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Evergreen Plastic?
MikeyBugs95
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 12:12 AM UTC
So does Evergreen Plastic react with plastic cement? I need to build a 1/144 P-47 cockpit...
PanzerKarl
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 01:02 AM UTC
No you will be fine.
1/144 cockpit you must have eyes as magnifying glasses
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 01:18 AM UTC
What do you mean? Evergreen is styrene plastic, so yes, styrene cements 'react' with it. As in melts it together to assemble things...
Testors liquid cement, Tamiya extra thin, MEK all work well with Evergreen. In 1:144 you'll want to use a fine brush though!

Jim
MikeyBugs95
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 01:55 AM UTC
Ok. Thanks. I didn't know it was styrene. Someone just brought it into the last IPMS meeting and I took some. Figured I could get some use out of it and now I'm scratching a cockpit... I also need to replace the gun barrels... Luckily I can do those out of copper wire!
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 02:02 AM UTC
Evergreen Styrene products (sheets, tubing, rods, beam shapes, etc.) are great to have on hand. When the Carpet Monster attacks, I reach for the Evergreen stash ... let the scratch-building begin!

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