JSmails

I hate to say, knowing everything I do now, but it is a Rubies TK Supreme that I'm trying HARD to make it look somewhat movie accurate. A button box is probably my best bet at this juncture. if i can get the bondo off, I may be able to use my button plate without painting. If not, a button plate covering the area would work best. If you want to part with it, I'd be more than interested and greatful!

Thanks for your reply! From my reading, the only armor that comes with the botton box separate is AP. Anyone want to PM me AP's details to see if he'll pull this or me? From what I understand though, he usually doesn't part out. I do a lot of reading here. Oh man, if I could get rid of the red bondo, at least I'd be back to square 1 and it really wouldn't look half-bad. Anyone know how to remove bondo from plastic? I have seen a Utube video with a guy removing paint from models with SuperClean. I am going to try that right now. Any help is appreciated.

Hello, I am doing an ROTJ mod a la Bernard. What a great tutorial. Now this is going to sound completely dumb, and looking back, it really is. I only know I need more sleep. I am in the process of flipping the chest buttons from ANH to ROTJ. I get them cut out and carve about and dremel in order to get a good fit. But there are some smaller gaps in spots. So I superglue the button-piece in place so I can better work around it. Then out of nowhere, I decide to bondo around the button piece to fill the gaps. There is some give to the buttons, as it was only superglued, and there was some cracking in the bondo. No idea why I decided to use bondo instead of decorators caulk. The caulk would fill that just fine I am guessing. On top of that, I just had to use my new "squeeze-tube" bondo I bought, and it turns out it is RED! I figure that's okay, because I'll just primer over it anyway when I paint the button-box. BUT I WAS NEVER PLANNING ON PAINTING THE BUTTON BOX! It became a necessity after using RED-f-ing-BONDO. Anyway, I am the worst bondo-user on the planet, and it is smeared about. I have sanded it pretty well, and if it were WHITE bondo, it would hardly be noticable. But no. It is red bondo. The only good thing to come of this is that now when the ab-button-box is removed the bondo has formed under it so it is a perfect fit to go back in. I can't even put it back in ANH-style. I figure I can now use the decorators caulk to put the button box in place. THEN I'll need to prime and paint the entire piece as I haven't found a color yet to match the rest of the piece by just painting over the bondo'd area. So if I paint the entire piece, at least it'll be uniform. Really sorry for the length of this post. So if you had to paint an entire piece, perhaps an ab-plate for instance , how would you do it? Some sort of flexible primer of some sort? What color for the main outer coat? Any sealant or anything? I know folks paint their MR CE's all the time, which is next for me (yikes), but those don't usually "flex" like an ab-plate will. I have put up a WTB in the For Sale section. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Smarmy comments about the fix I'm in will be tolerated, but not appreciated. Thanks.