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Originally Posted by Colin
Wonderful transformation Howard, really lovely! The fresh paint sets it off beautifully, did you prepare the bakelite in any way prior to applying the paint?
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Hello Colin,
The bakelite around the front was cleaned with white spirit to remove any Nitromors and greasy finger marks and then wiped dry with a paper towel. Plasti-kote adheres to bakelite very well, indeed it's quite hard work getting any overspray off. It's essential to use Tamiya masking tape which is not paper based and it's flexible so will go around curved edges without wrinkling and afterwards comes off clean leaving no sticky residue. The tricky bits are the rounded corners, there I use several short pieces of tape. It is very expensive though and is only available from model shops.
Howard
