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I built one of these years ago, when it was new, and I don't remember any of these things being an issue. You certainly did a fine job with it.

Nice. Martha Stewart would not approve, so what? Looks good an heavy, which is what you want. 👍

I never pre-wash styrene. I've never seen excessive mold release, but more importantly, I'm going to cover the model with oily finger prints before it's finished. Then I to give the model a through wash down with isopropyl before primer/paint

I run into that problem as well. Usually, I use a little bit of tape to make a flag on the cocktail stick with the part number. or, if it's the bigger bamboo stick, I just write the number on the stick. And then just don't paint over the number.

My first was using 123 blocks, which is fine with a small number of parts. I made one out of Gatorboard, but it was too light, and the sticks would catch sometimes, which lifted the whole board. That was annoying and caused dropped parts. These are heavy, and sturdy. I would have to actively try to knock one over.

I remove everything, clean it, fix seams etc, then attach it to a cocktail stick, or a bamboo skewer for painting. I can't remember last time I painted something on the sprue.

I'll post a link to the page. https://www.spotmodel.com/product_info.php?products_id=57412 The parts in the photos look kinda meh. I took a bit of a leap with this, as I have never bought anything from KMP before. I have to say though, the parts look gorgeous in person.

I just bought another Abarth so I can use it with this conversion kit. Both arrived today. Giant (width) tires give it a go-kart stance.

The paint is drying in the air. Likely you need to thin it, it's probably lost some of it's original thinner over time to evaporation.

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Idk if you would want to say that to his face...

Mini Art is great. But I've built two of these Tamiya razorbacks, and have at least that many in the stash. No reason to replace a good thing.

It's interesting. I buy into the blue upper surfaces, based on what Bell has to say and the photo documentation. What I see as wrong here is the wings would have been blue first. That was the whole point of this, cover the silver since N.A. was now supplying them in natural metal with silver painted wings. before we (the USAAF) decided it was unnecessary. So this should be reversed. Blue on the outer wings, with green. (or more blue) over the invasion bars. Not trying to poop on this guys work. I like it, I just don't think it fits the facts. As I understand them.

150 hours to build. 1.25 seconds to wreck!

I think there is plenty of evidence for blue. I have seen color profiles in all sorts of ridiculous colors (red!) but blue fit's the available evidence. And it would be interesting. Mustangs are esentially boring, so a weird paint job would liven it up some. Mine will be blue.

Hey, New to posting, not new here, per se. Been lurking here forever.