Byron5150
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Here's the green. Was able to get a good paint job after all I've struggled with so far. And even with this you can see on the left body side near bottom parts I have like blob/fish eye going on. Orange peel is gone. With the hood from an angle, you can see where the marks are, from when I thought the paint was dry. Although I should be able to remove that with polish/waxing. If I can get the left bottom side cleared out, I may shoot a couple coats of clear over this. But I think what I'll most likely do is just let the paint cure till Monday and proceed with wet sanding, polishing, and waxing. Hoping I can use that as an advantage to fix the miss haps with this car haha. Green amongst with yellow, orange, and a few others are the easiest to get orange peel. Whhoooooo well anyways here's some pics. I'll probably do some interior and chassis as I wait.
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Thanks man the color I used definitely looks sweet, besides the minor mishaps with paint, on different paint. Cheers,
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Tamiya's paints better than any spray paint I've ever owned especially smooth finish almost everytime. Even if your not good at spraying you'll get even coverage. But as for PUTTY Tamiya's putty is great. I'm not a Tamiya finattic but everything I've gotten from them, models,glue, paint, putty, sanding stuff, polish, tools etc work awesome!! Cheers,
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Green looks good so far but I'm having some orange peel so I may strip it and prime with tamiya primer. But will see if I can fix it first, I need one more wet coat. So if I can fix the peel and what not I'll spray over it again with the green, if not I will be stripping it. It may have reacted to the krylon primer. Touched the hood cuz I thought it was dry, now I have yet another thumb print :/
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nice looking paint job so far
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Here's a pic of the primer used, the green that was just sprayed for the first dust coat. It's Tamiya TS-20 And then my new stuff that came today, novus 2 polish, and Mr. Mark Softer Will have pics of the second dust coat soon.
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I do have the blue, but I'm saving it for a 69' camaro coming up. Does anyone have a good old camaro kit? Z28 Yellow and orange would be sick!! Cheers,
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Tamiya's kind works phenomenally, I don't do it much, but for the times I've used it works great!
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Looks great so far Tamiya have great kits, and this is definitely a fun one!!
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Very true Ill still be doing the green. But would love to hear what you guys would do.
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NJJeff, That is a sweet color and car. I always could do black. What colors would you guys like to see or want? I was going to go with the green that's on the box. I still may go with it, but I'd love to hear some opinions. Cheers,
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Thanks. Well a lot people try to replicate the shaddow effect between the panels and doors. Some even use a slight color/black wash depending on the color of your model. With this way the black wash & panel lines are very apparent in the prep and prime stage. But as the color lays down it naturally gets less apparent but you can still see that there widen a bit and parts of the black wash help make that more apparent. So this helps when you view the model at different angles the panel lines look different and the shaddows of them change just like real cars. I just like the way they turn out when you scribe the lines and then black wash them before the paint. Here's my mazda 626 98' obviously it's black but so are the panel lines, but these are black because that's what paint it is. With a light blue car the panel lines would be blue but from the same perspective point that I took this car picture they would appear as a blackish color/shadowing. This is just my opinion and out take from it. Cheers,
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Here's the white primer down. I used Krylon color master white primer. After 24 hours I will, wet sand and tooth paste(finest wet sand) and then it will be ready to paint.
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HAHA Yea there pretty sweet thats for sure! My dad had a few back then too. I myself can't wait but Im taking things slow at least for the body work
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70 hemi cuda "what if" build * July 19 update. Very close now
Byron5150 replied to freakshow12's topic in WIP: Model Cars
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Wow man looks incredible!
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Partially Primed & Problems Well I laid the first coat of primer using Tamiya's grey surface primer. And the paint ran out, naturally I tried using all that I could get out of my moneys worth (lol) causing some paint drops on the roof of the car as well as some un even spray. Oh yea and a thumb print after dropping it. Things happen but we gotta stay patient, so I wet sanded with #1000 grit, mostly fixating on the major parts first and then lightly throughout the rest of the car, then I followed that up with #2000 Grit. Then of course a re wash with soap and water. Car looks great and is smoother than ever, which I always say, "the smoother it is, the better your paint job will be" And that goes with anything. So Ill be picking up some Krylon Plastic white primer here in a bit and finish the car up for its primer stage. Here's a pic after fixing. (I moved some lighting in my booth to help with yellow light tint & added a filter to the pic, to help fully see detail and process. But hey all great pics these days are edited haha. For future pics I'll turn off the background light) P.s. I won't give away the body color yet, however I used grey because thats all I have. But I will say by using white primer it will enhance the color better, than if I was using grey... Cheers,
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It's not my favorite car but they are sweet for sure!! (My favorite is a 67' Camaro) Ill look forward to making this a great build for my self and all of you here watching.
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Looking great so far that is an awesome car, I recently seen one at a car show. And its amazing to see how you can a build a body from scratch, I've never tried it nor do I think I would be successful.
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Good to hear from another, that this a good kit to build. This is actually my first nova build lol Cheers,
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Thats great to hear! I used to the wash for the panel lines after, but it never looked as good. So now I do it before so it sort of naturally comes through the paint job. And again its good to hear I've helped someone already, so any time!!
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Hey guys, It's been awhile since I've posted here and I've built a few models since then. I figured I'd start posting again to help people, as well as get comments/ advice for my own self as a model hobbyist. Feel free to ask any questions. So let's begin. Here's the kit Parts look good so far, but I haven't done much too them yet, although I prepared the body. Which did have some flash on the trunk fenders and wheel wells. But overall looks like a good kit. So I cleaned that up and wet sanded the body and the hood using #1000 grit. After that I scribed the panel lines and applied a black wash to the panel lines. Here's progress so far, I will be priming hopefully by tomorrow. Cheers, P.S. First time using this quick pic attachment, plus I'm using my iphone. Hopefully they turned out well if not I'll repost them.
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Who makes the best Skyline R34 Nismo kit?
Byron5150 replied to brodie_83's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
I believe that car is a 99' Nissan Skyline Gtr R34 V-spec II. I'm currently building Tamiya's Skyline Gtr R34 V-spec II. I'd say it resembles it pretty good, great kit with no flash! Check out that one on Tamiya's website and see what you think. Cheers, Byron -
Amt/Ertl 95' Mitsubishi Eclipse (The fast and the furious)
Byron5150 replied to Byron5150's topic in WIP: Model Cars
Alrighty guys sorry for the long wait. But the eclipse is all done. Engine accents were painted with model master french blue, tamiya aluminum and testors metallic silver for the chrome spots. Rims were stripped of chrome partially and painted with tamiya aluminum. I also put mesh from a tiny speaker cover and painted it with tamiya semi gloss black, If there's any questions further doing of the build feel free to ask. without further words I would say this build thread is complete Enjoy
