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Using overpour on a resin kit

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  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Using overpour on a resin kit
Posted by mfsob on Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:44 PM
I am working on my second 1/700 Victory ship, and trying to do a more accurate job that the first attempt. Having actually seen, touched and crawled over, under and through one last month certainly helped!

I need to add a little bit of bulkhead on the boat deck, where there is a gap between the superstructure and the forward kingposts. My question is, can I get away with using some of the thin resin overpour, since it is flexible and there's a curve involved instead of a right angle? Or will it be too fragile?

I would rather do that than spring for MORE styrene - I've already invested in the .-25-inch styrene rods for the cargo booms because they have got to be easier to work with than brass, but would rather not buy more stuff I won't use up in 10 years.
  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Monday, May 30, 2005 8:36 AM
Anyone? I'm really clueless as to whether this would work, seeing as how this is only my second resin ship kit.
  • Member since
    May 2003
  • From: Greenville, NC
Posted by jtilley on Monday, May 30, 2005 10:45 AM
I see no reason not to try it. Resin in thin sheets is fragile all right - but logic suggests that, in a case like this, the stress and brutality you inflict on the part when you install it will be the most it will ever have to withstand. If you can get it to work, it will work; if it breaks in the process, you'll need to buy some styrene (or brass, or something).

If I were you, I'd try it and see if it works.

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