Here's a product I found for masking curves. I'll use it for the MERDC pattern if I give up on the digital pattern I'm considering. The hobby shop I was at had a whole rack full but some appeared to have glitter or small plastic pieces mixed in. I avoided those.



Works good for tacking parts together but I haven't tried it for painting. Of course AK Products was at the nationals with their purpose made masking putty for only ten bucks. Usually around twenty online.

Looking great mate...I do love a hashed together machine and this fits the bill very well 😀

I use the AK masking putty Ken and mate ..it's well worth the coins..it's been used at least 5 or 6 times now and it's still as good as day one.
I'm pretty sure it's gonna last a long time .
Also it hasn't lifted any acrylics ive used it with .

Quote from: Wardukw on July 20, 2024, 11:56:27 AMLooking great mate...I do love a hashed together machine and this fits the bill very well 😀

I use the AK masking putty Ken and mate ..it's well worth the coins..it's been used at least 5 or 6 times now and it's still as good as day one.
I'm pretty sure it's gonna last a long time .
Also it hasn't lifted any acrylics ive used it with .

Sounds good to me. I looked at the AK stuff at the Nationals and it looks the same as this Aaron's stuff.

Quote from: kerick on July 20, 2024, 07:06:15 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on July 20, 2024, 11:56:27 AMLooking great mate...I do love a hashed together machine and this fits the bill very well 😀

I use the AK masking putty Ken and mate ..it's well worth the coins..it's been used at least 5 or 6 times now and it's still as good as day one.
I'm pretty sure it's gonna last a long time .
Also it hasn't lifted any acrylics ive used it with .

Sounds good to me. I looked at the AK stuff at the Nationals and it looks the same as this Aaron's stuff.

Only one way to find out 😆 🤣

Might be pretty soon.

  

Fiddling around with the fiddly bits lately. Not much to take a pic of at this point. It seems to take more time than anything else to decide where to place things like radio antennas. Making the part is easy.
 I'm making a mold for the smoke grenade launchers from the M60 Blazer kit. Hopefully I can make four of them and get them mounted.

It's always the small details which take the most time when it comes to these builds but they also bring the model to life   

The grenade launchers are giving me a fit. The mold is deep and the face of the grenade launcher which has the details is in the deepest part of the mold. This makes it hard to get enough UV light into the mold to cure all the resin. I'm going to try poring in two steps, curing the deepest part then poring more to fill the rest of the box. If this doesn't work then I'll get some two part resin and pore that. I'll save the UV stuff for shallow molds.

Quote from: kerick on July 28, 2024, 04:22:42 PMI'm going to try poring in two steps, curing the deepest part then poring more to fill the rest of the box. If this doesn't work then I'll get some two part resin and pore that. I'll save the UV stuff for shallow molds.

Daft question, but if you do that will the top half of the "pour" adhere to the bottom half ? I suppose if it doesn't then you could simply glue them together ?

Quote from: NARSES2 on July 29, 2024, 07:31:08 AM

Quote from: kerick on July 28, 2024, 04:22:42 PMI'm going to try poring in two steps, curing the deepest part then poring more to fill the rest of the box. If this doesn't work then I'll get some two part resin and pore that. I'll save the UV stuff for shallow molds.

Daft question, but if you do that will the top half of the "pour" adhere to the bottom half ? I suppose if it doesn't then you could simply glue them together ?

The UV resin bonds to itself and basically becomes one piece. I got two pretty good ones today using a two step pour. There were a couple of bubbles that I filled with more resin after I had removed them from the mold. One nice thing about the UV resin is I don't have to mix stuff just to get a little to fill a bubble or make a small part. Very efficient that way.

Cheers, that's interesting to know 

It responds well to crazy glue too.

I toke a mental break from the dog tonight and worked an ancillary build for my Ian McQue project. I took down an old build off the shelf a few months ago of an old Ricotank (I think) of the west German assault gun from the 70s Kanonenjadgpanzer that I converted to the HOT antitank missile version. It was 1/72nd scale or there abouts and I ripped off the front and have been building a 1/48th "cockpit" for it be become a tracked tug for pulling cargo around. I found the floor and one side of I think a spitfire cockpit, the seat from some other thing, made the back wall from the cockpit floor of some three seater and other parts of sheet plastic. Now I have to rebuild the areas over the tracks and add details. I'll probably paint it yellow or orange or something construction like. I found a pilot figure to fit without too much chopping but I'll have to make him look less military.

This is a great idea Ken and as ya can guess ..im very interested in seeing this 😄😄