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  • Member since
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  • From: Maryland
What causes this?
Posted by wpwar11 on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 7:57 PM

What causes this dark ring?

 Not long ago when I was about to 

  • Member since
    January 2020
  • From: Maryland
Posted by wpwar11 on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 7:58 PM

The rest of that reads- Not long ago I was about to clean these parts and I notice this dark ring.  It’s a Revell F18E kit.

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 8:00 PM

Maybe the styrene had FOD in it.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:12 PM

What happened there?

Well, it's an easy explanation. When the plastic was flowing into the mold it got slowed by a Temperature Differential in the mold walls. This allowed the plastic to gather up and get too hot. I  would recommend replacing the missile bodies with Evergreen Tube, They could be brittle

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