NZEOD Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) Experimenting with gold tinting canopies last night and I made a mistake... ...kind of funny, kind of stupid, kind of moronic even... yeah a mistake. I wanted to remove the tint to redo and as I was using ALCLAD II Laquers it dried fast and hard. So after trying to get it off with testors thinners and airbrush cleaner I had an idea... a stupid one looking back. I dropped the canopy into some Tamiya Thinners... Came back later to get it and... ...its gone. More accurately its no longer a solid and has 100% dissolved into solution! SO... is it possible to source replacement VF-1D canopies? Yeah... thats the worse part... its a rare 2 seater! You'd think a qualified Bomb Tech would know better... you'd think... Edited December 7, 2015 by NZEOD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincemoto7 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) Check here... http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=40715 Edited December 7, 2015 by vincemoto7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vi-RS Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 So technically you still have the canopy but in liquid form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigolosi Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) I have a friend who was able to get parts for some Hasegawa kits when he discovered them missing from the kits. Also if you want to tint a canopy, try adding the color to some Future floor wax when you go to dip your canopy's.My buddy tried it with F-16 canopies especially since the newer tinting has a green hue to it. I messaged him to find out how well it worked. He tried this a while back. Edited December 8, 2015 by grigolosi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZEOD Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 I've sorted getting the part. Thanks all. Was messing round with the tinting as I have already tried a version of the tinted Future method with great success. I used a mix of yellow and red food grade colouring and a few drops of Modelmaster Gold Acryl in a bottle of Future to tint a canopy in the Gold F16 HARM style. Worked really well. I assumed I'd be able to do even better with the Alclad 2 Tint... I was wrong. So technically you still have the canopy but in liquid form. yeah... I guess if I had a mold I could poor the Thinners in and hope it evaporated to leave a nice shiny new canopy but... .. well you got to have dreams I guess. It makes for a great magic trick though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigolosi Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Just for future info here a link for Hasegawa. This should help anyone else who may need replacement parts. Http:/hasegawausa.com/techsupport html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jefuemon Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 (edited) Just for future info here a link for Hasegawa. This should help anyone else who may need replacement parts. Http:/hasegawausa.com/techsupport html Won't work for the Macross kits. They're only available in Japan, so spare parts would have to come from there. [edited for improper word usage] Edited December 30, 2015 by Jefuemon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodman Models Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I have a spare canopy you can have...msg me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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