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Pman,
I have this kit and it is my ultimate NEMESIS!! I've been working on it off and on for several years (obviously more off than on) and am really struggling. Most of my problems are with 'me', not the kit:
- I used a bunch of differnet crappy spray-can paints on the body and they didn't turn out very good. Trying to make something bad into good, I sprayed clear overtop hoping that would help. It didn't. In the end, I tried to polish the whole thing and ended up breaking the two windshield pillars, cracking the front fenders (very delicate area of the car), and cracking/breaking several other areas of the body).
- I tried to 'strip' the paint with just about every substance known to man and so far about 80% of the paint has come off. I've had this thing sitting in stripper for weeks at a time and it still has some stubborn parts that will NOT come off. It looks all 'patchy' now and obviously is not a very smooth surface to put another coat on. I've accepted that I'll have to 'sand' out all of the unwanted paint, but the body has so many fins and edges that this will NOT be a fun/easy job at all.
I don't know what to do. Either I push through and finish it the way you've finished yours, or I salvage the other kit parts and use them on other projects.
Murray
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