Reading GP30 project

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Just a quick update just to say this thread isn't dead. This will probably be a slow build until I get a couple of other projects complete. But here's where I'm at with it now.

When I stripped the paint off the shells I didn't notice that the residue paint had pooled in the steps of the shell. Some were worse then others.


When I first noticed the paint that pooled, I tried dipping the shell in the Scalecoat wash away again but found that it had made the plastic of the shell brittle causing it to crack.


I'm going to try and do a repair job on this crack before I look around for a new shell.

And here is one I've repaired already.


Since I discovered the wash away was making the plastic brittle(probably because there was no paint left on shell to protect the plastic during removal), I've only applied it now with a micro paintbrush to the pooled area with better success. Needed a little help with an X-acto knife too, to scrape the paint off.