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Hi everyone! My name is Alberto, I was born in 1973 and I write from Italy. I am an enthusiast of car model kits in 1/24 scale. After a pause of about 15 years, in 2011 I resumed my hobby, purchasing a second airbrush (Veda WD-138) and a new 24 liter oilless air compressor (ABAC OM195/24). My first airbrush, a Badger 200 bottom feed, has the defect of building up paint in the spray regulator, ruining the paintjobs afterwards with very big drops of paint. The desire to resume my hobby came also because on many modeler forums I read that paint can be stripped from car models made of plastic or metal by dipping them in all purpose cleaner. It works even better than brake fluid and it absolutely does not damage parts made of plastic or rubber. In at least a week it removes even the last molecule of paint, even if very old, and with an old toothbrush the paint chips come away very easily. Here below you can see my first finished jobs. They substantially are restorations. I have still to make about 30 car model kits, all in plastic, produced by Fujimi, Hasegawa, Italeri and Tamiya. Among them there are also 3 Italeri trucks. Tamiya is my favorite brand. I hope to share with you my rediscovered passion! I dont't hide you that it boosts me a lot to know that paint can be endlessly stripped from badly painted parts!











Instead here below you can see a car model finished by me in 1992. It is a Ferrari 288 GTO produced by Italeri in 1/24 scale.





Badger 200:


Badger 200, new head and old head:


Badger 350 and Paasche H:


Veda WD-138: