[Stripping Mr. Super Clear from vinyl]

My wife is building a small ball joint doll and her torso is made of soft vinyl. In order to color her body appropriately you have to seal the vinyl and the best thing going is this stuff from Japan called Mr. Super Clear. It acts like a spray acrylic, the vinyl isn't sticky afterwards like if painting with a laquer or enamel. The stuff is awesome and I use it on armor models for coating rubber tracks before weathering and as a barrier coat for thinner-based washes. Anyway, she needs to strip this stuff off of the vinyl torso but what would break this down without eating or otherwise disfiguring the vinyl?

[The best source for new models]

I hate to say it, but for new releases it's hard to beat Amazon. Some things even qualify for free shipping if they are over $25. I've boungt a lot of stuff from model roundup but if you're really looking for bottom dollar it's worth it to check Amazon too.

[Originality Counts or does it?]

I build more for myself, I don't compete so it doesn't really matter if someone has done something I want to do already, if I want it on my shelf or want the challenge of doing a particular thing I do it. That doesn't mean I won't chop stuff up and make my own thing, I have about twenty kit bashed/scratch built monster truck projects and a few more 4x4s in the basement now. Some are completely original and others are replicas of real trucks. The way I look at it we are all given the same starting points, the kits themselves, so some similarity is unavoidable, you just have to build what suits you. I even build things for pc games when I can't get a styrene fix, here is the last thing I did. Its over 30,000 vertices and about 50,000 faces, most enter by hand in an old 3d editor.

[Slump buster Revell W900]

I agree, I want one of those Transtars bad.

[Got a question for the forum- getting rid of sealed kits]

I would like a list also, I'm local so we might not have to involve the postal service in any transaction.

[Slump buster Revell W900]

I've kind of got the semi bug right now so it will most likely be a big truck. I have a few more kits and will be buying a lot more soon. I want to do a Chevy Titan show truck and I'm looking to do a super stock semi pulling truck or two and I want to build some heavy haul trucks using some less often seen makes being reissued. Since alost every kit available is of an old truck you either have to build a retro truck, a junkyard truck, or a restored truck of some kind.

[Revell "Orange Crate" '32 Ford Sedan Hot Rod]

I tried to build the 99 reissue, I got the frame together with all four wheels but it didn't survive a move. Even when built the frame and suspension is incredibly fragile and the excessive flash on the chrome parts prevents a good fit. If I was to try to build this kit again I would strip all the chrome so the pieces could be properly fitted to keep it together.

[Slump buster Revell W900]

I built this straight out of of the box, I just needed to get something finished for a change. I've been building off and on for almost twenty years and I'm hoping to be more on again now. The paint is Testors one coat laquer White Lightening and Maroon Metallic. I'm thinking about building a headache rack to hide the peg holes in the sleeper but if I don't it still looks good on the shelf. Since the truck represented by the kit is about thirty years old I built it as a restored owner/operator truck and a maybe a mild show truck.