John Goschke Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Nice color and smooth paint job, Bill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69NovaYenko Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Really dig the color what is the name of it and who makes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinfan5 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Body looks good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 Really dig the color what is the name of it and who makes it.The color is "Laguna Green" and I got the paint from my local auto paint place who mixed it for me. It's acrylic enamel which I find a bit more user friendly for me to work with when it comes to painting/airbrushing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsideous Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 A coworker had one of these. He was making extra cash importing older vehicles in from Japan. You've done a great job that under carriage looks fantastic. The interior looks so clean. I love it so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Thanks Al! Well, today I'm gonna try (the operative word "try") to get it all clearcoated today. It's been awhile since I used my Tamiya X-22 clear and I think what I'll do is test it out on that plastic spoon I painted a while back to make sure there are no surprises with fisheyes, adhesion, etc. As I mentioned, it'll have a subtle tint to it to blunt those metallic flakes just a touch--------meanwhile as things are drying out, I'm at the very beginning stages of my next WIP. I've got some stripping of a donor body I want to use going on, and I've got lines drawn out on the main body as to where I'm going to make the various cuts and such. Look for new WIP post on that in the days to come............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 The humidity in my house was playing nice today, despite temps in the upper 80's outside. I went ahead and got everything clearcoated as I had planned.................. I did tint the Tamiya X-22 clearcoat as I mentioned earlier with 6 drops each of Tamiya Clear Green and their Clear Blue. This did knock down some of the "harshness" of the metallic flakes a bit and I'm happy with the ultimate hue of the paint. Everything now sits in my dehydrator, and later this evening I'll turn it on at 105 degrees, and let it sit overnight. I don't like to heat up Tamiya's clear too soon.......the heat does something to it if heated up right away as I've learned in the past. I let the paint set up a bit before letting the dehydrator do its thing. Next (after the paint has fully cured) will be the tedious task of rubbing and polishing everything out-------just like a real car. Particularly the roof, hood and trunk I like to focus on as those are the first things that get noticed when a model is on display as that's what the light is hitting. I don't ignore the sides and such, but for newbies that want to get their nice paint job really noticed------------really focus on those three areas. For me this stage of the game is all downhill..........after it's all rubbed out and polished, it's just a matter of final putting it all together and detailing. Glass, interior, wheels on the chassis (which all five wheels are painted now), and get it done. Maybe I can get all of this done by the middle of next month or earlier? We'll see............ Thanks for lookin'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsepower Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Just something to think about for future reference, if you're going to have a friendly paint shop mix your paint switching the metallic in the formula for a silver pearl will make for an even finer metallic than using the fine aluminum metallic. That's how fingernail polish gets such fine metallics for their colors. In fact if I can find a polish that matches or is super close I'll use it because their metallics are so close to scale appearance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbike-shaun Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 lookin downhill from here! i think its awesome u have such profound knowledge of how to play nice with your paints! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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