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  1. Dpate
    Yeah Scalehobbyist is awesome. I support them a lot.
  2. Dpate
    Went back out of town, and figured I’d check out HL. They were a disappointment as always. Found these two at hobby town cheap so I snatched them.
  3. Dpate
    What’s your plan with all of these?
  4. Dpate
    Dang the pursuit already out. Hopefully my main shops or hobby lobby gets them.
  5. Dpate
    Sweet! Definitely gonna pick up that 60 F-100. Thank you.
  6. Dpate
    Are these 100% new tooling?
  7. Dpate
    I use a combination of two products when I'm dealing with chrome, and the process works every single time. I use 100% lye that you can buy from Ace hardware, walmart, lowes etc that is what removes the fake chrome that is what is in a lot of these products like "Easy off" 5% lye. The 2nd product i use is something i stubbled on when hunting for a paint remover product, but to my surprise it removes the chrome underlayer varnish with ease. 5-10 mins depending on how thick the varnish is. Sadly it's hard to find, but there is another alternative as well, and a little cheaper as well. It's called Odenkan SC-02 paint remover $10 for 500mL. The picture is of the 2nd product i was talking about.
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    These came in today. Already had got the bat pod, but seen they had a 1:18 scale so opted to buy and build this one.
  9. Dpate
    These came in today. Got 15 bottles of Mr. Hobby 18ml mixing bottles as i didn't wanna use up my tamiya mixing bottles. 3 bottles of different shades of gold, and gaia being the first bottle I've ever owned of there's.
  10. Dpate
    Now that looks like Rallye green. After relooking through the thread I got mixed up somehow with Steve’s post lol. It’s definitely Rallye green though.
  11. Dpate
    Looks like fathom green poly to me. That ditzler is old, and the color looks darker than it is.
  12. Dpate
    New replacement bottle came in today from scalefinishes. Sprays flawlessly, and still can’t figure out what happened to the first bottle. Either way James is the real MVP.
  13. Dpate
    Got these Mr.Colors for custom mixing for other projects.
  14. Dpate
    Sparmax easy choice.
  15. Dpate
    So after explaining everything to James he’s sending out a new bottle of paint. Great guy and service. Not sure how bad bottle of paint happens, but very rare with his paints as this is the first bottle out of the 60 colors I own from him to be bad.
  16. Dpate
    The 2nd image in the pic is basically what’s happening. Airbrush been spraying perfect from day 1 until I started testing this color out. Also I spray his paints at 20PSI never had an issue either until now. Even tested at 30 PSI, and same thing even with all the new parts. So something must’ve not been mixed right in the paint. But I’ll let James know to see what’s up. First time this has happened with his paints so kinda baffled.
  17. Dpate
    Thank you
  18. Dpate
    So I was getting ready to spray color onto bronco tonight, but something told me to test on a mule, and boy I’m I glad I did. So airbrush of choice is iwata eclipse as usual, and airbrush works perfectly fine up until I started testing out this new color. I assumed my airbrush was acting up even though my primer session went perfectly fine. So the issue is the paint sprays fine, but as you spray it tiny droplets of paint spots land on the finish as you paint. So thinking my airbrush is acting up I go to changing out parts, and testing after each part I change out. New needle packing, new needle, new nozzle, new O ring. After all that the paint continues to put tiny droplets onto the surface as I paint. So after hours of testing I tried another color, and paint perfectly fine, and retested primer as well which paint’s perfectly fine. So is it a bad batch of paint? I’m just wanting to know before I let James know my situation to try, and get a replacement bottle if possible.
  19. Dpate
    Those straps in the 2nd pic on the trailer - what aftermarket brand are those or did you make em yourself? I've seen a set like that before, but don't remember where.
  20. Dpate
    Got some primer on the ole 2021 Bronco. More clean up than I'd expected on a newly tooled kit, but i go into a AMT kit with 50/50 standards.
  21. Dpate
    These are all my current kits minus couple near work bench. Only got so much space in this apartment lol so lot of these are front to back. Recent kits I've purchased have been the Moebius batman bat-pod, and tumbler, and a new gundam kit.
  22. Dpate
    Last time i went to Michaels to see kits i chuckled...walked away.
  23. Dpate
    This came in today. Haven’t used it yet, but have held it, and feels pretty good in the hand. $54 after 20% off so to good to pass up. Definitely doesn’t feel as good in my hand as iwata though. Had to see what all the hype is about.
  24. Dpate
    I’ve showed this off before, but this is what I use to hold engines etc.
  25. Dpate
    That may be true, but people still purchase these kits off eBay Ollie’s tag or not. Lot of sellers will use a marker to mark out the price on the Ollie’s tag as if people are idiots! But there’s probably people out there that’s never seen an Ollie’s tag before.
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