Kovozavody prostejov ( KP) 1/72 Fouga magister

[Mickc1440]

Great work Tony, never seen this before but its a nice looking crate

[Guest]

Tony .
Most impressive work on a thing so small . Like Jim I think those brass pins are a splendid idea.

[Allen Dewire]

Well ok Tony, you lost me here! You were building a flying orange wing thingy and had probs with the decals, that you fixed really well....Now, I see you are building a 'cuss' word (in another language) new wing thingy kit. I just did a read through and you are doing another great job too!!! I'll do my best to try and keep up with you Sir!!!...Oh, and great use of the Albion tubing you bought. It's really useful in our hobby...

Prost
Allen, confused in Bamberg...

[yak face]

Tailplanes on and setting at the correct angle ( knew I would find a use for those airfix starter set paints !)
Ive also been filling the gaps around the canopy and fettling the wing joins

[yak face]

Progress has been very slow on this one but I’m a little further on now. I got a coat of white primer on ( UMP / Stynlrez ) a few days ago ,and yesterday came to see about getting some colour on the tail and nose. When handling the model to mask up the white strip under the tail the primer started rubbing off in places . It seems that the white primer is nowhere near as good as the black , not sticking to the bare plastic very well at all - most unimpressed ! After a good swearing session I had to sand the areas where it had rubbed off , trying to get a feather edge so I could re prime. This time I took no chances and blasted the whole thing with Halfords white primer straight from the can . Lesson learnt - bin the white stynlrez , after all a primer that doesnt adhere well to bare plastic is just a standard ,fairly translucent ,white paint and ive got plenty of that !
Anyhow , i got the strip masked and yellow was applied to the tail area , and at the other end a bright orange on the nose. Once cured these will be masked off and the rest of the airframe is going to be silver , not decided yet if im going to black undercoat or just leave the white .

[Andy T]

I tried stynylrez once and was very disappointed given the hype it had received. It was the white though so maybe I should give their black a chance.

[yak face]

I tried stynylrez once and was very disappointed given the hype it had received. It was the white though so maybe I should give their black a chance.

Me too andy , it just wasnt sticking to the plastic , it looked great after spraying but the slightest touch and it was coming off .
I rubbed a bit near the wingroot and it started peeling off so i either had to completely strip it or try and consolidate it a bit so hopefully the overcoat of Halfords white will have toughened it up .
If I had tried masking on the original coat it would have just pulled off back to the plastic on removal . To be honest its made me a bit wary of using the black too .
Edit - thinking about it the only other time i used the white was on the t34 mentor , and I had already primed that with Halfords grey before the white - so that explains why I didnt have any problems with that one . But if youve got to apply a primer before you apply a primer then thats just pointless !

[Jim R]

Looking good Tony. Strange about the Stynylrez, I like it but I've only used the black and the grey. I think I'll give the white a miss. Nice fix with the wings and also getting the dihedral (is that the right word?) correct.
I have just started a KP Israeli Spitfire and I noticed the total lack of location tabs. I hope I can tame it as well as you're doing with this.

[stillp]

Poor adhesion was one of the problems I had with white Stynylrez.
Pete

[yak face]

Looking good Tony. Strange about the Stynylrez, I like it but I've only used the black and the grey. I think I'll give the white a miss. Nice fix with the wings and also getting the dihedral (is that the right word?) correct.
I have just started a KP Israeli Spitfire and I noticed the total lack of location tabs. I hope I can tame it as well as you're doing with this.

Cheers jim , a lot of the new KP releases are reboxes of AZ or Valom kits . Good kits but quite limited run in their make up , hence the lack of locating pins etc . Just means it gives the old modelling skills a workout , cheers tony

[yak face]

Poor adhesion was one of the problems I had with white Stynylrez.
Pete

One of the main reasons I prime pete is because the top coats stick better than if it was bare plastic , so if the primer doesnt stick then it defeats the object ! Of course this is mainly a thing with water based acrylics . Cheers tony

[yak face]

Update , - dont throw away all your white stynlrez !!! It wasnt UMP/ Stynlrez i used , it was Vallejo acrylic polyurethane primer.
This explains why ive never had a problem with the black ( which IS stynlrez) !

[Jim R]

Update , - dont throw away all your white stynlrez !!! It wasnt UMP/ Stynlrez i used , it was Vallejo acrylic polyurethane primer.

Problem solved. Vallejo primer is horrible stuff in my opinion. Peels off like a rubber skin.

[Andy T]

it was Vallejo acrylic polyurethane primer.

I've got 3 bottles of that in the back of a drawer (black, white & grey) that may never see the light of day again...

[yak face]

After masking off the tail and nose the silver was sprayed on - vallejo metal color. While handling one of the tails broke so this had to be repaired after the masking came off . Next a clear coat ,then decals .