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The difference is with TS rattle cans, there's less control over the thickness of the paint coat. You end up with a heavy coat of very hot solvent based lacquer clear coat. When airbrushing something like the GX products, the paint layer is much thinner and dries quicker, resulting in less time to melt the base paint layer underneath.

+1 for Mr. Color GX clears Their clear coats are far superior to anything else. The flats are dead flat if thinned with Mr. Color Rapid thinner. I have no issues using them over other Mr Color and MRP lacquers, Mig and Tamiya acrylics, and old school model master enamels. I would also point out that I also like how the MRP lacquer clears go on. However, I've run into some issues when weathering with artist oils. The MRP clear gloss lacquer has a tendency to stain when artist oils are used on them. I had two near disasters on builds before I realized it was the MRP

Looking for this sheet, shoot me a PM if you have one to sell.

Their website says they are shutting down ordering for the USA while they upgrade their system to collect the tariffs.

Email sent concerning the set I received from the first batch of 10. I promise it's not angry.

So I've always found the Alclad Aqua Gloss clear to be an over-rated clear coat. It doesn't dry very hard and like you experienced, it doesn't do a good job of protecting anything from a wash. I have a large stock of Testors Acryl clear gloss that I use for coating over Alclad to protect it from hot lacquer clear coats like Mr. Color. It's also worth noting that the Ammo washes....well....suck. They are enamel based paints just thinned down to appear to be washes. They are not based on the traditional artist oil paints. The pigmentation in them is very coarse. I drank the Amm

Anything that was part of the "old" Squadron company was sold at bankruptcy auction. I know the ebay seller "racershaven" ended up buying most of the masters and then raffled them off for charity in the Facebook selling group called "Scale Model Graveyard". I don't know the person who won them and have no idea if they ever made anything of them. If I recall, it was at least all the True Details masters and possibly some of the redone Blackbox sets that were sold under the Avionix line. Jeff Verswijvel started KMC and eventually Black box, before working for the original Squadron through th

Yeah, but you're not going to notice it when model master gunship gray yellows. It also depends on if you used testors glosscoat/dullcoat on the build. I didn't start using it until the mid 90's and I wish I hadn't. Everything white I used it on yellowed badly. Luckily, I switched to acrylic clear coats in the late 90's.

It depends on several factors. Some of my older builds look like they were finished yesterday, some look like they are 50 years old. Here's what I've noticed about my older builds that are 30+ years old: - Testors enamel based whites almost always develop some yellowing - Clear coating over decals helps them not age as badly - Tamiya paint holds up well at 35+ years - Humidity swings + dust = badly caked on dust that can be hard to remove from a model - Old Testors tube glue joints weaken with age - CA joints seem to hold up well and the seams don't reappear ove

I did eventually get my order around the 2nd week of March. It turns out the USPS package drop he was using wasn't being checked by USPS. Mike threw in a ton of extra items to make up for the original delay with Paypal payments not working for him. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt since it all worked out in the end. Not to mention, his products are actually quite good. His PW nozzle for the Kinetic Gold F-16 series is amazing and I'm looking forward to several builds using them. His F-16A early pylons are also excellent. Print quality is on par with Eduard or Reskit.

I live in Washington state and we've had to deal with this sale tax thing for about 10 years. While I understand that US based companies have no choice but to follow the law, I would be very suspect of a foreign company collecting state sales tax. I wouldn't count on those tax payments actually making it to the state coffers. If a transaction is through Ebay, then the money is probably going to make it to where it needs to go since they were forced to collect it for sellers several years back. As a side note, I had an EU based model company try to charge me EU VAT.

Kit has been found!

This is shaping up to be a very complete update set! I'm not sure if you have finalized your support layout, but some of the parts have defects that would indicate inadequate supports. The launch rails and some of the afterburner parts have a wavy finish to them. It looks like they are moving around quite a bit during the printing process.

This kit seems to continue to elude me. PM me if you have one to sell or trade.

PM sent

OK, got it, email sent. Edit: Forgot to mention the Pave Tack set arrived in perfect shape with no breakages. The packaging was bulletproof.

Question about combined shipping. I placed three separate orders for three different update sets (one Pave Tack pod, two standard F-16 upgrade sets, and two WAR HUD upgrade sets) I got ship notifications for all three resin orders w/ one tracking number. One package arrived with just the Pave Tack pod set in it, so it looks like maybe the F-16 sets got missed? Or are you shipping everything separately? I also got a ship notification and tracking number for the decals I ordered. I'm assuming the F-16 sets won't be packaged with the decals.

Did you ever receive your order? Mike finally responded to me on 1/29, telling me he had issues with being evacuated for the wild fires. That sucks, no problem. Paypal had returned the payment by that point, but he had already packed the order. He directed me to re-submit the order using the regular CC payment option. I didn't really think anything of it since he came through on my last order. After re-submitting the order, crickets for another week or two. I had to ping him a couple times before he finally responded with a tracking number on 2/13, saying it woul

I use Mr Hobby GX clear coats. Thin with self leveling thinner. Flows out great, super glossy finish that is much tougher than Aqua Gloss. If any of the base colors are Alcad high shine, I clear those with either aqua gloss or model master acryl clear gloss. I bought a huge stock pile of acryl clear gloss, so I'm set for life at this point. Also worth noting, MRP acrylic lacquers can stain from weathering oils if not clear coated. I tried weathering without a clear coat with their paint and it nearly ended badly. Also, their clear finishes are nice, but artist oils

That WAR HUD frame looks great. I would love to see this and the non-WAR HUD IP released in the legacy non-CDU config. I have dozens of older schemes that I'd love to build with such a nice 3D printed part.

I eventually received my order from back in October, and then placed another order in late Dec. Several emails requesting a status and still nothing. His products are actually really good, which is why I decided to order more. But at this point, it might be safer to buy from one of his distributers like the48ers.com.

Any update on when the links will be enabled?

Even in 1/48, the details on the probe are very tiny. I'm going to use mine on a streak eagle build and that probe will be prepped and painted after the rest of the kit is already finished and on the shelf.

It's possible I got a bad kit. I had issues with the Kinetic Gold F-16C retooled kit and there were definitely manufacturing problems with my copy (confirmed by the owner on this forum). While there were across the board fit issues I encountered with the Academy kit, the major issues were the joints between the fuselage sections. The slide molded aft fuselage was far to narrow to match up to the nose section. There's a bulkhead piece used to join the two, and it fit fine into the tail but the nose halves were to wide. To solve this issue, I removed material from the top joint j

The Academy kit is none of those things, so yes the GWH kit is worth it. There's no amount of aftermarket upgrades that can fix all the issues the Academy kit has. Academy clearly rushed this kit out the door to beat GWH to market. The worst part of the Academy kit is the fit. The vast majority of the major fuselage assembly requires extensive fitment tweaking to achieve even a mediocre fit. The entire forward fuselage fit was off. It's too wide on the aft joint with the slide molded rear fuselage by ~0.5mm. Even the engine pod fit to the aft slide molded fuselage