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Handiabled wrote:For an IP painted in that scale it looks awesome!

Thank you, Handi. And I know what you are able to conjure...

JimD wrote:(...)...90% isopropyl alcohol...will wipe the stuff off plastic like it was never there...so it may work too...

Thanks for the quick response. I 've just let slipped a bottle of 99% isopropyl into my rucksack. Sometimes it's good to be head of the fluids laboratory.

No need for apologies at all, Jim. Your help is much appreciated and with your evidence in my back I'm going to tackle this step with much more confidence now.

Get well soon!

Im looking forward to this one. Your IP looks fantastic...

Joe

oh wow thats fantastic!

On cleaning an airbrush after using Alclad colours: i just take Revell´s Airbrush Cleaner. Others say it´s just Dowanol, but I don´t know for sure. Revell´s cleaner is my jack of all trades when cleaning the airbrush from Alclad colours, their primers (black or grey) and of course Gunze and Tamiya colours. Works great for me and my H&S airbrushes!

Thanks for your input, Thomas. After my first Alclad session I cleaned my Triplex with Isopropyl Alcohol and it worked well. Think I'll stick with it cause I can get it for free.

Now what happend over the last weeks? I want to show a late war plane with unprimered inner surfaces, so I gave the wheel bays a coat of Alclad aluminium. Used Gunze black primer as base coat but should have thinned it a bit more. Came out quite rough and so the Alclad looks grainy, too. But for a dirty wheel well it's ok I think.

Fuselage is closed by now. I cut off the scissor link on the front gear strut (not there on late 262's) and cut the whole strut in two. So I can glue the upper part in place before closing the fuselage like it's stated in the instructions by avoiding snapping off the whole thing during future handling. Luckily there was a sinkhole in the center of the strut, so I can later put a piece of wire in it to allow a stable connection.



The cockpit is nearly finished, only the yellow emergency release lever for the canopy is to be added and the Revi, of course.

Beautiful craftmanship, to no surprise!

Not sure about the black primer being the reason for a rough surface; I see that model manufacturers not necessarily take the same effort to polish their moulds where inside surfaces are given.