Those are pattern parts painted to order rather than originals - I'll just keep an eye out.
To straighten the wing tips it was just lots of gentle hammering, and some initial work with pliers. The passenger side if I can get the paint right you're never going to be able to tell. Driver side looks ok from some angles, but there's some unevenness as you get to the tip where there was quite a deep irregular dent. It'll do, not bad for a first attempt
I'm having problems with the painting though - rattle can attempt was terrible, removed it all and started again. Also I didn't do a good enough job of sanding so there's a line where a whole layer of paint cracked away, you can tell when it catches the light - hopefully clearcoat will resolve that.
So we've been plagued with high wind and unpredicatable showers here for days - finally I got some decent weather today to put the basecoat on and ... gust of wind, bit of grit landed in the paint. It's really small and I'm so tired of the weather screwing this up and I'm just going to accept the small mark.
The larger problem though is despite masking a good few inches away from where I was painting, and despite using a fine airbrush spray, the whole panel area back to where the masking tape was got peppered with very fine dusty paint particles.
I did lots of googling and it seems that asking for non-perfect methods of resolving paint problems really sets people off - lots of capital letters everywhere saying DONT and NO and DO and MUST.
Options I can see working might be:
1) Hit it with grease remover, this will definitely 100% take the dust away but it could leave me with an advancing line where I can't get any kind of blend between cleaned and not cleaned, until I end up spoiling the new base coat where it was actually needed. Had this exact problem on the original priming attempt. Perhaps one quick single wipe across the whole area wouldnt ruin it.
2) T-cut the overspray area & new basecoat. This one particularly seems to make people on google really furious, but it would take the dusty stuff off and blend it nicely. I suppose I'd need to wet & dry it before clearcoat though.
3) 2000 grit across the whole area, wash it down then clearcoat.
Here's the problem - you can see the bit I actually painted looks smooth and deep, but outside there is the dusty overspray with a big step shape where the masking tape was. The overspray is very rough to the touch. Didn't think a modelling airgun on such a tight cone would still result in overspray that far out.
