Sea Cobra
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Not something you'd call an engineering marvel...
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Humbrol 105 behaved very well during spraynig
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Instruction shows only placement of part of the included decals
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The decals (though very old) went on extremely well
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But the the problem s begun - second layer of GX100 here
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Thinned the paint a bit more - no change
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The paint didn;t want to flow under 1 bar, hmmmmm...
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And here's the culprit, dunno what it is but it was blocking the nozzle.
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And when I thought it's the last step - UV cut flat varnish...
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... it reacted with the Humbrol (which was sealed with GX100) 😠
Comentarios
16 February 2019, 08:53
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Looking good, there is also a nice cockpit in resin, when you can find it
18 April 2019, 04:36
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Hi Bart, thanks, but I decided to stay with the contents of the kit 🙂 Currently it's already sprayed green, but the enamel has to dry before I continue 🙂
18 April 2019, 08:31
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Sorry to dissapoint you, but the Cobra landed in the trash bin tonight. It went fine till I started sealing the kit using GX112, then it reacted with the Humbrol under the gloss varnish and started to peel off everywhere 😠 Maybe one day I'll build another one, but for now I'm moving on to other kits. In case you want to check the details, I added the pics and captions from todays fight.
Thanks and take care!
20 April 2019, 21:09
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Either GX100 gloss layer was too thin or I sprayed too much of GX112. I'll retest it soon on some unused parts.
26 April 2019, 13:18
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Well, nope, I do it only for the rare kits (e.g. Avanti or Electra). This tooling is freely available either from Aeroplast or Italeri, so I'll build one of them would I ever like to come back to this topic😉
And I have another single-engined Cobra in my stash too, so I decided it's not worth it.
28 April 2019, 19:54
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😄 Maybe one day I'll come back to SeaCobra, maybe even after my imminent USS Interpid visit😉
24 May 2019, 19:24