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Thanks James, I just don't have the color red to match it, but I'm positive it wont go away... I realized the lines were visible while spraying it and went through the whole can in just the body. No biggie, have an extra body here, I will paint the Red first (As soon as I can go get it) and then do the Silver over

Thanks Paul, your Audi looks awesome!!!... Is hard to see in the photos, but there is a very dark line under the red right where I marked it with the green arrow. I will try the clear over the tape (That is the tip of the day for me).

Wheels are in, tried the thinner "dipping thing" and I was able to get a perfect circle on the nuts (Still need to remove some excess of gold though).

Good stuff!!!...

Thanks James & John... I truly appreciate the pointers and I would sure try following them. Funny thing is I barely use the brushes (Even though I have got the really good ones in all sizes), so used to masking and spraying "everything" that the hand brush skill is pretty much non existent. The other thing I noticed is the Thinner (Tamiya X-20A acrylic) creates a cloth on the surface of the paints (No matter how well you keep shaking it) and the "other" thinner (SunnySide lacquer), just kills the Tamiya paints... Probably because is meant for lacquer (Duh! ). There is also a lot of caffeine and nicotine in my system (You may be able to tell from previous threads), but if something is certain in life is the fact that I could not trace a line using a ruler and get it straight. Finished the mechanical rear end, had to use quite a bit of glue to get it to seat straight on the chassi (Not sure if the paints are too hot for this kind of plastic, but is the same issue I had with the Charger). I also painted the body, but is gong to have to be re-done... I applied the Silver first just doing a general area masking, now that the Red is on, you can really see the silver lines underneath On top of things, I spent all the Red paint.

The detail you are able to do on the parts is amazing!!!... Good inspiration to keep going

A W E S O M E !!!....

Thanks John... Gotta love road cars!!!, I honestly feel they require a lot more work (As far as decals and detailing) but they look really vivid no?... Really need to work on my hand brushing skills(More than everything else), but really happy with the progress.

And the true colors come out.... Couldn't contain myself

Thanks Paul, you are absolutely right about the molding (moulding?) lines... Is something that I need to start doing. Thanks Jonathan. I've got one more photo to be posted today (I'll probably do so after the race )

Really need to stop buying model kits or paint and get me a new camera

Very nice Tomo, the car looks really nice... Liking the background too.

Thanks bud. Took some other photos this morning (Now that is dry), but my trusty old camera finally decided to give up... Telephone pics from now on. The hand painted stuff still looks a bit crooked... Gotta work on that. The headers are a two part, gluing them together to make them fit correctly was "definitively" skill 4

Thank you Jonathan, this car sure looks like something worth building. Usually like to start by the body, but will try to stick to the instruction booklet this time... It took me all afternoon to complete the first page

Just finished with a Revell 1/24 1968 Dodge Charger R/T (Hemified) and took on this new project, it will be my build # 6 and even though the kit is marked as skill 4 is the one I have been peeking mostly lately. Thank you for reading.

Very nice!!!...

Thank you all... I truly appreciate the advice and didn't mean to make any drama. Tomo, I'm planning on doing a military car (Only this one is not going to be militarized)

Still owe you guys the photo of the engine bay... Awaiting for the distributor to come any day now. Thank you for hanging in there

It is what it is...

Heck yeah buddy!!! No biggie James, like you said, is just a model!!!.

Let's just say I wanted this car to be more of a race track model... I know it was very popular in the mid 70's for speedways, but you are right, it has the big slick tires in the rear. I just think it sucks having no pipes running along the undercarriage, if you got bent out of shape by a distributor with wrong wiring, I cannot even begin to imagine how you could feel with headers with out exhaust system... Just sayin'

The photo above is not of a drag car... Is a street car with a Level 2 race mod. Back in the late 80's and early 90's we were racing late 60's and early 70's cars, we used to race Moroso, Sebring, Hialeah and they used to be known as Cyclon cars... Tuned mufflers were key back then. It seems I keep running into your opinions for some reason... but if I wanted to build a drag car, I would have bought one of those instead.

Yes Joe, I liked it too... I believe the best results are obtained spraying from a greater distance, but yes, that initial squirt is freaky