Thanks mostrich. I had read up one some people's horror stories with mineral/white spirit and the bandai kits. I tried an experiment with with klean strip odorless mineral spirits and brushed some lightly on the spare hatch cover from the kit. I didn't get dramatic cracking or brittle shattering some people have had but it did cause a dimple in a thin spot of the hatch. Difficult to see in the pic but you can see the discoloration it caused. That was after only a few minutes. I can see how problems can happen if you use a wash of oil paint and mineral spirit, if it pools and gets on the interior of the assembled parts.
I've never tried lighter fluid before. If I wanted to do like a dot filter with oil paint would it work like mineral spirits? I have some chalk pastels and thought about scraping those to use in a wash as opposed to the normal oil paint and mineral spirit like I used on my fine molds tie.
I hit everything with a coat of alclad white primer tonight. No problems with the lacquer based primer.
Next up I plan to do some preshading with black before a light ghost grey color coat. I use model master enamels and I think I may use lacquer thinner instead of mineral spirits or the testors thinner to cut down on the dry time. The bandai plastic has me a bit paranoid lol.
I drilled out the rocket launcher tonight as well.
