Eduard Lysander 1:48

[Ron Pearcy]

Hi all. I've just been bought an Eduard Lysander Profipack by my lovely wife. I've always wanted to build one since my youth. The kit has PE and resin parts and I would like a bit of advice regarding glueing,priming and painting of the parts etc. I've never tried to use these extras since my return to modelling so any help would be appreciated. Many thanks.

 

[fubar57]

You have a very nice wife Ron. Can't help you much with the extras as I rarely use them though with Eduards you shouldn't have any problems. Its a reboxing of the Gavia kit so check out some of those on-line builds as well

 

[Ron Pearcy]

Cheers mate.

 

[Crimea_River]

First of all, get yourself some CA (cyanoacrylate) glue as you will need it to glue both types of parts.

Painting, as always, depends on the type of paint you will use. My experience is based on using Tamiya acrylics

PE - if using acrylics, you will need to prime PE parts. I use a lacquer based primer for this but even when using primer I like to drag the PE part over sand paper first to give the paint a better chance to grip the very shiny PE. Not really possible with tiny parts.

Resin - be sure to wash the parts in soapy water and thoroughly rinse and dry them. I use an old toothbrush to clean the parts. These parts are often covered in a mould release oil that will cause your paint to flake off if not dealt with. Once dry, I have painted resin both with primer and without and found no real issues either way.

 

[Ron Pearcy]

Brilliant info. I feel reasonably confident. Thanks for your help.