Snake45 Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 So yesterday I got in the mood to strip the purple paint off this JoHan Rambler American and maybe slot it into my To-Build rotation for this year. The paint looked thick-ish and solid, so I tried (last year) to see if it would polish out and could just be "rescued." It wasn't having any. Test-polishing on the roof just produced some very shiny orange peel. Oh well that's what Easy-Off is for. But first I had to spend an hour scraping off the wrinkly, crinkly gum-wrapper-like foil from the window trim. I bet the same OB did this who did that Revell '68 Dart I rescued last year. The purple also turned out to be pretty tough. First E-O treatment yesterday only took off very minor patches of the stuff, but I've learned that if the first treatment takes ANY of it off, it will eventually take ALL of it off, so I gave it a second go today. Second treatment took off about 60% of the purple, and underneath was an interesting pearly lavender/lilac purple that was so even and smooth that I thought it was the kit plastic. Third treatment took off most of the rest of the purple, but to my utter amazement, the pearly lavender started coming off in sheets! Underneath that was smooth, solid white, so now I thought THAT was the kit plastic. But wait, there's more! The fourth treatment started taking some of the white off, revealing a medium gray, which I NOW thought was the kit plastic, except some of THAT came off too, revealing a lighter gray color which seems to REALLY be the kit plastic color. But at this point, who knows? Maybe the entire body is a repop made ENTIRELY of paint!
Ich_Will Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 Like an everlasting gobstopper....layer after layer after layer....
Snake45 Posted January 31, 2019 Author Posted January 31, 2019 24 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said: Boy...talk about click-bait. What were you hoping to see?
Dave Van Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 55 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said: Boy...talk about click-bait. I thought it was going to be a story about 'Bambi' at a PTA meeting!!!!
Snake45 Posted January 31, 2019 Author Posted January 31, 2019 7 minutes ago, Dave Van said: I thought it was going to be a story about 'Bambi' at a PTA meeting!!!! I googled that and still have no idea what you might be talking about.
Dave Van Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 A stripper telling a story about a wild job at a PTA meeting.....a fictitious joke about your post title.....looses something when you have to explain....
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