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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48149

goldfish999 Topic Author Offline Awesome! Posts: 571 Likes received: 248	Slowly getting there Heat did the trick as you suggested Flo It’s about as straight as I can get it now, had to improvise a bit with the steering wheel and gear stick Attachments: The following user(s) Liked this: Purple_rob
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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48150

Purple_rob Offline Devilsome! Posts: 362 Likes received: 210	Nice improvisation, its looking better mate.
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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48151

stingray-63 Away Moderator Posts: 14524 Likes received: 5356	Nice work Alan, For the steering wheel, I used an antenna pipe heatedand formed. Like you did I see. rcmodelstory.over-blog.com/
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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48167

goldfish999 Topic Author Offline Awesome! Posts: 571 Likes received: 248	So I thought I’d best just make sure it looks ok inside the body shell, and that’s when I realised the PO had sanded up the windows because he had it on a kyosho hi rider vette chassis Attachments:
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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48169

waterbok Offline Get Rough! Posts: 3499 Likes received: 1167	Ohboy that will be hard to polish out, maybe first a layer of clear lexan paint to fill the scratches and than polish? The following user(s) Liked this: stingray-63
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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48170

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waterbok wrote:
Ohboy that will be hard to polish out, maybe first a layer of clear lexan paint to fill the scratches and than polish?

I’m going to be posting results soon WB, 5 hours in and I recon an hour to go
Stage 1 1000 grit wet and dry
2 1500 grit wet and dry
3 3.75 micron rubbing paste (cerium oxide)
4 Jewellers rouge paste
Halfway through stage 4 and it’s looking ok:y:
The things we do to save original

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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48175

stingray-63 Away Moderator Posts: 14524 Likes received: 5356	A very nice work Alan. rcmodelstory.over-blog.com/
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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48180

goldfish999 Topic Author Offline Awesome! Posts: 571 Likes received: 248	Well six hours and an aching elbow later I’m quite happy with the results, not perfect by any means, but the transformation is more than I hoped for Attachments:
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Oh dear 6 years 2 months ago #48182

stingray-63 Away Moderator Posts: 14524 Likes received: 5356	Really awesome rcmodelstory.over-blog.com/
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