sandokan Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Fantastic !!! What hard making! Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Lovely work, Gaz! WD40 is also excellent for removing foil adhesive. Kev sandokan, Uncarina and Gazzas 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Awesome (and delicate) work on the foiled canopy frames! Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 Guys, Thank you very much! Lovely work, Gaz! WD40 is also excellent for removing foil adhesive. Kev Kev, What do you use to remove the WD40? It doesn't harm plastic or paint? Gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Guys, Thank you very much! Kev, What do you use to remove the WD40? It doesn't harm plastic or paint? Gaz I just spray a little on a cotton bud, and gently rub the affected area on the canopy in a circular motion. No need to remove it, as it imparts a lovely shine to the clear plastic, which it definitely does not harm. It also won't damage acrylic paints but I have had issues with enamels. Kev Gazzas, Uncarina, monthebiff and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 Thanks, Kev. Gonna have to get me a can. Gaz LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Gaz, Not sure how I have missed this one but just brilliant work indeed, how cool would it be if someone gave us a 32nd scale B-58 to foil!! Regards. Andy Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 Gaz, Not sure how I have missed this one but just brilliant work indeed, how cool would it be if someone gave us a 32nd scale B-58 to foil!! Regards. Andy Andy, Thanks! I'm holding out for this to foil: Gaz Uncarina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussiereg Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Damn Gazza, you blew me away with the foiled B-29 while I was following along, and now I find out about THIS!!! Awesome work mate, inspirational stuff. Cheers, D Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Thanks Damian! Glad to see you out and about! Gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 Hi Everyone, For the past eternity I've been applying the common stencils to the fuselage. Along with work, it feels like no progress at all. But anyway, I keep going on. I tried something different this build. Instead of covering the entire plane with Future before applying the decals, I only spot-painted thinned Future in areas where the decal diagram showed the decals to be. In some places I'm sure I was off because the decals were slipping around pretty wildly as I tried to squeeze out liquid and air with a damp cloth. To my consternation, the large black triangular decal over the nose didn't fit around the canopy framing. It was too big. So, I had to hazard masking over the foil and over the canopy framing. I used Panzer Putty over the canopy framing. After all was said and done, I managed to paint the black triangle and remove the masking without lifting any foil. Peeling the tape away parallel to the foil instead of lifting it perpendicularly. The decals are quite thin. Though sometimes it is easy to make out a bit of clear film. The width of the panel lines and other details becomes painfully apparent in these macro-vision photos. If my scribing skills weren't so poor, I might have been tempted to fill in the original details. But I'm only so much into torture...lol Thanks for looking! Gaz Jim Barry, johncrow, Trak-Tor and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClumsyDude Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Gaz, that looks superb. Must've been a huge relief when you got the masking off the nose. Well done. Jim Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Boillot Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I just spray a little on a cotton bud, and gently rub the affected area on the canopy in a circular motion. No need to remove it, as it imparts a lovely shine to the clear plastic, which it definitely does not harm. It also won't damage acrylic paints but I have had issues with enamels. Kev Another one to add to the 2 000 uses of WD40 ... This product is so ubiquitous that I suspect it is one of the major technological breakthroughs resulting from that UFO landing in New Mexico in 1947 . They could not make any sense of all that anti-gravity technology, but THIS product, now there were practical applications ! Otherwise why did its inventors never get a Nobel prize ? Hubert TorbenD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 Finally finished. Thanks for lookin! Gaz TaffyMan, johncrow, Bil and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Wow, that is amazing, Gaz! Kev Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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