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Glorfindel wrote:Rubber cement, Microscale makes that blue liquid mask...works good.

Even sweeter, just ordered some liquid mask. Just what I was looking for. That Krystal klear stuff looks perfect for the paragraphix arboretum windows. Nice one Glorfinel

en'til Zog wrote:Liquid maskers seem to be mostly liquid latex.

I've also successfully used plain white glue, painted on and allowed to dry.

I've got a load of white wood glue lying around. I'll give it a whirl later. Thanks for the great suggestion!

florjon wrote:Some sort of clay?

Maybe, thanks for that- I guess that would protect the LEDs from primer.
Cheers!

Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone had any great ideas for the best way to mask the led lights prior to priming. Is there any liquid I can apply to protect them instead of good old tamiya tape?

Mr. Engineer wrote:Have you gotten in touch with Trekmodeler?

Hiya, thanks for the interest. I went to my local hobby shop and bought another led. After some soldering- I'm back on track!

Hi all, Ive been progressing swimmingly with my polar lights 1/350 polar light enterprise and I need some advice!. Basically I was doing a test on the amber/blue fading lights and the blue one has stopped working!! It was fine, I think it was my fault- the board may have touched a pair of tweezers a...