Revell Contact Question

How is it marred? Scratches or mixed plastic from a previous shot (e.g. a silver or grey "cloud" in the plastic?

If it is just scratches, those can be buffed out and the entire fuselage side coated with Future to fix it.

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Hi there.

Forgive me because I can not give you contact info for a live body at Revell.

However I have thinned the canopy on 1/48 scale HobbyCraft CF-100s to less than a third of what they were by carefully sraping the inside of them with a hobby knife and then sanding them thinner and thinner with wet-dry paper. I then polished it with grits of hobby sanding film using ultra-fine grits of 8000 and 12000 available at good hobby shops.

I hope your problem is simply a scratched part and not a clouded part.

Good luck from Peter

I wonder if this is connected with their kits vanishing from Walmart?

Pat

You know, most people would have just pulled heated thin transparent plastic over the thing, but if you want to do it the hard way.... :-)

Pat

Thanks for your response.

It's a rather significant scrape on the inside of the fuselage, possibly caused when the part was ejected from the mold. I understand that there is a chance it can be salvaged by some aggressive sanding and polishing, but at my skill level there is no guarantee the rework won't be noticeable. And, I'm surely not going to be dipping such a large part into Future. I don't have a container large enough to do that, and my wife would murder me if I make a move towards something in the kitchen.

Also, in my mind, the part should have been usable out of the box. To add to this aggravation is the lack of response from a company that says they want to have happy customers.

Thanks,

David

sounds like a time for some added flak damage with the crew attending to the guy who caught a load of flak.. battle damage can fix all kinds of things like this.

Craig

All:

I can report that Revell finally sent the replacement part. Amazing!

Unfortunately, my comments about their crappy Web site and failure to return phone calls still stands.

David