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[OzzyO]

I have a bottle but I haven't been brave enough to try it yet.

After two bad goes with varnish, may be it's time to get it out!!

 

[Heather Kay]

 

[Heather Kay]

I've not had a "proper" holiday for over a year, so I decided to award myself the rest of the post-Easter week on light duties. In other words, doing whatever takes my fancy once the household chores are done.

As it turns out I have been helping Best Beloved by building a couple of amateur radio kits for him. His eyesight won't let him do the fiddly surface mount soldering any more, so muggins here gets the job. There's a thing about being outside your comfort zone. Yeah, that.

Anyway, this evening, now the varnish has dried nicely, I plan to pick my way carefully through this little lot.



The instrument panel transfers won't be needed, as I used aftermarket etched ones. Not that you can see them, but still.

 

[Heather Kay]

It was Rowney Artists Gloss. Thins nicely with white spirit, but can take a good day or two to dry hard. It's meant to be used for sealing oil paintings, but it's a nice thin and hard coat.

I will experiment with Klear on something I don't particularly care about first. I want to know whether brushing or spraying will work best.

 

[flexible_coupling]

Not at all a fan of SMD assembly (again - eyesight!); I prefer high-voltage valve audio. 380+V floating around, that gets the motor running!!

 

[Pugsley]

Klear sprays very nicely direct from the bottle, you don't need to thin it at all. You can brush it quite successfully as well, but I prefer to spray it.

 

[Heather Kay]

I plan to experiment. I think the cloudy liquid in the bottle I have has been putting me off!

Anyway, the transfers are done. I am quite convinced Airfix simply reduced the 1/48 versions down to 1/76. Quite frankly, I could have left half of them off and no-one would have noticed except me. All pastel pink and blue, barely noticeable on the white airframe!

A dose of matt varnish to finish things off, and final assembly before heading back to the display cabinet.

 

[Pugsley]

What kind of Klear have you got? None of mine is cloudy and it's a few years old now.

Loving the TSR2 BTW, I look forward to the day I get round to building mine.

 

[Rob Pulham]

What kind of Klear have you got? None of mine is cloudy and it's a few years old now.

It sounds like the description that I have read in several places of the new version - like yours I have a few bottles of the original and mine is still "Klear"

 

[Heather Kay]

What kind of Klear have you got? None of mine is cloudy and it's a few years old now.

Loving the TSR2 BTW, I look forward to the day I get round to building mine.

It's definitely Johnson's, but I think it's the new formulation. From what I've read it still dries clear, it's just cloudy in the bottle. I think a test is required, don't you?

 

[Pugsley]

Yes, I'd definitely test the cloudy stuff!

 

[Steph Dale]

Not at all a fan of SMD assembly (again - eyesight!); I prefer high-voltage valve audio. 380+V floating around, that gets the motor running!!

And the leccy meter turning over...
Steph

 

[OzzyO]

Hello Heather,

all of the things that I have read about the new klear is that it dries clear!~?

But please test it first.

OzzyO.

 

[Heather Kay]

Well, for good or ill, I deem this aircraft complete. Well, I have the intake covers and cockpit access ladders to fit, but that's it as far as painting and construction is concerned.





I will try and do some better "studio" style shots at some point.