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Nice job on the cables. I did a similar thing using spare Taigen copper cables on my tamiya Jagdpanther which are much easier to shape than the Tiger's but I couldn't find a way to get the primer/paint to stick for any length of time without the copper coming through so I ended up getting some iirc Schumo wires

I burnish mine with a bbq lighter or candle flame the apply German grey undiluted. Then a wash over that once dry
They take a lot of paint but it works

I hit my cables with some Mr. Surfacer 1500 before painting and then the paint sticks pretty well. The heating of the cables to burn off any oils also helps before priming.

HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:22 am I burnish mine with a bbq lighter or candle flame the apply German grey undiluted. Then a wash over that once dry
They take a lot of paint but it works

I can just see all my neat plastic work melting.

Clean with sugar soap, then my favourite automotive etch primer.

Did anyone else have to look up sugar soap?

Oil free and etching primer seems to work well for me as well. I tend to use etching primer on my first coat on the entire model as my first coat.

Me...I had to look up "Sugar Soap": trisodium phosphate, TSP. Thanks for the tip, Meter rat. I am going to put some in my Damazon shopping list, so thanks for the tip. Some TSP and some Oban---Oh Boy!
That Citroen "Snail" is just my kind of vehicle: small, practical, noisy, underpowered, nothing automatic... Of course, a classic sports car, say a Triumph or an MG, does not suit "practical," but I could live with it. Alas, my multi-vehicle days are over. I could tell a long story about that.

Herr Dr. Professor wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:47 pm That Citroen "Snail" is just my kind of vehicle: small, practical, noisy, underpowered, nothing automatic...

Small, and underpowered you, say. There’s more to the wee blue beast than meets the eye. Let’s just say it surprises some bigger cars, in the outside lane of the motorway. Either if they are behind or, when you come up behind them.

Meter rat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:13 pm Small, and underpowered you, say. There’s more to the wee blue beast than meets the eye. Let’s just say it surprises some bigger cars, in the outside lane of the motorway. Either if they are behind or, when you come up behind them.

Engine swap? Forced induction? Big rubber band? Larger rodent on the tread mill?

Ecam wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:19 pm Engine swap? Forced induction? Big rubber band? Larger rodent on the tread mill?

It ain’t a 602cc twin pot no more. Under the bonnet [hood] for those who drive on the wrong side of the road, is a 1200cc BMW motor bike engine. 120hp in 560kg can make for interesting motion.

That sounds fun! I had a Triumph TR8 in the early eighties (I think they were over there too with the wheel on the wrong side). 3.5 Rover engine (although we knew it as the old Buick 215 aluminum V8), and it surprised many of the similar powered muscle cars of the same era. Tons of underpowered TR7s that everyone was familiar with the not too powerful 4 cyl that most people assumed it was. It was the only car I've been in that the seat wasn't all the way back (6'2"/243cm).