Jaitea
Master Member
I bought this completed kit off eBay,....at a very good price
I don't want to post any pics of her as I got her, because she was someones pride & joy
So once I got my hands on her, I started dis-assembing her.....starting with the engine deck
Superglued parts popped straight off.....I did notice that some parts were glued in the wrong positions & some were omitted....but I should be able to rectify that
I took out the 4 plastic frames that held the engine deck together & cleaned up the now smooth surface....baby wipes helped take the weathering off the model,...the previous owner painted directly to the plastic with no primer or base coat, so the paint rubbed off
I then used foamex on the rear of the parts to level all the pieces together & filled all the join gaps
The maintenance bay pits ere a different story,...they were painted with gloss black enamels.....a thorough clean up job was needed to remove the thick paint & fluff trapped in the paint
I used some parts from my spares (supplied by Haystack Hair) to update & sharpen the DeAgo parts in one of the pits,...the rod in the middle of this part will have to be scratched....a pice of hull piping had been glued in here
So plenty of fun
Thanks for looking
John
I don't want to post any pics of her as I got her, because she was someones pride & joy
So once I got my hands on her, I started dis-assembing her.....starting with the engine deck
Superglued parts popped straight off.....I did notice that some parts were glued in the wrong positions & some were omitted....but I should be able to rectify that
I took out the 4 plastic frames that held the engine deck together & cleaned up the now smooth surface....baby wipes helped take the weathering off the model,...the previous owner painted directly to the plastic with no primer or base coat, so the paint rubbed off
I then used foamex on the rear of the parts to level all the pieces together & filled all the join gaps
The maintenance bay pits ere a different story,...they were painted with gloss black enamels.....a thorough clean up job was needed to remove the thick paint & fluff trapped in the paint
I used some parts from my spares (supplied by Haystack Hair) to update & sharpen the DeAgo parts in one of the pits,...the rod in the middle of this part will have to be scratched....a pice of hull piping had been glued in here
So plenty of fun
Thanks for looking
John
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