Skyline BMF question

[lordairgtar]

I am building a 2000GT-B (S54B) Skyline from Fujimi. The car body is molded in white and is quite shiny because Fujimi polished their molds very nicely. I am thinking of leaving it as is. It has all separate chrome trim on doors, handles, mirrors et cetera. The trim around the windows needs to be bare metaled. Will it stick to the unpainted plastic? This car is being used to populate a Japanese style auto transport trailer for a NNL coming up in April. It doesn't need to be super detailed with paint on the body as it will be on trailer at the NNL, although it might be displayed in my cabinet along side it. The premise is a truck owned by a seller of vintage cars in Japan, and this is a way of collecting and delivering cars to customers.

Edited December 29, 2013 by lordairgtar

[Art Anderson]

If the plastic surface is "squeaky clean", I see no reason why BMF shouldn't stick to it as well as it does on a painted surface.

Art

Edited December 29, 2013 by Art Anderson

[Chuck Most]

If the plastic surface is "squeaky clean", I see no reason why BMF shouldn't stick to it as well as it does on a painted surface.

Art

What Art said. I've had good luck sticking it to raw plastic with a decent gloss molded into it.

[lordairgtar]

I have been BMFing the Skyline and it seems to work well. It just needed some for the window trim as the rest of the trim is seperate chrome bits in the kit. Very ficky to handle the small side trim which reminded me of the chrome trim on an old tool Revell 56 Chevrolet. At least Fujimi saw fit to tool indentations into the body where the trim goes.