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Well, bit of late sundays work here from yesterday - but before I start with this, a picture from the much more forgiving lens from my phone:

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Not perfect, but so far it's good enough for me. Works.

But, now for something I found myself shying away from - the fiddling around of alclad'ing the window trims. Part 1 - covering

 

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Part 2: Black base colour:

 

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Part 3 - I won't bore you with that, but finally, I've made it today after a longer day of work to finish with the Alclad. After removing the masking tape no major catastrophes:

 

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It's pretty decent in real life as well, but I've wanted it like that, to be fair.

What came out pretty good as well was the washing of the spoke wheels. I always found them much to shiny, and an attempt of dry painting them with a bit of more dull silver or leven light grey turned out good in large scale, but not on 1:24 like this in the past. So, I just gave them a pretty heavy washing with dark grey - and it looks pretty good: 

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So, enough of tinkering around with this for today - but maybe a kind request of sharing your experiences with these chrome decals, as I don't really trust these. I've tried to replace them with thinnest styrene half round profile frmo Ever Green, but even this is to thick, so I do not see any alternative. So, to those of you who are already trough this: any hints and tricks, any suggestions - or do you have alternatives on these?

Yours, G.

 

 

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On 30.9.2017 at 4:22 PM, Sabrejet said:

To quote an old advert, "No-one does wood more good" (well you get the gist).

A Jag without wood trim is like, let say Twiggy with love handles ( to stay period correct). It just doesn't feel right...

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On 02/10/2017 at 9:30 PM, Chief Cohiba said:

So, enough of tinkering around with this for today - but maybe a kind request of sharing your experiences with these chrome decals, as I don't really trust these. I've tried to replace them with thinnest styrene half round profile frmo Ever Green, but even this is to thick, so I do not see any alternative. So, to those of you who are already trough this: any hints and tricks, any suggestions - or do you have alternatives on these?

Yours, G.

 

 

I've used the Tamiya chrome decals on their Lotus Europa. They look really good and go on easily - too easily, in fact! Once the glue makes contact with the plastic/paint they're stuck forever. Make sure you line them up perfectly!

This is easier said than done.

 

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On 4.10.2017 at 7:50 PM, Chimpion said:

I've used the Tamiya chrome decals on their Lotus Europa. They look really good and go on easily - too easily, in fact! Once the glue makes contact with the plastic/paint they're stuck forever. Make sure you line them up perfectly!

This is easier said than done.

 

Thanks for the hint - this is much appreciated! May I ask one more thing - it says in the instructions to neatly cut around the chrome strip, which I unterstand as cutting away the transparent strip. Is this correct, or am I wrong on this?

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It was a while ago now, but if I remember correctly for the spaced L O T U S letters on the boot I cut around the whole area, and the transparent layer just pulled off once they were attached. I certainly didn't have any issues with this transparent film.

 

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Started with the chrome trim a few days ago, and, I gues due to the age of the kit, these strips don't bond in any way. So, I worked around my way with CA, sigh - after a first bit of helplessly fiddling around, it workes pretty well with starting to glue the trim to the body at one point...

 

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... and then working to the other end, applying the glue very thin, I do it with an old nib, and press it to the other end. Looks good, once applied.

 

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So, I plan to work my way through this the nex days, but this is still fiddly - I am afraid I've already sacrificed one of the smaller trims to the floor monster. Don't know yet if I do without or replace. We'll see...

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3 hours ago, JOCKNEY said:

Hi @Chief Cohiba

Did you ever get thigetne completed  ?

Cheers Pat 

Hi Pat, the answer is, No, but Not yet. It still is here and just requires a severe kick in the lower parts (the builder, not the model).

 

I plan to restart this in the more near future and finish it. I just need - see above... 😉


(Btw; this " 2 years later" button is new? Quite frustrating to see... 😄


Cheers, Guenther

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