Aggieman I downloaded your pictures, blew them up and dont see much reason to pull what you have done so far, just a couple of oddly placed pieces of foil is all on the left side of the tail. The steel wool will take care of that for ya though. Oh and the steel wool doesnt really dull the shine in fact it increases the shine a bit. What it really does is if you look at the foil, the shiney side you will see a heavy grain in the foil, the steel wool hides that heavily grained look by removing it. The dull side doesnt have that heavy grain in it. The really cool thing I have found is turning the grain differant ways on differant panels,  as on real aircraft the grain of the aluminim runs in differant directions, by turning the grain of the foil in differant directions you can create the same look after burnishing with the steel wool. I found that trick by accident to be honest. I burnish with steel wool in the same direction all the time, with the air flow over the plane just easy to remember for me, thats where you get the look I am talking about on the pieces of foil with the grain in a differant direction. As far as removing what you have done to this point, as I said earlier I dont see any point in doing that as it would be a nightmare I think. I found that with the Micro Scale adhesive that I can remove it with in a few minutes of applying it with out much trouble, but once the glue has cured it has to be scraped or sanded off, then you have the glue residue to deal with. Hope this helps ya out Aggieman.

Have a great Fathers Day

 

Looking good so far Randy. That is definetly a tough subject to foil. I build the same kit a while back as an F-5 Recon Lightning. There are alot of seems to fill.

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Thunderbolt379 Like your blog and the review, its come aways sence I was last there. I have found that Micro Foil Adhesive will clean up nicely with 91% alcohol, I didnt like the idea of cleaning it with paint thinner seemed to leave an oily film on my model that also needed cleaning up. I will start checking it more often now. Thanks for sharing it

 

 

Stupendous, Sherman -- thankyou so much! I have GOT to visit this museum! One of these days I will indeed be building some 58s, the Italeri 1:72 and the Monogram 1:48 (after fully rescribing the latter, a job so prepossessing that I'm thinking I might just keep a few parts around and scribe a line or two when I have time, and maybe in a year or two she'll be ready to assemble...)

Speaking of Hustlers, I posted an article about the Aurora, Lindberg and Italeri kits on my blog a few days ago, at the address below.

Cheers,

Mike

your welcome, the lighting at the museum is dark and a lot is focused on the aircraft, but the buildinga are huge, a B-36 can pass through them and the roof is painted black. I used a cannon power shot A560 so my flash wasnt that big. I used to live in Dayton so I have been there numerous times over the years. if in the area I highly reccomend seeing this collection.

A bit more progress. I found out the hard way it is a pain in the butt to do a model in half NMF and paint. It is tough separating both halves of the model because they are both being treated completly separatly. The painted bottom needed a coat of future and then a dullcoat for the decals. With the upper NMF I am applying the decals directly to the finish because of its smooth surface and I do not want and dullcoat overspray on it either. Here is a pic where I am at so far.

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Outstanding work Soulcrusher.  Love the color contrast.  Cant wait to see her completed.

 

I should be able to post some updated pictures of my 1/48 B-58 Hustler tomorrow.  The undercarriage is complete but not attached, and a bunch of foiling is completed.  I forgot how monotonous this is.  I thought I learned my lesson after the B-24.  I'll never learn.

 Hello again all, the work is lookin great, by everyone. I just couldn't let you guys have all the fun. I finally did it!!! I broke out ProMods, F-86D Sabredog. Finished up the pit and a few misc. bits today, and about to get back at it. Another late night, tomorrow is another day off. It's only been about 2 months (since building), but it feels like a lot longer. Feels good to be back at it.

 Dayton is terrible for pics. I took 2 rolls, and was quite disappointed.

Undercarriage is complete less a few lines i want to run.  They are not attached yet so I can finish the foiling.

 

Thanks for looking

Cheers

Lancair IV - Looking good so far!!  Everyone's builds are looking to be moving along well.

I have completed the foiling on my sabre, and was completely sure that I read that you could decal right over the foil without the need for a gloss coat, so that is what I did.  Either Academy's decals are the thickest that I have ever seen or something else is wrong.  On one of the wing decals it simply will not comform to the leading edge, I have tried everything, future, solvaset good ol' pressure and still i have a good 1/4 inch that will not sit down.  All in all none of the decals that I have applied have reacted at all to the solvaset, which normally has the tendency to destroy decals if used too much, and I have used 4 or more applications on each decal.

 So my next question is this, how does one remove decals without destroying the model.  I thought of sanding them off (would work well with paint) but am not sure what that would do to the foil.  I have already ordered new decals from Greatmodels and am searching fo some help in getting rid of the old decals.

Matt