Amodel I-207

[stillp]

Top of the fuselage is in:

Those two little dimples are to locate the struts for the upper wing. I tried gluing the struts to the wing, leaving it until the glue was set but not fully hardened
before lowering the wing into place and trying to locate all four struts into the dimples while keeping the wing square and level. After about the fourth re-gluing of the struts, and the addition of some white tack, I got this:
which doesn't look too bad. There are two diagonal braces between those struts, but I'll leave the glue to set overnight before risking any more effort.
Thanks for watching
Pete

[Guest]

I just noticed this is a biplane.

[adt70hk]

Well done Peter for sticking with it!! Remind me never to buy this kit if I see it!

ATB

Andrew

[stillp]

I just noticed this is a biplane.

It very nearly wasn't!

Well done Peter for sticking with it!! Remind me never to buy this kit if I see it!

ATB

Andrew

Remind me never to buy another Amodel kit, or another biplane!

Pete

[Guest]

It very nearly wasn't!

You’re doing a great job! Keep at it!

[colin m]

Great work Peter. At least all your problems will be small ones. No, doesn't help does it.

[stillp]

Now this is odd. one of the photos of the sprues shows a brown stain near the back edge of the rudder, that I thought must be a residue of mould release agent. It didn't wash off with soapy water or with IPA on a cotton bud, so I didn't worry about it. However, after painting with Tamiya XF80, it looked OK last night, but overnight the brown has bled through the paint!

Now what could cause that? I'll put another coat of XF80 on it later. Shame, it's nearly finished.
Pete

[Guest]

Weird. I can’t imagine what’s done that, only that it’s obviously contaminated.
Do you think a coat of spirit based paint / varnish might stop it coming through?

[Mini Me]

That would be my suggestion as well. Rick H.

[stillp]

Thanks for the suggestions chaps.
If it was resin or bitumen bleeding through gloss paint on wood, then I'd give it a coat of aluminium primer, or shellac, but I can't see shellac (is that what you meant by spirit-based?) being any more resistant to whatever's happening than the Tamiya paint, which is already an alcohol-based paint. Maybe a coat of enamel?
Looking at it in sunlight, I'm not sure if it is actually bleed-through or if I just applied the paint very thinly there. I'll try a heavier coat of Tamiya first I think.
Pete

[Guest]

Yeah, I meant enamel.
Worth trying the simplest option (i.e the paint) first.
Hope you sort it out. Eager to see the final result of this.

[stillp]

I gave it a whiff of Galeria matt, then another coat of Tamiya, and (touch wood) it looks OK. Photos later when the topcoat of Galeria has dried.
Pete

[Guest]

Sorry I'm a bit late to the party, but if your fix doesn't work, a good way to blot out any staining that's leeching though (if that's what it is) is a coat of black.

I know that's not an ideal base for your colour but I guess you could mask off the rudder and just black that, then once painted blag it off as tonal variation lol.

[stillp]

blag it off as tonal variation

That's what I was planning if this fix doesn't work!
Pete

[Guest]

Or slap a decal over it :smiling5: