Resin questions

[JerseeJerry55]

Hello all, hope everyone is well. I have some questions in regard to resin parts. I never have used them at all. Have a front visor I am going to use on the Revell USA KW W900 Aerodyne. So questions are:

How do I prep the piece?

How much surface sanding do I have to do?

Are there any primers/paints that don't play nice with the resin?

What glue works best? Epoxy, CA (super glue), standard model glue?

As always any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[Mark]

Prepping resin always includes cleaning it.  This you do BEFORE anything else.  If you sand not yet cleaned resin, you are likely grinding mold release into the part.

Sanding will vary depending of course on the quality of the part.  The best items will only need as much cleanup as regular kit parts.

Resin will take any paint that the plastic can, often the plastic parts will need more treatment to take some lacquers than the resin will.  I would prep/prime everything in the same way, to lessen the likelihood of a color mismatch.

Regular plastic cement won't work on resin.  You're left with CA and epoxy.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Depending on the resin. I have found that soaking in bleach white (usually overnight), then scrubbing with a cleaning powder like Comet and a toothbrush is the only way to get paint to stick on some resin, especially what I call “milk jug” resin (white almost clear).