US Navy seals - No victory without pain - page 4

[Tankbuilder]

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Hi,

So I'm back after a difficult period and in that time my computer decided not to start again so I had to buy a new one and finally everything is running and I have time to sit at the workbench.

With this project something went wrong. The water I put on was Vallejo Still Water, I had worked before with this product and that was no problem but with the figures fit on the base and the first layer of Still Water some strange process started and destroyed the resin figures. I felt very sad because I was very proud about the painting and the figures are not cheap.
I have cleaned the bases but the figures are not ok anymore and I have put them away and I will ask a club member if he can help out sometime.
Thanks for all your interest and nice comments.
Johanna

Shalom Johanna.

That is a real shame especially after so much work invested in the figures.

I'm wondering if either Vallejo or the resin in the figures was changed since last you worked with the Vallejo water stuff. I say that because it sounds as though the water was a polyester type resin and the figures were a plastic type resin. Curing polyester rsin can get fairly hot (literally hot) and the melting is exactly what I'd expect to appen with the figures. This is quite common with styrene figures and polyester resin if the styrene is not well sealed with a protective coating before contacting the polyester. I have a hunch that the culprit is a change in the formulation of the Vallejo product you used.

Good luck salvaging as much as you can.

Cheers from Peter

 

[Jogy]

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Shalom Peter,

Thanks for your comment.
The resin figures changed and also the paint on the figures. I had them painted with Vallejo Model Color paints and the figures had dried for more then a week, so you would expected that the paint had cured. The resin is soft and I don't know more about the kind of resin what is used. What you tell is what some other people told me and it also possible that Still Water was older then I thought and there is a possibility that the product had changed, but for a next time I will not use it again.
Grtz Johanna

 

[Bagge]

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So sorry to hear this Johanna hope you can save the figures for some other dio. i remember when i first tried to make water on a dio, with polyester... can i say more than that the DUKW melted but that was 25+ years ago so i have gotten over it now
//Mats

 

[Jogy]

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Hi Mats,

I hope that I don't need 25 years After it went wrong I have saved the parts that were ok, like the base and the figures. I will try a other base with water and if that works with the resin from the figures then I can save most of them and hide the destroyed parts. But that will be for later, now I'm busy with some other projects and I will show some of that later.

Thanks, Johanna

 

[Jogy]

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Hello,

A new start with this project and also with some other figures. The jungle diorama is also suitable for a Vietnam environment and I had three Bravo 6 boxes in stash with 6 figures and they will be the new stars in this ongoing story
Let my introduce the new stars:

I have to make some changes to the base and restore the part where the water was, but this project is back on the bench so I hope that this time I can finish this.
Johanna

 

[moon puppy]

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Never give up, never surrender

 

[reconron]

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That's interesting Johanna!

Looking forward to the next steps.



Greetings,Ron.

 

[pokuna]

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What a shame that things didn't work out , a real bummer,and bloody frustrating aim sure figures were looking wonderful and the ground work was great,.well done keeping positive and thinking of the next project .
I had a recent disaster stored away my kit when i moved in garage,a 120 scale Maurice Corry figure well into completion it would appear a mouse decided resin would be a nice meal and chewed its bloody head off .
I was like a man possessed,decided it was all out war on the mouse population , claymore mines set up pungi sticks ,lol ......I was like Lee Evans in that film mouse hunt lol.................well bought some mouse traps really .
I now keep the figure on my modelling desk as a reminder of of my storage casualty
Keep the faith brother

Regards Chris

 

[Bagge]

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That's some nice figures Johanna! looking forward to see the new angle of this project!
//Mats

 

[AndyFettes]

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Carry on Jogy

 

[Jogy]

Thanks all for the nice words. I'm trying to paint the figures, everyday a little part and I hope to finish them behore end of the year, so thing a going on but slow.