- Gunze Mr. Surfacer
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- Posted By: Dan Salamone <dano@rust.net>
- Date: Saturday, 31 October 1998, at 7:47 a.m.
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- Hello all,
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- I was planning on buying some Mr. Surfacer from HLJ or Rainbow 10 soon,
and cannot find where I had heard about using it, be it here, on RMS or
elsewhere. Does anybody here have experience using it to help fill small
blemishes, if so do you use Mr. Surfacer 500 or 1,000, and is it able to be
thinned? Thanks in advance!
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- Dan
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- Re: Gunze Mr. Surfacer
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- Posted By: Hiroyuki Takeuchi
- Date: Sunday, 1 November 1998, at 5:10 a.m.
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- In Response To: Gunze Mr. Surfacer (Dan Salamone)
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- The one that comes in a bottle can be thinned with Gunze Mr. Thinner. I
personally use the 500 for small corrections. I used to use 1000 as an
overall primer, but I now use the 1200 aerosol can which provides a very
smooth velvety finish you can directly spray semigloss paint over. Of
course, a light polishing will be needed for NMF or gloss finish.
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- Re: Gunze Mr. Surfacer
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- Posted By: Mike Quan <MnkQuan@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sunday, 1 November 1998, at 7:34 a.m.
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- In Response To: Gunze Mr. Surfacer (Dan Salamone)
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- Dan, I have been using Mr. Surfacer 1000 for a while now and have found it
to be a wonderful tool. I use it as an follow-up to normal putty work to
fill in those occasional little pits or cracks in the putty following
sanding. It is a quick and easy alternative to re-puttying because of it's
faster drying time. My only recommendations to you is that since this
product (probably) contains talc or like-ingredient, you may want to
consider dedicating a specific brush and thinner wash bottle for cleaning to
avoid contamination of regular paints. I use this procedure to separate my
metallic and non-metallic paints and it works for me.
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- Re: Gunze Mr. Surfacer
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- Posted By: Pete Chalmers <pchalmer@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Friday, 6 November 1998, at 8:50 a.m.
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- In Response To: Gunze Mr. Surfacer (Dan Salamone)
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- Dan,
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- Here's a "Snip" from a reply to RMS. The part nos. are for the
40 ml square bottles with the blue tops.
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- > SF-282 Mr.Surfacer 500
- > SF-281 Mr.Surfacer 1000
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- > Shake the bottle well (1 minute plus) , unscrew cap and place upside
- > down on the neck of the bottle. Inside the cap is a tiny
hemispherical
- > well, which holds a few brushfulls. Apply to small cracks / seams /
- > "divots" or gouges using a 3/0 , 5/0, 7/0, or 10/0,
"spotter" artist's
- > brush. Will dry in less than 1 minute - continue to apply until
you've
- > filled sufficiently - it's like a thick paint or thin primer/surfacer.
- > Wait overnight before sanding to allow to shrink/cure completely,
then
- > sand with manicure board, fine wet-dry emery paper, or 3M softback
- > sanding sponge.
- >
- > Clean brushes or thin with lacquer thinner or denatured alcohol.
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- You can also "wet" remove on delicate areas using a Q-Tip wet
with denatured alcohol (carefully - you can soften the MS very easily)- this
is the reducer used in MS and will NOT hurt styrene. You can thus use MS to
"Blend" a transparency into an opaque section or to fill that
pesky wing root seam.
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- Re: Gunze Mr. Surfacer
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- Posted By: Dan Salamone <dano@rust.net>
- Date: Friday, 6 November 1998, at 2:44 p.m.
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- In Response To: Re: Gunze Mr. Surfacer (Pete Chalmers)
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- Hi Pete,
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- That was the post I had remembered, could not find it on Deja News. Thanks
for finding it and posting it here!
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- BTW, on a decidedly non Japanese aircraft topic I have started the AM
Yak-1 with skis and love it, just bought the blue for the undersurfaces
today...
- I'm waiting for the AJ Press Yak book to get here so I can do this kit
justice with the details. Thanks for the past tips on the books as well
Pete, take care!
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- Dan