :???:

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Thanks, OT. I really needed the sympathy. I have been very tempted to mark it DNF.

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Would a thin coat of super glue seal it?
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splash wrote:Would a thin coat of super glue seal it?
Good idea. I tried it and tomorrow will try paint on it. It was 'thin' superglue but it does seem to have dried a bit lumpy looking.

If that fails, I'll sand it off and try covering with glued on doors of plastic card or maybe even paper.

I'm getting pretty desperate to be done with this one!!!

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No joy this morning either. The enamel paint over dried superglue still has wet spots. I assume that means the superglue coating had some imperfections letting resin goo seep through. It may well be worth redoing the superglue but it ended up a bit lumpy anyway and time and temper are running out. So I think I will move on to Plan E. See descriptions of all Plans so far below:

A - acrylic primer and acrylic topcoat
B - strip and reapply A above
C - strip and apply coat of Future
D - strip and apply superglue then enamel primer
E - strip and glue on undercarriage doors of plasticard to cover resin areas

I must admit the fun is long gone gone out of this one but since this is all in honour of such a great test pilot......................

David

PS - does anybody know a way to apply the superglue to get a perfectly flat skin? I used a very thin superglue and applied with a brush (whose bristles rapidly set to a stick) and areas dried up forming small ridges and bumps as I went.
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