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Yeah if its older kits super clean will not take it off no matter how long. Even 100% lye doesn't fully take it off lol. Be careful though cause superclean can stain the varnish, and than you wont have a choice but to scrap it off. Reason i switched too 100% lye.

I'm not a avid collector like i don't seek out stuff too just buy and collect, but THIS caught my eye. I was wanting too know if it was truly worth the money or less? A guy is wanting $50 for it with like 12$ shipping.

Yeah when i get my tax money I'm going to get a few myself

Probably was just some small excess plastic you didn't notice on the part cause the chrome. I dechrome and rechrome all the time, and never noticed any plastic coming off or etc unless it's a loose peace of flash. I don't use super clean really anymore cause it can stain the undercoat once the chrome is gone and it's a pain trying to get off. I just use 100% lye, and than let parts sit in dawn dish soap for like 5-10 mins and than scrub clean. You should be fine since you said the part looks good, but you be surprised what the chrome and especially the thick chrome trees can hide.

Yeah the carney cases are very nice. Pricey but worth it.

My current fav tool is this

5 min clear epoxy

Hey another NC peep what up haha? Yeah you prob could I'm just not too familiar with spray cans.

Well from googling it said viper red is a shade of pink-red. 79.22% Red, 12.55% green, 16.08% blue. I'm sure those 3 colors are straight basic colors so shouldn't be too difficult to mix. The legit gravity colors has dodge viper red too but for airbrush https://gravity-colors.com/model-car-paints/131-01-gc-1240-dodge-viper-red/ a guards red over pink primer or tamiya mica red would be close too i think. Sorry can't help much with spray cans.

Molotow is nice but the problem i have with it is it just flows every where. Maybe I just used them wrong lol.

Must be luck of the draw. I know the sheet i was working off of wouldn't work good for emblems or window trim. Like it would go on great, but soon as you're done cutting if you even touch it it'll pull back up from the edges. You basically couldn't have a flawless trim cause it would be too thin and just come back up especially when putting in glass. Maybe i just had bad sheets or just order directly from BMF themselves. Cause who knows how long they where sitting at modelroundup

Looking good so far man awesome job. I use superclean sometimes and 100% lye to dechrome and i use alclad and spaz stix to rechrome using alclads gloss black base. Far as mr hobby leveling thinner causing issues with the paint that's the first time I've heard anything like that. But I'm sure it's cause it didn't dry fast enough which is what probably caused your issue. The flakes settle faster than it dried. There rapid thinner they designed to use for flats and metallics allows the paint to dry before the flakes can settle. Also for the dash gauges did you apply them right over the raised detail? You're suppose to remove those details before applying them it's in step 3 in the instructions ? I'm also going to use the custom rims instead of the stock rims and lower the ride height front and back since the kit includes all the parts to do so. I'm probably going to remove the side trim from the body as well, because i think it looks cleaner without that.

This is really why i don't deal with aircraft kits also boat kits too. Other than putty's or milliput or some other forms of it most people will take tamiya cement and than squeeze the two halves together and that will ooze out some plastic that helps fill in the gap. You can than scrap off the excess , BUT there is another good alternative too that method even though it's almost the same. You could take and make some sprue goo using the sprue parts from the kit to make the sprue goo the same color. Make it like a medium thickness and use that and once it's dry it'll be easy to sand cause you're left with the plastic itself. P.S those zip ties aren't holding tight enough either. You need clamps like your blue ones or adjustable claps to hold those halves together tight.

Well so far with my kit the side skirts only one fits properly, and the other fits but has a gap. So i'm not going to use them at all. I test fitted the front and rear bumper too, but there kinda iffy. Probably will fit better once i dechrome them and clean them up - than do another test fit. When i first opened the box i knew this was gonna be a iffy kit to begin with lol. I mean there is like 5 ejector pin makes under the hood lol, and the chrome is so thick it took me a few mins to find the windshield wipers lol. There so issues here and there on the chrome too along with flash - so I'm glad i know how and love dechroming and rechroming parts. Yes except i wouldn't use it for Mr.color acrylic line up.

Yeah you should see my stash lol i have a stash that would take some folks years to get. Also yeah the flash is pretty bad on the kit even though i've seen worse. I don't use a x acto blade though for most flash or mold lines. Have you seen SMS ceramic scrapper? https://www.scalemodeller.com.au/products/ceramic-scraper its pricey, but it's amazing. Impossible to gauge the plastic when cleaning or any mistake you can make with a X-acto blade. Best part is you can't cut yourself even though it's super sharp. Was you able to fix the roll bar?

Micro mark sells some and AK has some. You could get some TCP global paper paint strainers and just take out the filter part and put on the bottle of paint under the cap.

Oh I'm still learning too man. I haven't been in the hobby that long like less than a year, and i watch, read, and learn as much as i can. I turned my old bedroom at my parents house into a hobby room - like literally remodeled the whole room new flooring etc lol. Dang room looks like a store with kits and paint and legos lol. Anyways this is my next project I'll be doing sometime soon - the 62 ford thunderbird "flash" galore haha. I have the photo etch set for the kit too as i do with every kit i own just about lol.

Yeah there pretty fragile, and with thin coats yeah you'll burn through pretty fast especially if your clear coats are thin too. But if you burnt through the clear too the color coat than that tells you your clear coats where too thin. You can burn through clear coat fast too, but not that fast unless you're really giving it the grit lol.

No they haven't.

Yeah those checkerboard seats would of been done with this top part

That's beautiful. I just wanna jump in the picture and go for a ride bro.

Yeah that looks great man. I can tell a big difference from your last picture.

Yeah stuff is amazing. It's almost exclusively the only thinner i use lol. I do also have mr hobbys rapid thinner which is great for metallic paints and flat paints.

You should ditch the rubbing alcohol and get some mr hobby leveling thinner. https://spraygunner.com/gsi-creos-mr-color-leveling-thinner/?sku=T108&gclid=Cj0KCQiAuP-OBhDqARIsAD4XHpf9mUZVLEco-G7H5ziXyf6gBHGJodkjyuQHTojDbsQ5mWD-jBPT0Y4aApQdEALw_wcB

Yeah Mr hobby leveling thinner is amazing. I got 2 big bottles of it lol last a long time. There rapid thinner is good too its for flats, and metallic paints.