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its a He111 with the multiple nose windows.
All the windows are marred with "lines" of paint here and there, just under the frames.
How can i remove them? i'm thinking of using toothpicks to scrape? i don't know....
I'm not doing ANYTHING until i hear from you guys
Did you soak it first in Future?
If so, try a Windex soak. Hopefully the Future will come off and take the paint with it.
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If you didn't use a clear cote on them, then a careful scraping with a toothpick will work perfectly.
- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"
M. Brindos If you didn't use a clear cote on them, then a careful scraping with a toothpick will work perfectly.
I have it happen occasionaly with enamels (usually it's because some tape peeled up or I failed to completely mask and left a little spot open. Anyway, I use a little bit of thinner, on a brush...very little. Brush it over the paint, let it sit a minute, brush again. It's slow, but gets the job done. If ya get too much thinner on the clear part, you'll jack it up!
Try clipping the tip of a round wooden toothpick at an angle to get a nice chisel tip to scrape or push the paint off.
Ken
If you have a sheet of ultra thin photoetch metal, some have rounded cornors on the edges of the sheet. very carefully use the edge of the metal to scrape the paint off. Go very slow.
If you use a solvent it needs to be very weak. I had a bottle of stuff called turpinoid (not turpentine) that I used to use for such disasters before I ran out and tried the photoetch metal edge. Another more drastic method is to take a sliver of dry ice and touch it to the paint you want to get rid of and then remove it. The paint will crumble and fall off the plastic, be careful because the nearby paint and glue may do the same thing.
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