Rolls-Royce No Chemicals, No Paint, No Harmful Glues

[Anglia105E]

[MarkJ]

Congrats, David. That last picture you posted is a definite winner. I can read the printing on the box next to the model. When that happens, you have reached your goal in the paint department. Bravo!

[johnyrotten]

You definitely have a great shine going on. That looks fantastic 👍👍

[Anglia105E]

11 hours ago, MarkJ said:

Congrats, David. That last picture you posted is a definite winner. I can read the printing on the box next to the model. When that happens, you have reached your goal in the paint department. Bravo!

Thanks Mark . . . I am trying to upload the text to go with these photos, but MCM website will not allow me to do that ( error message Oops that page can't be found

[Anglia105E]

10 hours ago, johnyrotten said:

You definitely have a great shine going on. That looks fantastic 👍👍

Thanks John . . . I am trying to upload the text that goes with these photos but MCM website will not allow me to do that ( error message is Oops that page can't be found )

[stitchdup]

37 minutes ago, Anglia105E said:

Thanks John . . . I am trying to upload the text that goes with these photos but MCM website will not allow me to do that ( error message is Oops that page can't be found )

some words cause posts to be rejected by the forum software. its usuall co mmand type words  from programming that do it. adding spaces to the word or spelling them wrong lets the post get through

[Anglia105E]

1 hour ago, stitchdup said:

some words cause posts to be rejected by the forum software. its usuall co mmand type words  from programming that do it. adding spaces to the word or spelling them wrong lets the post get through

Yes Les, I had a feeling that it must be something contained within my text that was triggering off some sort of rejection. The trouble is, my text is quite lengthy in this case . . . Tried everything, but not only does the text not get uploaded but I get locked out, and cannot even access the MCM website . . .

Used three different browsers, Opera, Edge and Chrome, but the problem continues ?

David

[stitchdup]

1 minute ago, Anglia105E said:

Yes Les, I had a feeling that it must be something contained within my text that was triggering off some sort of rejection. The trouble is, my text is quite lengthy in this case . . . Tried everything, but not only does the text not get uploaded but I get locked out, and cannot even access the MCM website . . .

Used three different browsers, Opera, Edge and Chrome, but the problem continues ?

David

do you want to email it me and i'll see if i can find the word?

[Anglia105E]

3 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

do you want to email it me and i'll see if i can find the word?

Okay Les, I will do thanks . . . I just removed a slash from between the two words " toothpaste " and " vinegar "

David

[Anglia105E]

Previously I did try to add text to explain what I was doing in the photos, but the text was rejected, for reasons unknown to me. Basically, those photos showed an experiment to remove a scratch from the test body shell . . . Today I made some good progress with this process, this time using the Entex body that will be the actual build. Here is the explanation, along with some further photos. Hopefully my text will not be rejected this time, as it was quite a lengthy post and valuable model building time was wasted.

First of all, a cross was drawn and cut out from a sheet of 2000 grit wet and dry paper. This cross was folded and placed onto the end of a length of square rod balsa, and held in place with double sided tape. Then I used this makeshift tool to sand the area of damage using some water. The scratch was removed and the roughness of the sanding process was polished out with baking soda toothpaste and distilled malt vinegar. I am surprised and very pleased with the result.

This step forward has given me renewed optimism, which I needed greatly at this early stage. I intend to use a new silver Sharpie marker pen, and also some narrow art tape to produce a chrome effect on the rear door window frame. The area of damage that has now been fixed, was immediately behind the door window frame, near to the top rear corner.

David