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I use an automotive primer. It's a scratch filling, sandable primer. It's a little hot, but not too bad. It will melt 0.005" plastic I use from Evergreen, but has been safe on all other plastics. It's only $5.99 for a 284g can. MUCH cheaper than hobby primers. Iy dries fast, goes on smoothly, ...

start with a white primer and it can be your white base allso.

It may take the putty off depending on what kind it is.

I recently purchased a Paasche external mix syphon feed AB (don't remember the exact model #). I have had a few problems and have several questions. 1 . What tip size works best for MM acrylics, particularly for large area coverage? It came w/ a 1, 3, and 5. 2 . Is there a difference between the ai...

look in a pet shop for a bottle to feed baby animales . your bottle top may fit them.

yes it will

kahless78 wrote:Do you have a resistor on each led or just one? I was going to hook them up in a series with one resistor.

Yes one resister on each led.

I have 2 3mm white leds with 1k ohm resistors runing on a 6v power supply thats deen on from December and are as brite as when first pluged in.

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Put a air tank inline before the moisture trap and it may help, and drain the trap before you start painting allso the moisture trap needs to mounted in the right way or it will not work.
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Thats very nice

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I fixed a front blinker that was broke into pices . I glued the parts togather with acraglase ,then used some modling clay to take a print of the inside of the unbroken one put it inside the one that I glued up and mixed more acraglase with som wellow dye and pored it into the holes where parts were...

If it is just the clear part you can cut it out and make a new part from plaxeglase .

800 should be fine

A new pice of masking tape will pull the resadue off most of the time.

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This may be worth trying just to see how it works

I haven't used Duplicolor paints on bare plastic, I have used their primers on resin kits and they're my favorite for this application, a couple of coats with some light sanding in between and you'll have a good hard base for further paint coats. Ken I Have used Duplicolor on bare plastic and was o...

Kylwell wrote:Tamiya is also a lacquer.

My suggestion is to test it on something unimportant.

In that case it may work

I have never used tamiya primer so I dont know. The duplicolor is laquer so I think it would eat the tamiya primer.

the Alclad chrome works very good I used it on some of my tow trucks , look at my pics ,link below. On this Peterbilt http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r87/ ... bilt2B.jpg the head lights , battrey box ,and fuel tank are Alclad.

I use duplicolor primers and sand them with fine sand paper 320 and 400 when needed . spray the primer on very lighty in 4 or 5 coats, if you put it on thick in one coat it will melt the plastic. You should be abile to spray krylon over the duplicolor primer, try it on scrap first.

I tried using a soldering iron without much success. (I think I have a 30-35W soldering iron.) Do you guys think that this would do the trick?: http://kipkay.com/videos/laser-flashlight-hack It's powerful enough to light a match, which to the best I can figure out is around 325 degrees. I don't kno...

Well I can't speak from experience, but one CCFL tube would light the entire saucer section, all you would need to do is fill the windows with a clear resin. They make great windows. Just seems like less of a headache to use one source of light. I would ask around here, because a lot of people have...

The blue tube glue will work just fit the parts together very good

You could sand it to get the rusty spots. You can also get real metal and use etching soulution to rust it....but this is BAD stuff if handled wrong so read up on it first. http://www.appliedimaginationinc.com/precision_products/index.html couldn't you just ruff it up and dip in salt water??? seems...

K&S makes a corrugated sheets also

My 1/350 enterprise will be painted before it go togather , most other kits will be painted when there all or mostly glued togather.

azdave wrote:So can I just cut three pieces of clear plastic from a template that I made from the broken canopy? There is a fram that looks like it is molded to the three panels. How can I paint that area on the canopy?

yes

use some clear plastic to make a new canopy, you can glue the broke one together to use as a pattern.