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Picked this up today to soak all my resin parts in. Hopefully this will prevent paint not adhering to the parts on down the road.

Thank you for the picture, I have an engine cleaner so I'll try it too.

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All parts de-greased and washed with Dawn dish washing soap.

....Pinky Space Crabs, Cat's Eyes and baby back ribs. It's what's for dinner!

There was a moment of panic when I saw the pan full of reddish meat-looking substance and thought there were model parts in there somewhere. O_o If so, you're doing it wrong... =P Oh, ribs? Whew. I stand corrected; you're doing it RIGHT! ;)

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i think you need to bake it and then eat it. at least the stuff on the left. Yum!!

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LOL! I only soaked the parts for like 10 minutes in that degreaser,....I wonder if I should have waited longer or like overnight???? Thoughts??

IMO the best time to thoroughly clean the parts is right before painting, i.e. after you removed all the pouring stubs and seam lines, and have put a lot of finger grease all over them again.

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LOL! I only soaked the parts for like 10 minutes in that degreaser,....I wonder if I should have waited longer or like overnight???? Thoughts??

Washing parts in dishsoap & water right before painting is all that's really necessary, I use a paint-friendly mold release. I'd be reticent to use any kind of harsh solvent on the resin for fear of damaging the surface.

dkev: message received and I'll send you the missing parts, no sweat!

Resin ordered, and I'll be contacting the members interested in more kits via PM.

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I'm a bit confused by part #15. As in how much I'm supposed to whittle it down in order to make it fit on the back??? of the leg??? Or do i need to cut out the back of the leg and replace it with that part? HELP! :wacko::unsure:

Just looking at the instructions it looks like it goes on the bottom of the "feet" between the front and rear talon parts.

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Love this kit! Thank you Captain. The cannon alignment is proving to be a challenge for my meager skills but a good learning experience. It's going to look good next to my Eager.

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The canon alignment is.....yeeees.....proving tricky indeed!!

Take your time with it, you're better off Dremeling a very small amount of material at any one time than removing too much and damaging the part. Once you get the parts oriented to your liking, you can set the pegs in place with 5 minute epoxy.

2 kits left up for grabs, all the others are now spoken for.

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I was waiting to post this to avoid and perceived c-blocking but I'm selling one of my two Crabs.

I got two just to get to project going from the first batch and now that there can be no more from The Man (I hope, or I'm going to look like an *******), it's time.

It'll be up in the sale thread in the appropriate section. Thanks.

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Weeeell....today's canon mounting project didn't go as well as I'd hoped...I won't bore you all with the details, but this step IS NOT EASY. My cannons won't be straight on this one..oh well...not like they were always perfect in the show! Hopefully primer tomorrow weather permitting.

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