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Sink Holes
straightedge
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004 - 11:22 AM UTC
I was looking back at Vodnik M 923A1 and how he had sink holes on the leaf springs on his model made by Italeri, and I just got my Marder 3 in the mail today, and I was going over the parts and I noticed it had bad sink marks on its leaf springs to, also made by Italeri. Has anybody else have this problem with Italeri, that does all their models have sink holes on the leaf springs? Thank You for your time. Straightedge
animal
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004 - 12:03 PM UTC
I have found that most of the Italeri models with leaf springs have some sink holes. I try to fill in the worst ones and the ones that I can't will be hidden with my weathering process.
generalzod
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004 - 12:24 PM UTC
Try using whiteout The stuff used for correcting typos I use that stuff for the sinkholes on the Italeri Sherman hub sprocket that has an ejector pin marking
straightedge
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004 - 12:42 PM UTC
Thank you guys and general zod can you scribe the lines back in it after it dries or should you try to do that while it is still pliable on the white out, cause I just happen to have some handy here.
generalzod
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004 - 12:45 PM UTC
I would say after it dries Or use a real small brush to get into just the sinkhole area
straightedge
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004 - 12:47 PM UTC
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I would say after it dries Or use a real small brush to get into just the sinkhole area
Should I fill it all at once or layer it
generalzod
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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004 - 01:05 PM UTC
Layer it I would say Guess it depends on how deep it is