Revell 1/8 corvette

[james pithouse]

ken, get the head lights and brake lights and incators working that will be a challage for you

[Guest]

A challenge too far Jim.

[Ian M]

With the size of that thing I would af thought that lights would be easy, the real challenge would be making it RC.

[james pithouse]

I agree that ian that would be a challenge. There you go ken RC the corvette with your genius brain ken, I thought the electrics would be easy for you to do the head lights and the brakes and the indicators

[Guest]

Making the lights work would involve making them flip up and down as well.
If i was to rc it i would have to put blacked out windows and there would have bern no point opening up the doors as i would then have to glue them closed to hide all the rc gear.

[james pithouse]

fair enough ken you win

[Guest]

Hi all another update, got some primer on (its halfords plastic primer) Ive used it loads of times and never had this reaction before

It's on both the doors (which were part of the body till I cut them out, so all the same plastic and yet the car body seems unaffected

Seems strange will strip the doors and re spray them, hopefully that will correct it.

[james pithouse]

strange that's unusual for you ken to get that happen to you. I cannot say much really as I can not spray properly I hold the spray can like it says on the tin, the primer goes on easily as it is Halfords plastic primer. But after putting one the first coat of primer first. After waiting 20 mins then I used 1200 grit wet and dry washed the grit off dried the part and put second coat on and done the same. Then I let it dry over night come to put the top coat on with pearl red I done what the tin said but I always get runs or blemish's and now the fering is snapped which means I would have to bye the part from Tamiya as they do not do like airfix or revell I give up on models unless someone else sprays the parts for me. Take a look and you see what I mean by snapped fering on my haybosa

[Gern]

When I first saw the title of this one, I wondered why it wasn't in Ian's battleship build. Then I thought "How in the name of all the Gods is he gonna fit a 1/8 scale ship in a display case!"

[Guest]

What was under the primer? Just bare plastic? Did you have anything on your hands before handling the doors?

[Guest]

Just bare plastic on both the body and doors.

[yak face]

Is that the filler primer youre using ken? If so its a much thicker paint than the standard grey one . Its designed to go on thick to fill any blemishes or scratches before being flatted down ( on full size cars of course) . If so then the crazing is a result of the thick paint drying at different rates on the surface. If youve used it before with no problems then maybe it was release agent on the plastic . Looks like a fine sanding down should sort it , cheers tony

[Guest]

Hi all here is the next update, tried black but don't like it so will have to think on that one.

[james pithouse]

try cobalt blue but at least you stop the crack effect on the primer

[james pithouse]

try cobalt blue but at least you stopped the crack in the primer what coursed it