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  1. Looking for a gloss spray that is a really light off white or cream color? Who makes a good one ?
  2. First off thanks for the advice and posting all these great paint jobs there is some beautiful work here eye candy for sure Second the advice was perfect. Since I am doing wood it is probably easier but I gave it a few days to dry, remember it is only the size of a postage stamp, then flooded some 2000 grit sandpaper with linseed oil (which is on the wood under the lacquer as well) and wet sanded away the orange peel. Followed by polishing with an old cotton flannel I now have a finish that rivals or exceeds the ones I have seen on some of the costliest furniture I do some car modeling but also 1:12 scale wood furniture and sterling silver sculpture and have been working on upgrading my finishing techniques and this was a big improvement you can see in one of my earlier efforts the wood just doesn't have the finish I am looking for (at 1:12 Marc Antony is about 1.5" tall)
  3. thanks everyone. my project is a little different as it actualy some really small wood I am clear coating but I knew this would be the place to ask based on the knowledge i know is here this is the piece I clear coated the white spot at the top right is actually the sun reflecting off it. overall 3/4 inch square or about the size of my thumbnail. three coats of clear lacquer there is just a bit of orange peel to it
  4. What grit do you use when rubbing out a clear lacquer overcoat? And how long do you typiclly give it to dry first?
  5. Friend of mine had a white one spent a lot of time cruising in it
  6. finished in the mock up - like I said there isnt a lot of room to see in the interior and when the glass goes in probably even less but I do think they are a improvement
  7. Thanks it came out just a tad too wide but it was also to get the concept down. I think I will go with a 1/32 thick core and maybe six pleats i need to trim almost 1/8" off the width and height.
  8. Working on a 1/43 Tin Wizard Mercedes 380S. This is most of the interior the seats bear a passing resemblance to the 1:1 but lack depth So I tried to make smething with a little more robust (Pics are from my cell phone and are a little rough the seat base is about 1/2" by 5/8" and a little hard to photo.) First I cut the base from 1/16" oak. I laminated a piece of 1/32" scrap on the bottom crosswise both to hekp it resist warping and give a little elevation then I cut some 1/16" dowel and wrapped and glued the 1.5 ounce goat skin around three sides of each piece. After it dried I trimmed the leather. I made the edging from a strip of leather with the top edge folded over Glued the pleats to the base Trimmed them to fit and glued the edging around it now to do the back the same way Any tips on how to do this better would be appreciated. I need to pinch in the back corner a little but will do the other seat the reverse and put the two coners inside so it doesnt show. Of course with the top up in 1:43 there isn't much to see inside
  9. Is this project still viable? I am interested in pledging if it still is. Feel free to PM me the necessary information. Thanks.

  10. Will do am doing my Cobra interior in it to replicate black leather
  11. Has anyone ever used acrylic gesso on interior seats and the like? I used to use it to prime metal war game figures and used to basically just glop it on without thinning. It would look really horrible like you’d dipped the figure in paint and was a big blob but then magically overnight it shrank down tight as a drum and all the details popped back out. I was thinking the black version would replicate a black leather interior really well with a coat of semi gloss clear over it this is a quick video someone did you can actually see it shrinking down in time lapse
  12. Isn’t that a thing of beauty. The bare aluminum finish really highlights the clean lines of the early 289 cobras so if I am relying on rattle cans what’s the best aluminum paint?
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