A very belated thanks, fellas! Hard to believe the last six months have gone so quickly, things have been so busy with work I just haven't had the time, energy or enthusiasm to really get anything hobby-related done. I spent some time this weekend trying to remember where the hell I was up to and piece together various disparate prints. At some point, maybe shortly before Christmas, I tried opening the engine deck louvres and did such a messy hack job that I decided to print a replacement engine deck instead. I then figured I'd replace the hull roof entirely, since the fuel and suspension hatch covers on the Taigen upper are the wrong shape and size and in the wrong locations. There's really very little of it left at this point, and I probably ended up using over fifty dollars' worth of resin so that I wouldn't waste a fifty dollar Taigen hull. The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at maths!
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I've got new mounting points for the rotation unit and Taigen mounting hooks, and there are stainless pins going through the Taigen hull into the reinforcing ribs.
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Kaczor wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 9:43 amCan you tell me what kind of clear resin you use? Does it not yellow over time?
I've been using Siraya Tech Simple for these; just really basic stuff. It gets a faint blue-grey tint from the alcohol wash, since it picks up some of the pigments/dye from the other resins I use. These prints are over six months old and haven't yellowed yet:
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I know that depending on the resin, leaving the parts in the sun for a few hours or heating them over 60°C can get some of the yellowing to fade.
