GusMac Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 That's a rather large hairball in the spray booth! 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Carl Brilliant Phantom build for sure. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 If it's not cats on my bench, now it's spiders!!! Sigh, well at least Jimmy doesn't come into the basement. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted April 27 Author Share Posted April 27 Counting ammo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 1 hour ago, Martinnfb said: Counting ammo You're probably right. Making sure there's the right mix of tracer rounds. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark31 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Mark 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 Mark , that looks like a million dollars. I picked this 1/35 V-1 yesterday, super fast build for fun. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 24 minutes ago, Martinnfb said: Mark , that looks like a million dollars. I picked this 1/35 V-1 yesterday, super fast build for fun. Nice! Is that the Bronco kit? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Martin, Looks awesome! Sometimes those quick builds are so fun. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Yesterday, I tried to earn some experiences, working with white metal. I took the exhaust parts, which will be finished in a chrome look from my Model Factory Hiro kit of the 1/9 scale Crocker and first got rid off the the parting lines with sanding sticks and drilled out the connecting holes.. The parts looked like this, then; Then I used a rotary tumbler to refine the surfaces and clean the parts. In the hexagonal plexiglass cylinder are steel balls of 1 mm diameter, some drops of detergent and water. After about half an hour the parts looked like this. The good, the parts are clean, shiny and evenly refined The treatment ´hardens´ the surface a bit. The bad, you can see spots, where the balls couldn´t reach the surface in crevices or narrow angles and around details. Very fine details like heads of screws got rounded a bit. I guess that´s the reason, many cast metal builder use magnetic polishing tumblers, where tiny steel pins rotate in the water bath cleaning the parts. I hope, I can lay my hand on one of these soon. Finally, I wanted to try some polish on the parts, using the famous (at least in Germany) Autosol polish on the exhausts. I didn´t want to go all the way to a mirror sheen finish, as this will need some better preparation, I just wanted to get a feeling. Verdict, it seems possible to polish white metal parts to look like chrome. The rotating tumbler should only be used with not too detailed parts. My guess is, a magnetic tumbler polisher is best to prepare the white metal parts for painting or polishing. Cheers Rob 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1 hour ago, DocRob said: Yesterday, I tried to earn some experiences, working with white metal. I took the exhaust parts, which will be finished in a chrome look from my Model Factory Hiro kit of the 1/9 scale Crocker and first got rid off the the parting lines with sanding sticks and drilled out the connecting holes.. The parts looked like this, then; Then I used a rotary tumbler to refine the surfaces and clean the parts. In the hexagonal plexiglass cylinder are steel balls of 1 mm diameter, some drops of detergent and water. After about half an hour the parts looked like this. The good, the parts are clean, shiny and evenly refined The treatment ´hardens´ the surface a bit. The bad, you can see spots, where the balls couldn´t reach the surface in crevices or narrow angles and around details. Very fine details like heads of screws got rounded a bit. I guess that´s the reason, many cast metal builder use magnetic polishing tumblers, where tiny steel pins rotate in the water bath cleaning the parts. I hope, I can lay my hand on one of these soon. Finally, I wanted to try some polish on the parts, using the famous (at least in Germany) Autosol polish on the exhausts. I didn´t want to go all the way to a mirror sheen finish, as this will need some better preparation, I just wanted to get a feeling. Verdict, it seems possible to polish white metal parts to look like chrome. The rotating tumbler should only be used with not too detailed parts. My guess is, a magnetic tumbler polisher is best to prepare the white metal parts for painting or polishing. Cheers Rob Looking good Rob, I use AutoSol all the time especially when cleaning airbrush needles. It cleans and polishes very well indeed….. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 2 hours ago, DocRob said: Yesterday, I tried to earn some experiences, working with white metal. I took the exhaust parts, which will be finished in a chrome look from my Model Factory Hiro kit of the 1/9 scale Crocker and first got rid off the the parting lines with sanding sticks and drilled out the connecting holes.. The parts looked like this, then; Then I used a rotary tumbler to refine the surfaces and clean the parts. In the hexagonal plexiglass cylinder are steel balls of 1 mm diameter, some drops of detergent and water. After about half an hour the parts looked like this. The good, the parts are clean, shiny and evenly refined The treatment ´hardens´ the surface a bit. The bad, you can see spots, where the balls couldn´t reach the surface in crevices or narrow angles and around details. Very fine details like heads of screws got rounded a bit. I guess that´s the reason, many cast metal builder use magnetic polishing tumblers, where tiny steel pins rotate in the water bath cleaning the parts. I hope, I can lay my hand on one of these soon. Finally, I wanted to try some polish on the parts, using the famous (at least in Germany) Autosol polish on the exhausts. I didn´t want to go all the way to a mirror sheen finish, as this will need some better preparation, I just wanted to get a feeling. Verdict, it seems possible to polish white metal parts to look like chrome. The rotating tumbler should only be used with not too detailed parts. My guess is, a magnetic tumbler polisher is best to prepare the white metal parts for painting or polishing. Cheers Rob Rob Quite the experiment and learning experience. The exhaust headers do look really good. Surely seems that when getting into kits with a lot of white metal and cast parts the magnetic tumbler polisher is the way to go. Just out of curiosity with shipping, it is an expensive piece of equipment.? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 13 hours ago, Martinnfb said: Mark , that looks like a million dollars. I picked this 1/35 V-1 yesterday, super fast build for fun. Martin Looking mighty good and nothing like a quick build to keep the juices going. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 19 hours ago, mark31 said: Mark Mark Looking mighty good and as always, super progress. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 4 hours ago, Peterpools said: Just out of curiosity with shipping, it is an expensive piece of equipment.? You can get them for about 150 Euro with free shipping, but it depends where you live. I found a vendor, who ships it for 30 Euros to my place. Others claimed they do, but then refused. Fingers crossed with the actual one, it´s not on it´s way now. Cheers Rob 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Thanks, Rob for the pricing and shipping information. Something to surely think about if spread out across a number of builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnie Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 F-111A Cockpit from Reskit in the works. Just dry fitting. This is sitting at the bench in Winnipeg whilst I'm enjoying a damp afternoon in Lafayette, LA... Short notice sim training, but headed back home tomorrow. CHeers! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Doc, VERY interesting! Thanks for the info. Mark - always good to see 'in flight' with pilots. Can't wait to see the rest. Winnie, Looking good! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Nothing. Absolutely nothing on the bench. Just finished cleaning up after the He 111. Now it’s decision time. Stuka? Cutlass? Me 262? A surprise from the stash?? Been itching to do that A-7D Corsair with the Zacto correction. Or the Crusader….hmmmmm… 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Scott, WWAYYYY too clean!!! I'm embarrassed to say this is MY current mess. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Meh, it’s not that bad. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 5 hours ago, ScottsGT said: Cutlass? That's my vote! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 9 hours ago, ScottsGT said: Nothing. Absolutely nothing on the bench. Just finished cleaning up after the He 111. Now it’s decision time. Stuka? Cutlass? Me 262? A surprise from the stash?? Been itching to do that A-7D Corsair with the Zacto correction. Or the Crusader….hmmmmm… My vote is for Vought ! Hubert 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 11 hours ago, CANicoll said: Scott, WWAYYYY too clean!!! I'm embarrassed to say this is MY current mess. Chris Yikes, close to a record for sure. Seems to be two types of builders on the forum: Those with neat clean benches throughout a build Those with just the opposite. We should have a forum pole as to who falls into which group. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted May 1 Author Share Posted May 1 Vought for Vought. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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