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A nice glossy Future surface should be okay, with no setting solution. Then after putting the decal on, use a light coat of decal solution, or plain white vinigar, to set it.. though a couple more coats of Future would do as well. With future, you really don't need decal soutions, unless they're old...

I've done it. Beware of dust though.. that can make it worse.

The actual data on a CD is on the back side, under the lable. The shiny side is just a clear coating. I've also seen a CD sanded smooth and re-polished.

Future cleans up with amonia (windex) and if you used a decal-set for the decals or let water pool on the future, it might have acted like a solvent. If it stays discolored, the only answer is an amonia stripping and re-coat. When you airbrush Future, it makes a very thin coat (thin enough to rub of...

If you brush it on, is it 'self leveling'? or will it really show brush strokes?

I wonder if anybody has tried supporting an egg inside a chicken...

While I prefer Aves, there is an advantage to squadron putty. It's quick and cenvenient. Just squeeze a little on your finger and spread it on.

The same thing happens with squadron green putty, though Aves Apoxie never shrinks and is rock hard when set.

You get to... build models in the house? Where it's warm? Wow, lucky you! Heh, just kidding. I was told that I could do what I wished, with the garage. It's amazing how quickly the wife couldn't park her car in it any more.

So, I got a passle of testers Metalizer and they suggest laquer thinner.. do i really NEED laquer thinner? or is turpentine fine? how about turpanoid (which is what I actually have on hand)??

Besides super-gluing tabs into slots, a couple options are to drill holes in the wings and through the body and put a coat hanger through it. Another option is to saw the bottom of the body open, to glue or pin some bracing across the bottom of the wings, then glue the body back together.

With the grass turf, I've had good luck, with watered-down white glue and a drop fo dish soap, from a spray bottle. There's another grass affect that you may not have considered. For fantasy minitures, small-grit sand looks cool as grass. White-glued down, painted green, with a darker wash and light...

If you haven't installed them yet, paint them with liquid mask, then install them. Personally, I plan to fill around them with super-glue, polish, then mask with punched tape.

um.. why? Personally, I use alcohol-n-water.

Mine's pretty tight, just taped.

Here's a review that my good friend, Google, spit out at me
http://www.swannysmodels.com/Surfacer.html

Any comparisons to 'sandable' primer?

My workbench has a shelf, in front of a window and I noticed that my Zap-a-gap started solidifying in a month... I heard that sunlight would do that, so I moved it down, to a shaded spot and the same bottle has been squishy for about a year.

While supplicating at my workbench today, I found great comfort in one of my favorite verses: Future 15 "The path of the righteous model builder is beset on all sides by the inequities of cheap spray finishes and tyranny of tacky gloss coats. Blessed is he, who in the name of Smooth Finishes an...

God help me.. I gotta wonder now, what the scriptures of the X-acto blade must be like.

When I'm kitbashing, with different shaped pieces of different kinds of plastic, and putty galore, I spray sandable primer on, give it a light sanding to see what stands out as pits or raised spots.. fix them, re prime, and repeat as needed. Some day I'm going to try-out Mr. Surfacer. Different colo...

Mine's between one and two years old and perfectly good.

That resin is wonderfull stuff.. you can make it paper thin.. but you'll know when you have gone to far. Generally, it's fairly strong down to an eighth of an inch thick.

The only real way to know, is to try it and develope a feel for it, yourself.

Ah, a model builder after my own heart (the fem-figs, that is, hur hur). welcome to the party! For the Shuttles, the DVDs of the original series is really, your best source. I really wouldn't try hollowing out those engines, without more experience. It's the sort of thing that if you where up to tha...

it's safer? what, it's less explosive? It'll make you blind slower?

I also have a black floquil primer.. some finishes look best over black.

I've tried it.. but I didn't inhale.

Make sure that the area your going to fill is completely clean. For that, you'll want to do a cavity search....

I picked-up an air-tank at a garage sale recently and am looking at putting a regulator on one side and pressure switch on the other, then just getting a $20 'flat-tire compresser' from Walmart on it.

I got a kit from my local hobby store and have made several decals in the last year, on my Cannon inkjet. My printer puts out really nice photographs, but the printing on my decals is a little 'grainy' which might be the decal paper itself. After spraying the decals and applying, they look fine, tho...

Strangely, my wife flately refuses to use Future for anything remotely like what it is intended for.