Boieng F/A-18F Super Hornet

Cuajete
Following.

Łukasz Gliński
Me 2 - mine is still waiting in the queue

Ekki
I'm in as well.

Steven Van Dyck
The varnish also contains thinner, this reacted with the enamel base paint. Use an acrylic varnish to separate the base layer and the topcoat. I use P+ from Pledge to prepare for decals, it's acrylic and very diluted.

Łukasz Gliński
Really sad news, hope you can rescue it, fingers crossed

Ferenc Sarka Författare
Thank you for your advice Steven, i will try acrilyc next time. I try remove the painting, but am not optimistic. I have to clear all the panel lines. Maybe i buy another kit. The price of two bottle paint remover nearly the same as a new kit.

Steven Van Dyck
But hadn't you installed the PE parts yet? Can't you retrieve the fuselage?

Christian Mundt
Did this only happen at the elevators? Then maybe you could try to remove the elevators and strip the paint with oven cleaner spray?

Ferenc Sarka Författare
Steven and Christian, unfortunatelly not only at the elevators. The under side of the wings and the fuselage too. I will try how works the oven cleaner. Thanks for your advice.

Patrick Hagelstein
Hang in there!!! 👍

Ferenc Sarka Författare
The acrilyc varnish is working. Thanks for the advise Mates.

Steven Van Dyck
Good to hear it works!

John Thomas
Nice work

Cuajete
Good progress, John 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Respect mate for that cleaning effort, I didn;t have a courage (yet) to wash the complete model this way 👍

Tom Beighley
Great result! I don't see the repairs in the finished model at all.

Cuajete
Well done. Congrats!

Ferenc Sarka Författare
Thanks for every one. I am fan of Jolly Rogers since the movie Final Countdown. I plan to build the F-4 version too. Happy modelling

Patrick Hagelstein
Great job Ferenc! 👍 That is true perseverance cleaning that model! 👍

Bernd Grün
Very nice build and repair, Ferenc. Congratulation!!!

Richard Cheals
Wow, what a saga! In the end you recovered the situation and achieved a very nice clean Stinger, Congratulations! 👍👏👏

Cuajete
Very nice. Congrats!

Ferenc Sarka Författare
Thank You for the grats. It was terrible when i started to remove the paint from the kit. The mates from this site helpd me to solve the problem. Huh it was 4 years ago....time goes fast.

Steven Van Dyck
Yeah, I also had to go and look back what it was I had commented on here. But glad the model was saved!