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Old 01-03-2010, 02:52 PM
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Well, after much trial and error, wailing and gnashing of teeth when I did my Mig-21 canopy,
I must add this trick to my cluebag. Wish you had done this like, Thanksgiving! Sierra Hotel,
Bravo Zulu, and whatever others you can come up with!
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Old 01-03-2010, 03:31 PM
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Great work, Mike! Very cool hints... BTW - if you have to paint the edges, why not just paint the whole piece - though I love to see you reinvent the wheel!
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Old 01-03-2010, 03:54 PM
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Excellent work Mike! I've been using the label/sticker paper idea on all of my canopies. It works great!!!
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Old 01-03-2010, 04:02 PM
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Wish you had done this like, Thanksgiving!
Sorry my timings was off Ray, but I think you'll have plenty of chances to use this trick. I doubt we've seen the last micro MiG 21 from you.....

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if you have to paint the edges, why not just paint the whole piece
No reason not to, good point Chris. I guess I'm just being a traditionalist paper modeler (whatever that means). Actually in my case, the supply of paint I mixed up to match the Orlik green is getting dangerously low, so printing the bulk and just doing touch up will help conserve what I have to the bitter end (I hope!).....

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Excellent work Mike! I've been using the label/sticker paper idea on all of my canopies. It works great!!!
Thanks for the confirmation WG! I figured this wasn't new tecnology, just seemed like a no-bainer.

As a follow-up to this afternoon's activities, I waited an hour and tried to pull off the framing I placed on my test piece:



The paper separated and I had a hard time scraping off what was left behind with my fingernail, so as Willygoat says "works great"! I'm going to use the Orlik parts as patterns and line this thing tonight.

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Old 01-03-2010, 04:23 PM
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What's the "Blue Magic" stuff? Is it some household type product?
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Old 01-03-2010, 07:08 PM
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What's the "Blue Magic" stuff?
This stuff Jim:

http://bluemagicusa.com/index.php/bl...c/products/102

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Old 01-03-2010, 07:26 PM
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That blue magic stuff does work great. I had to polish the plexi on my F-150's dash gauges and it did the trick. Seems someone before I got it used alcohol on the plexi and made it cloud up. This stuff polished it right out.

I concur with willygoatt on the labels for canopy frames........ been using that for a couple of years now. I even use it on paper canopies to replace the frames and make them look a little better. OCD I know.........:D

Bomarc........ are you going to have this done in time to get it to Pensecola by the 15th? I sure would like to see it in person.

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Old 01-03-2010, 07:59 PM
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Kerosene works great on motorcycle helmet face shields but I don't know about small stuff.
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Old 01-03-2010, 08:08 PM
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are you going to have this done in time to get it to Pensecola by the 15th? I sure would like to see it in person
Pensacola, Florida?! I'm sorry but I wasn't planning to go there, even if I could wrap this model up by the 15th. Why do ask?

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Old 01-03-2010, 10:31 PM
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My bad......... I thought that was what was in Wily's thread............

Gulf-coast cardmodelers...

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Zat........ that's a new one on me.... kerosene never would have thought to try that.
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