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"At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."

Both use Lye as the active ingredient. The biggest differences is that oven cleaner's cheaper, but CSC is a lot stronger. There are hobby oriented paint strippers like Strip-A-Kit and Poly Scale's Easy Lift Off- but I think they're long out of production. But CSC has saved many canopies after I've h...

so why are people going nuclear on him? - Spamming inboxes with unwanted invites to his forum. - Attacking admins and the site owner. - Posts about AST forum states I was fine with him pimping for his site until that started. It is all unwanted content and not relevant discussion. And that's all he...

Depends on how long you immerse it and getting a tight seal on the container. I tried stripping my first build of the DS9 Defiant a few years back, and results were mixed. It won't damage/melt soften the styrene, that's for certain.

Back a couple of weeks ago you sent me a PM informing me you had registered me on AST WITHOUT ASKING FOR MY PERMISSION, so kindly delete my account from AST. I am perfectly capable of registering myself which I choose not to do at this time. Can't help but wonder how many other SSM members you've r...

No, I'm saying you should stick to the videos instead of sh!t-talking the owners and the admins in crass attempt to siphon members to your web board and appearing like you're doing us all a solid.

Because I like the weedios.

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

I like your weedios.

And I like your weedios.

That's a hooooggggge wall of text from a 100-post newb.

I like your weedios. and forgive me for being blunt here but john doesn't give a damn about this forum and he is the only one with access to fix it. John Lester has provided this space for us for over TWENTY-FIVE years ad-free. I am cutting him some slack in maybe starshipmodeler.com may not be the ...

I'm a Dutch Crunch guy myself. aka Tiger Bread.

1 of 2 shipments arrived. Still waiting on 2nd

etssp wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:29 am Has anybody tried phoning John? His number should be +1 224 372 7428 according the web store.

John's not dead/missing. Just ordered from the SM store last week.

At this point, it's not broken. It's just the new normal.

20 years ago Tamiya kitted a 1/48 MiG-15 bis that was electroplated ("Silver Color Plated") CSC made short work of it, first stripping the plating, and after a few more hours, the creme yellow undercoating. Bare white plastic underneath all that. Turns out Tamiya uses the same process with...

Sodium Hydroxide and Sodium Hyrdasilicate are the key ingredients, That trial size doesn't specify those. So maybe the marine supply one?1

I like your YT wideos.

Feels like it was enabling Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/https) that solved it. SSL was probably in there all along, just not enabled at the boards gateway, and more importantly, our browser bookmarks.

Chas wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:22 pm ( what are we all doing here though )

Trying to determine who's left of our once mighty bulk.

heh, bulk.

Dave's still not here man.

Dave's not here man.

I saw the Spy Hunter restoration.

Check out this TRON upright cabinet restore too! (More detailed on rehabbing the electronics than Spy Hunter)
https://youtu.be/KhHNqwRHC9Q?si=MXOB8KJYM9UuP35B

thanks for the pics!

The Foundation ship really stood out for me. As did the larger scale Yamato.

Castrol Super Clean automotive degreaser is what I used. But Castrol divested and I think it's just called SuperClean now. Reportedly, the formula is not the same. CSC was pretty caustic stuff. (it will eat almuminum, but will not damage styrene) CSC was the only thing that could take chrome *and* t...

I thought that Testors paint set was flourescent, (UV/blacklight) not luminous (charged by natural/artificial light).

I don't like Bare Metal Foil for large applications. It's fine if you're doing say, a N1 starfighter, or chrome trim on a car model. But once you wrap an entire model with foil- it looks like a model wrapped in foil. I wish Alclad II wasn't so damn noxious. (Lacquer) but that's what I'm planning wit...

Many thanks!

Linda (still my wife 25 years on) :thumbsup: CultTVMan started on AOL. That's where I found him - and Scott VanAken at Modeling Madness as well. Don Matthys (of blessed memory) was on one of the "free" platforms then - I bought my first resin piece from him in 1997, a tinted resin deflect...

Still have the old Pactra International colors in my stash. (1980s) Haven't cracked them open, but the carriers are still liquid, so some of the pigments may have settled. If I ever get back on a Japanese WW2 A/C kick, I'll find out. Even if the pigment has settled to the bottom of the jar and its a...