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Builder Last Online: Oct 2012
Model Scale: 1/8
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Started: 05-08-11
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Hi to everybody,
I'm looking for some help from Italy. I abandoned the hobby about thirty years ago after having assembled many many 1/43 metal kits, mainly AMR, both for me and modelshops. Work, family, children, I suppose many are in my condition. I was - and hope I still am - only able to assemble, no scratchbuilding though I always greatly admired those of you able to start from nothing. I finally decided to restart because I have an unbuilt 1/12 Protar Fiat 806 in my garage since 1978: was getting tired of 1/43 and always liked larger scale, but I had to leave it where it is. It had been partially initiated by a fellow who soon got tired without even damaging it too much, that's why I could afford to purchase it at half its price. A couple of months ago I said now or never, looked for info about the car here and there, bought some of the watchman tools I no longer had and then happened to find a built 1/12 Protar Mefistofele that I immensely liked then as well as now. Decided to start with this one - more info and photos available, car still exists: I partially dismantled it and will redo it because it was assembled without heart: sufficient paint work on metal, no paint on most of plastic (radiator grille is so ugly) and no deburring at all, etc. I only detailed three tires to see if my hands are still a bit good, seems so but oh my eyes...It was surely assembled with the Loctite tube supplied with kit: luck for me, some styrene
pieces I could separate with tons of attention and some cold sweat/weight loss. But I stopped in front of the engine: too many small pieces, too much risk.
Any tricks for removing Loctite from styrene
?
No problem with paints, Ialways used nitrocellulose and can still find it, no problem also with putty
, always used bicomponent bodyfiller sparingly.
No problem removing paint, brake oil or Chanteclair (a household degreaser) will do, but also read of "Polyscale Easy Lift Off Remover". Is it so good, where can I find it?
Also, would like to try different metallic
paints to find the tones I prefer, only have some Modelmaster and Humbrol enamels. I use a Badger 200
airbrush
, know of
Alclad
but also knew of Testors and Floquil and cannot find them here. Does Pactra still exist? Some very nice colors they had.
I read of photoetched
chains for motorbikes but do not remember who and where.
I have both ebay and Paypal accts, buying here and there wouldn't be a problem.
So many questions! Attached: some pics of dismantling, hope to start rebuild in decent times...
I'm looking for some help from Italy. I abandoned the hobby about thirty years ago after having assembled many many 1/43 metal kits, mainly AMR, both for me and modelshops. Work, family, children, I suppose many are in my condition. I was - and hope I still am - only able to assemble, no scratchbuilding though I always greatly admired those of you able to start from nothing. I finally decided to restart because I have an unbuilt 1/12 Protar Fiat 806 in my garage since 1978: was getting tired of 1/43 and always liked larger scale, but I had to leave it where it is. It had been partially initiated by a fellow who soon got tired without even damaging it too much, that's why I could afford to purchase it at half its price. A couple of months ago I said now or never, looked for info about the car here and there, bought some of the watchman tools I no longer had and then happened to find a built 1/12 Protar Mefistofele that I immensely liked then as well as now. Decided to start with this one - more info and photos available, car still exists: I partially dismantled it and will redo it because it was assembled without heart: sufficient paint work on metal, no paint on most of plastic (radiator grille is so ugly) and no deburring at all, etc. I only detailed three tires to see if my hands are still a bit good, seems so but oh my eyes...It was surely assembled with the Loctite tube supplied with kit: luck for me, some styrene
pieces I could separate with tons of attention and some cold sweat/weight loss. But I stopped in front of the engine: too many small pieces, too much risk. Any tricks for removing Loctite from styrene
? No problem with paints, Ialways used nitrocellulose and can still find it, no problem also with putty
, always used bicomponent bodyfiller sparingly.No problem removing paint, brake oil or Chanteclair (a household degreaser) will do, but also read of "Polyscale Easy Lift Off Remover". Is it so good, where can I find it?
Also, would like to try different metallic
paints to find the tones I prefer, only have some Modelmaster and Humbrol enamels. I use a Badger 200
airbrush
, know of
Alclad
but also knew of Testors and Floquil and cannot find them here. Does Pactra still exist? Some very nice colors they had. I read of photoetched
chains for motorbikes but do not remember who and where.I have both ebay and Paypal accts, buying here and there wouldn't be a problem.
So many questions! Attached: some pics of dismantling, hope to start rebuild in decent times...
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