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                        Help with Alclad II please

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                        vfrvulcan
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        Help with Alclad II please
                        Posted by vfrvulcan on Monday, March 28, 2005 5:20 PM
                        I'm having trouble with Alclad II - specifically the Polished Aluminum and Pale Burnt Metal. Apologies if this has been asked before as this is my first post (no flames please :-))

                        I'm a novice when it comes to airbrushing in general but I recently covered an F-101 Voodoo with Alcald Duraluminum without any problems.

                        If you look at the pic below, the F-104 Starfighter wing on the right has been sprayed with Polished Aluminum, the one on the left with Chrome (for lexan). The 3 engine exhausts in the background have been sprayed with Alcald Pale Burnt Metal, these seem to have left a 'salty' finish (why?).

                        My main question is this...

                        What happened to the Polished Aluminum wing on the right????? Is that what is called 'crazing'? Can I remove it and start again? I'm hesitant to use this again at 4UKP/bottlle (and a local store tries to charge £6) until I know what went wrong.

                        In all cases each item has been primed with Spectrum Gloss Black (UK)



                        A full size with more detail (1.7MB) image can be found at http://www.spilling.org.uk/dscn6587.jpg
                        Hope you can help Guys!

                        Regards

                        Aaron
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 28, 2005 5:51 PM
                        Good lord resize that pic!!! I have 4mb/s cable and it still took well over 2 minutes to load!
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                        MA Cooke
                        • Member since
                          February 2005
                        • From: Cincinnati, OH
                        Posted by MA Cooke on Monday, March 28, 2005 7:38 PM
                        Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

                        Try Swanny's site, he has a tutorial on using Alclad II:

                        http://www.swannysmodels.com/Alclad.html

                        Swanny knows it all. If he doesn't know it, it doesn't exist.

                        On Bench: AM P-51B, Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1A On Deck: Hasegawa F-14's (too many); Tamiya P-47D; Academy P-47N;
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                        vfrvulcan
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        Posted by vfrvulcan on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:32 AM
                        Sorry Guys, picture now resized.

                        The download time for is because I'm sitting on the end of a 750K cable with a lousy upstream of just 128k Disapprove [V]

                        Thanks for the reference to Swanny, will check that out now.

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