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Old 03-21-2015, 09:14 PM
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Rene - nice fill work.

Travis taught me to take a seperately bottle of our styrene glue and put little pieces of styrene in it from our cutting and carvings. The pieces disolve and add filler to the glue. Helps fill moderate gaps.
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Rene - nice fill work.

Travis taught me to take a seperately bottle of our styrene glue and put little pieces of styrene in it from our cutting and carvings. The pieces disolve and add filler to the glue. Helps fill moderate gaps.

Thank you Izzy, as mentioned above, it pretty much my first real attempt with styrene, I got an old bottle of glue where the tube is broken, I'll try to put some of the shavings in it
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Got a little more work done last night, cut a new frame stretched 6 centimeters or 2.1/4 inch, fitted aluminium rear axles, and a true scale dropped front axle.

first pic it got the tamiya front axle, and second one is the true scale dropped front axle














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Thank you Izzy, as mentioned above, it pretty much my first real attempt with styrene, I got an old bottle of glue where the tube is broken, I'll try to put some of the shavings in it
I have had great success using the same principle with a great solvent glue call MEK sold through a lot of Model Railway shops and the Hobby Shops that full on just Hobby not with toys stocks...
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