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Jessie_C
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Posted: Friday, March 02, 2012 - 03:34 PM UTC
Jim Whitbred shares his recently completed Hasegawa 1/32 Thunderbolt. Jim used several aftermarket upgrade sets and gave his model a very colourful paint job.

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Posted: Friday, March 02, 2012 - 03:58 PM UTC
Beautiful job Jim, it's certainly an eye-catching scheme and very well executed indeed.

Cheers, D
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Posted: Friday, March 02, 2012 - 06:22 PM UTC
Jim,

Superb!
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Posted: Saturday, March 03, 2012 - 01:26 PM UTC
Thanks a bunch for the kind words guys! It was kinda fun, a departure from the dirty beat up schemes I usually do. Take care and thanks again
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Posted: Saturday, March 03, 2012 - 02:36 PM UTC
Very, very good work there!! Thanks for sharing. Russell
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Posted: Saturday, March 03, 2012 - 03:01 PM UTC
What method did you use for the RMF?
MrMtnMauler
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Posted: Sunday, March 04, 2012 - 02:10 PM UTC

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What method did you use for the RMF?


It was my first Alclad experience. I primed with their primer, several light coats and then followed with Duraluminum and then isolated a couple panels with magnesium. Worked out pretty well I just needed to be a little more careful ilfting the tape, I lifted a bit of Alclad. Otherwise it was a piece of cake. Thanks again for the kind words guys.
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Posted: Sunday, March 04, 2012 - 05:04 PM UTC

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I just needed to be a little more careful lifting the tape, I lifted a bit of Alclad.


A handy hint I picked up here on Kitmaker is to use Post-it-notes for masking small panels for colour variation. They are very low-tack and easy to get nice straight lines.

Cheers, D
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