Greetings from Nebraska and asking for help

Hi Matt, welcome to the Forums. Glad to have you aboard.

Try going to the aircraft section of these forums and post your question there. You might get lucky and someone there might have what you need. There are also sites that sell replacement canopies like Squadron and Sprue Bros. Try going there and searching their sites. Hope that you get lucky and find one. Maybe the guys on the aircraft section will know a site that has them. They are not dirt cheap but not real pricey either.

Good luck.

Jim  

Welcome! Yes, try Aircraft.

There's a number of ways to deal with this.

You could paint it gloss black, which considering it's a build by a young modeler, is not at all a bad way to go.

You could look for a replacement online. Try a search on Squadron. 

Revell is out of the production business right now, I don't think you'll get anything from them.

If you devote some effort with toothpaste and soft rags, you might get some results. There are plastic polishes around, but again it's an investment that you might want to avoid.

My main advice is to not let this become a point of frustration for him. It happens all the time. Can't tell you how many times I've glued stuff to my elbows, left decals on the copy machine at Kinkos, lost pieces. Keep it light and come up with a fun solution.

Welcome and good luck!

Bill

Hmmm;

 If you Really Need the insides to show then by all means get a new Canopy and Windshield . If not , carefully sand and polish till the glue roughness goes away and then paint it a fine Medium Dark Blue like the solid wood models .    P.S. Welcome to the forums .

Hi Matt -

GM gave good advice, depending on which thinner you spilled will determine how recoverable the canopy is by polishing. If enamel then a fair chance, if lacquer thinner which is much more agressive then less chance. By using progressively finer polishing pads and plastic polish, you might be able to restore it to usable.

And his suggestion to paint it black has worked for me several times. Welcome to the forums, great idea to involve your son, some fun times to be had modeling together.

Patrick

patrick206

Hi Matt -

GM gave good advice, depending on which thinner you spilled will determine how recoverable the canopy is by polishing. If enamel then a fair chance, if lacquer thinner which is much more agressive then less chance. By using progressively finer polishing pads and plastic polish, you might be able to restore it to usable.

And his suggestion to paint it black has worked for me several times. Welcome to the forums, great idea to involve your son, some fun times to be had modeling together.

Patrick

 

I have my 2 year old grandson help me put together kits by, airbrushing and glueing.  He helped me with the assembly of a Academy 1/72 B-17 ”Memphis Belle”.  Check it out on the aircraft section.  He helped with the airbrushing of the kit.

It’s not perfect by any means but I cherish this kit the most!  We definately have fun working together.

Welcome to FSM Forums!

Your friend, Toshi

Thanks everyone.  The painting it black actually seemed like the best option once we took a look at two other kits we have yet to build.  A Monogram EA-6B and a Revell F-14A.  When looking at the kits, the Prowler only has 3 aircrew and the Tomcat only has the pilot.  So we decided we could paint the Intruder black, take our two guys out of it and use them for the other two kits.  

Toshi I know the feeling.  My favorite kit when I was a kid was one my stepdad and I built of the USS Forrestal.  I'm seriously considering getting that one as a winter project for me and my boy to try to recreate that same feeling.  It wasn't perfect by any stretch but it was fun and it sat proudly (horrible paint job and all) for years until a move ruined it.

Welcome to the Forums!

Welcome aboard

I'll echo what others have said. Sand with successively finer grades of paper---down to 'automotive' grades; polish with a 'paste' (i.e., non-gel) type toothpaste; buff well with an old t-shirt; then dip parts in Future acrylic. You may not be able to tell there was any damage.

One caution, though: clear plastic can be more brittle than the opaque type. If a part gets 'flexed' too much while sanding or polishing, you may get stress cracks that won't polish out. Just make sure the part is well-supported.

Good luck!

Welcome to the forums!  

Is this the A-6E kit you have:

If so, I have this kit at home. I've been using as a test platform for paints and such. I believe I still have the canopy, but, I'll need to verify when I get home. 

That is exactly the kit.  If you still have the canopy I would greatly appreciate it.  

Hi there.  Yeah I am in Ralston.  3rd Wednesday of the month? I may be able to get away on those nights and check you guys out.  

Oh I will have to check that out.  Thanks for the heads up.  Hope to see you there

You could just make it a paint mule for practicing different painting and weathering techniques. I did that to a spitfire I ruined the canopy on right after getting back into this hobby and it made the model a useful tool instead of a loss.

Here is the canopy:

It's in good shape,

If you want it, all I will charge you is a PM of your address! 

 ready for finishing

She isn't the prettiest gal in the show and compared to alot of the models on here it's a very shoddy build, but at this point it's still the best model me and my son have built together.  Here she is all decaled up.  Going to put some gloss on her and then do a little bit more weathering on it before we hang it up in my son's room.  

Matt,

The A-6 turned out very well! What do you have planned next to build with your son?