Pastor John 3,068 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 (edited) Hi everyone, hope you are all well. I started a model for myself half a year back - not getting off to a good start with four of the six Aires/Quickboost sets I bought not fitting, all having 1.6mm shrinkage and as to date they have still not replied to either my emails or Hannants emails politely warning of the problem so I do not feel too bad about sharing now to be honest! Anyway I enjoyed painting their cockpit set - rear shelf having been lengthened by 1.6mm to fit! and their perfectly fitting gear bay product. I do not really have too much time to do builds with lots of photos but enjoyed fitting me new AIMS PE details. So everything coming along and soon able to close it up and I ended up changing the kits upper gun cowl myself and am very happy with it so will go with that like I should have done from the beginning! Edited June 29 by Pastor John blackbetty, Stefano, MikeC and 12 others 15 Link to post Share on other sites
Shawn M 9,386 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 lovely work as always John Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
AceofClubs 255 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Interesting project, John! Ciao Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jumpjack 39 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 I sometimes wish the AM resin suppliers would offer some sort of premium service optimized for minimum shrinkage. I do a fair bit of home casting and generally use clear acrylic resin for just this purpose. Some of the resin aircraft I have bought have demonstrated up to 10% shrinkage- always assuming the masters had been worked to some closer approximation of actual scaled dimensions! les Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Pastor John 3,068 Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 They should not have to! If I can use more expensive platinum cured resin and silicone with its minimal to zero shrinkage due to less exothermic reaction and as a result have a smaller profit margin then so can other people! Stefano 1 Link to post Share on other sites
dodgem37 8,046 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Love that. Sincerely, Mark Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Thunnus 8,869 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 I love all things Dora so I'll be watching this with interest! Sort of jealous that your resin wheel wells fit so well. On my D-13 build, I had to cut mine in half to account for the shrinkage and position them so the holes for the cannon barrels lined up. Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Pastor John 3,068 Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 I must of got lucky on that one! Link to post Share on other sites
monthebiff 6,215 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 7 hours ago, Pastor John said: They should not have to! If I can use more expensive platinum cured resin and silicone with its minimal to zero shrinkage due to less exothermic reaction and as a result have a smaller profit margin then so can other people! Couldn't agree more John, the fit of your resin is excellent and really nice to work with. Some others should take note as nothing worse than poor fit, brittle parts etc etc. Regards. Andy Pastor John and MikeC 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Pastor John 3,068 Posted Wednesday at 07:20 AM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 07:20 AM Hi everyone, nice to be able to sit a little after three weeks in bed. Knee doing well after the surgery but not rushing back to AIMS with all its standing and bending to cast so just enjoying trying to finish a model at the moment and in the last few days was able to get some painting done or should a say a lot of masking and a little painting? So Red 1 of JV 44 coming along. I have used Mr Paint colours without exception. The paint is semi gloss already - more so if you put it directly onto plastic but the red was put on top of the Mr Paint white primer and so it is more matt than the upper colours, anyway a little more gloss then on with the decals. Thanks, John nmayhew, Lothar, MikeC and 14 others 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Lothar 2,276 Posted Wednesday at 07:27 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:27 AM Just wow - most impressive paintjob and weathering Lothar Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LSP_Kevin 29,698 Posted Wednesday at 07:41 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:41 AM Superb, John! Kev Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kagemusha 8,306 Posted Wednesday at 08:00 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:00 AM 18 minutes ago, LSP_Kevin said: Superb, John! Kev It really is, hope your recuperation goes well. Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MikeMaben 6,841 Posted Thursday at 06:28 AM Share Posted Thursday at 06:28 AM 23 hours ago, Pastor John said: ... just enjoying trying to finish a model at the moment ... You're what ??? Nice work so far John Pastor John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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