I'm going to be building my fist resin kit. It is a Unicraft Cheranovsky BICh3, and looks like a cutey. I don't know much about Unicraft, other than the fact that they have a rather interesting spread of kits, mostly 1/72.

When I get the kit, which should be in a few weeks, I'll try to post some pics of this.

As to the BICh3 itself, I am somewhat familiar with the family of aircraft, as I built a larger than peanut scale model of the scaled up version, the BICh7A, and that flew quite well.

Good luck.

Be careful with the resin dust, it's nasty, unhealthy, stuff.

Keep your desk clean, wipe the dust in between sessions (or better, use a vacuum cleaner) and when sanding, use a mask

Good advice to avoid inhaling the resin dust. But if you can keep any of the dust in an old sealable pill bottle it makes for a pretty good filler when mixed in place with cyano.

Max, good luck with your 1st resin build. I've still only used resin AM parts, but a all resin build is in the near future with Fisher's PT-22.

When I do major sanding, I do it outside in the garage, and I always wear a mask.

Joel

I didn't know about saving any dust from sanding. Thanks for the tip.

You can also save sprues, cut them into thin pieces ( 2-3 mm) and dissolve them in Tamiya extra thin. It's a great filler!



Kind regards, Sven.

Ok, thanks.

I've a question about separating parts from the sprue. Can I use a hot knife on resin? This is recommended by the kit manufacturer, but I'm not sure.

I would test it on a scrap piece of the resin first to see how it behaves. I always use a razor saw to remove the pour stubs.

That's my first thought, on the pour stubs, but there are other parts which are connected to the sprue tree other than pour stubs. The tail- and wingtip-skids in particular.