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Put it away for at least a week, perhaps longer. I'm sure you can recover it with judicious sanding and patch-painting. 

 

And it might work out for the better. The Mk.XVII at FAA Museum Yeovilton has a very similar crinkly finish!!

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6 hours ago, Killingholme said:

Put it away for at least a week, perhaps longer. I'm sure you can recover it with judicious sanding and patch-painting. 

 

And it might work out for the better. The Mk.XVII at FAA Museum Yeovilton has a very similar crinkly finish!!

Thank you Sir, My daughter said the same "It's an old Aircraft, so it look realist "

I'll do just that, I have another one almost RFIed.

Wise words indeed !

Sincerely.

CC

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Do what Killingholme said put it away for a while then come back to it.  

 

I have some foam sanding pads I bought from the local car factors.  They are used for polishing paint finishes on cars and can be used wet or dry.  Judicious use might be the way ahead.  Little bit at a time and good luck...  

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13 hours ago, Christer A said:

Ouch!

That must sting!

As all others have said, put it to on the shelf for a while so you don't do something rash, that usually leads to more troubles.

Start a new kit or five instead 🙂

That's done !!

You know me now !! 😂

Sincerely.

CC

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Oh what a right royal pain up the bottom. 😥 I can’t belive that. 

What paint do you use again? I have never had that problem with Tamiya top coat. Maybe thinking about it once. But only when I sprayed too close on a cockpit, I can’t remenber which one now but it made the paint shrink slightly and looked horrid. I use Tamiya paint “acrylic” .

I hope you get her sorted CC. She’s a great lookin’ bird. 😊

mall the best kind sir.

 

Johnny

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hello Dears,

I did some smooth sanding on this pesky varnish...

Not yet glad but things have improved a bit..

See

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Some little thing to do, like the vac formed Hood and so...

And RFI for good this time !

Have a great modelling time !

Sincerely.

CC

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Hello Dears,

I received a Father's day gift from my kids !

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And there's now a lady that stand on her legs, No tail sitting Hoooray !

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See you soon !

Sincerely.

CC

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Hello John,

In fact, they were !! The Seafires were grounded on the spot as soon as they exited the war zone on account of severe wrinckling !

That show the courage and devotion to duty of the British FAA

Not only going to war but on out of tolérances old aircrafts….

These guys show more than courage I think !

Now I will not hide myself behind that fact, the pic at hand show pretty well maintained aircraft

That's why I restraint myself on weathering, before the :poo:at least !!

Sincerely.

CC

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Some news from my Spitery !

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Hum hum, I'll make a resin camera for my Pink Spitfire...

I also worked on my Frightning and my Uhu !

Have a great modelling time.

Sincerely.

CC

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3 hours ago, Christer A said:

Pink spitfire!?

I must resist temptation to start a PR1G....

No no no no no no

Or a recce Mk IX, come on come on come on Christer !!

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Hello Dears,

Yesterday, I worked on my kits but as I was painting the ejection handle….

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:poo::poo::poo:SWMBO and my daughter had a strong argument and came in the kitchen

I looked at what was going on...

Aaaaaand the bang seat fell into, yes into the yellow Tamiya paint jar…..🤬

How could this possibly happen….

So, luckily the seatbelts were'nt glued yet !

Gents ! try to drop a 1/48 ejection seat over an open paint jar !

there is a chance over 200 that it get in !

Useless to say that it did'nt calm the things down…

So, it's cold war at CC castle today….

Sincerely.

CC

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Ouch, that's no good! I hope things calm down so you can repaint the seat!

 

Håkan

 

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Here we go !

Another PE round ! for the opened flaps of this Mk IX

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More to follow soon !

Have a good modelling time !

Sincerely.

CC

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Ouch! 😫 yellow paint nightmare. Sorry to hear about that CC, I’m sure you can save it. That camera looks great. I think I made mine from plasticard and the innards of a biro. Yours will be better for sure. 

 

Johnny.

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Hi CC

Seafire looking rather splendid sorry to hear about the varnish issue.  Lightning looks great too fella.  What are the odds of dropping the seat into the paint.  That is mad.

Keep up the good work. 

All the best 

Chris 

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11 hours ago, Thom216 said:

Used a set of those. Those are real nice!

All right Thom, so it was on your thread that I see these insert !

Well thank you Chap, it's great ! :cheers:

Sincerely

13 hours ago, The Spadgent said:

Ouch! 😫 yellow paint nightmare. Sorry to hear about that CC, I’m sure you can save it. That camera looks great. I think I made mine from plasticard and the innards of a biro. Yours will be better for sure. 

 

Johnny.

I did it too, and the camera are almost ready for my PR XI… But here, I want the thing to speed up a bit and these insert look good ...

In the Seafire FR XVII I made the bracket from plasticard since no camera were carried at the time. So it's not too bad to help yourself sometimes 🤪

7 hours ago, bigbadbadge said:

Hi CC

Seafire looking rather splendid sorry to hear about the varnish issue.  Lightning looks great too fella.  What are the odds of dropping the seat into the paint.  That is mad.

Keep up the good work. 

All the best 

Chris 

Hello Chris...

I Don't know, I was painting the ejection handles, I turned my head to look at the squabbling...

The seat fell from my hand, I looked for the seat and saw it sinking in the paint jar…. 😩😩

It's almost fixed now… But Murphy's law striked again !!

Thanks for the kind words !

Sincerely.

14 hours ago, Azgaron said:

Looks nice! :)

 

Håkan

 

Thanks Häkan, promise to be fun too !!

Sincerely

 

Thanks for popping in and have a good modelling Week end !

CC

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I imagine the seat came out with a perfect smooth even coat of yellow, unlike the usual streaky mess that is achieve by the usual paint- or airbrush methods for that colour!  😁

 

Cheers

Will

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