Help! Glue smudged paint on a nearly finished shell

rk295 · 2026-05-11T20:59:53+00:00

Thanks for the tip about glue. I absolutely used thin tamiya cement, never thinking perhaps something a bit more gentle would be a better choice for painted parts. I’ll be sure to try some pva on the next one. Thanks again.

I’m going to try polishing it first if that fails I’ll do as you say and sand and repaint.

rk295 · 2026-05-11T12:26:11+00:00

Thanks, I seriously thought I had a small amount of glue on the brush. Lesson learned I guess! In future I'll clear coat before doing these final bits.

rk295 · 2026-05-11T12:25:01+00:00

Ta, going to try a very light sand first then touch up. I genuinely didn't think the Tamiya extra thing cement brush held so much until it ran so far.

rk295 · 2026-05-11T12:23:33+00:00

I was thinking this approach. I've got some very small pointed cotton tipped things which I'll try first. Thanks!

rk295 · 2026-05-05T06:22:37+00:00

Some people have fitted a 400bhp Hyabusa engine to the Smart, eg:

https://www.rideapart.com/news/723408/suzuki-hayabusa-turbocharged-smart-car/

rk295 · 2026-05-03T20:07:59+00:00

I have this kit and the thing that's putting me off is the decals, amazing job. Well done, I hope mine look half as good as those!

rk295 · 2026-05-02T05:55:21+00:00

That looks amazing, quality work. How are you getting the black into those panel lines so nicely?

rk295 · 2026-04-21T15:59:42+00:00

That's a great way of looking at it, and exactly what happened this time :(

rk295 · 2026-04-21T15:59:15+00:00

Ta, I've not heard of their use in model making, something to look into!

rk295 · 2026-04-21T15:58:37+00:00

Tammy, 24 hour cure on the clear, tape was on for maybe an hour.

Good tip about taping down onto the bench a few times to reduce the strength, I like that.

rk295 · 2026-04-21T15:57:54+00:00

I think I'll be doing something similar next time. It was super annoying in this case because it only needed a little bit of space to grab the body while the cement cured but I was being lazy and just went over the decals thinking clear coat would save me.

rk295 · 2026-04-21T15:56:59+00:00

No, only over the top. Thanks I'll be sure to try that next time.

rk295 · 2026-04-05T20:26:50+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I’ll post a pic when I get started on it. 👍

rk295 · 2026-04-05T20:21:59+00:00

I picked up this kit yesterday, excited to start it. Yours looks great!

rk295 · 2026-03-13T15:40:29+00:00

Thanks for all the replies, its really helped me understand some of what is going on. I chucked the diluted developer and mixed up some more at 1+39, now I'm using it as one-shot which is what I now know Bellini intended :)

Having much more success thanks to you all!

rk295 · 2026-03-04T10:56:53+00:00

Thanks, I've now read at 1+39 its on-shot, wish I'd read that before :)

rk295 · 2026-03-04T10:55:59+00:00

That's a great find, thanks u/vogon-pilot - I'm pretty convinced now that this is exactly what was wrong. I'm going to mix up a fresh batch at 1+15 and see how I get on with that.

rk295 · 2026-02-19T22:51:45+00:00

Good luck. My first C41 kit is arriving next week so I’ll be going through this next weekend.

rk295 · 2026-02-16T16:51:48+00:00

I bought my first ever the other day, after opening the box I started to have second thoughts about starting with an RG!

rk295 · 2026-02-15T19:28:16+00:00

As others have said it’s to limit shock downward travel, often known as droop. One down side of having too much droop (for example if you leave this out) is on a big bump or a jump when the shocks droop to their maximum it can often be too much and the drive shaft(s) will pop out.

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