Hi again, Im back and with another question.[:D]
Well one of the next major steps in building The Lady Be Good is to create the wrinkles in the aircrafts skin caused by the landing. Now I heard that useing a dremal to make gouges in th plastic then smoothing them over with steel wool gives a pritty good representation of this type of damage (I got this tip from Shepard Paine). What is your take on this technique, does it give the desired effect, and what other ways are there to represent this type of damage.
Thanks in advance for the responses
Vintage Aircraft
Vintage, i’m gonna share an experience that made me cry, but i took note of the results incase i ever wanted to build a wreck!! i was doing a P-51D of course, and screwed up the primer coat, so i tried to remove some of it. i used a chemical called MM Acryl Dried Paint Solvent. i began removing the primer coat and all was well. but, eventually the plastic began to get soft. you could kinda wrinkle the plastic at will for some pretty cool effects i thought. i did it by accident, but i tucked it away in the back of my noggin for further exploration later. could be an option i guess. i would surely try it on some scrap as you probably already know. later.
wow horrible to what happened to your kit, but that could just help me with what I need to do, thanks Ill put it on the things to test list.
I had once pondered that type effect with putting that tessors glue in the tubes, on the inside enough to soffen it up(I found out in my early days that using gobs of that stuff to put ball bearing in a P-61 nose has some rather less than desirable results) I donno, could work or just really really not work.
Hmmm…Ill put that down on the list too. Alothough it might be a litle hard to control, Ill test it out.
Hmmm… many great idea’s generating here! Thanks!!
Take care,
Frank
FSM had an article on this very topic way back in "94 or '95 or even earlier. I’m on the firehall computer right now so I can’t dig it out for you to tell you which issue. Anyhow, the author used anX-Acto blade to scrape troughs in the plastic and them polished them smooth. I’m not sure if it was one of X-Acto’s rounded blades or a blade he doctored himself.
Take care,
Bert
Bstrump-that sounds just like what I had intended to fo in the first place except with a dremel, thanks I going to look that up sometime today.
I ldug it out last night. The issue is Feb’94 FSM.
Good modeling to you!
Bert
bstrump you have just made my day, thanks a bunch. Now that I am confident I have the correct techinqiue I am going to review that artical, and if all goes well start the part of the project that could make or break my entire model.
Thanks again
Vintage Aircraft