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A bit of a disappointing result, that’s the last time I’ll use enamel to paint a plug !!
Despite being very well waxed and having a good coat of PVA the enamel reacted with the gel coat and pulled some of the paint off the plug.
The Hatch mould is usable but the finish on it is marred and I’ll have to make another one.
Here’s a pic of the plug after it came out of the mould.

   

Here’s the mould after I’ve done a bit of work on it to pretty it up.

   

The Fuselage didn’t fare much better It was stuck hard to the parting board despite having more than 10 coats of Wax and a good coat of PVA as well.
The paint on the fuse plug didn’t react as badly to the epoxy bog as the paint on the hatch plug did to the polyester tooling gel. But it still stuck in places and tore off the paint layer.
I had to cut the parting board in half to get plug out of it.Here’s a pic of the fuse plug

   

Looks like I’ll be stripping the enamel off the plugs and repainting them with 2 pack polyurethane.
Afew more laps around the mullberry bush :I
Oh well …………………….that’s areomodeling