Funkychiken

Fantastic little car, and great photos!

hanks for the kind comments!So the original reason this got shelved is that the paint work did not go so well. First time I had tried to use Zero Paints 2K clear. I was spraying over Tamiya Red from an aerosol can (it was left for 2 weeks to dry) It turns out that the recommended 15% thinner doesn't work, since I have used 40 to 50% thinner, and this stuff sprays really well. But it takes so long to spray, I find that the 2K starts to go-off in the airbrush after the 3rd coat. Anyway, the paint finish was awful, as seen in the photos, I spent (on & off) a couple of months sanding it out - which is where I am today, I have recently masked off a few areas to re-spray - I had some of that Tamiya red left in the can, they are in inconspicuous areas, so I will give it a light dusting... When it's dry, I'll start to finish up, I'm still undecided as to whether to cut out the door sides... Re-spay is here - where I had burned through the finish coats:

Neat little car!

you can try a bit of varnish or clear paint to stick the emblems, but the build looks great to me...

cool kit & great start!

Great build! I've never seen one of these before, in real life, or as a kit, and I kind of like the colour combo too.

Looking Good!

Interior finished. I used "the model car garage" PE bezels for the gauges. I wanted to cut out the door sides & add seat belts, but ran out of patience and time... I might still do it, depending on how it looks when I mock up the body.

2 weeks ago I finished the body... or I thought I had. It was sprayed with nail polish heavily diluted with Tamiya lacquer. Then left for a few weeks & finished with Zero paints 2K clear. There were 3 or 4 dust spots, and so I thought I'd use a sanding regime on just those areas, looks like I'm going to rub out & polish the whole car. the un polished look was probably good enough, but uneven in some key areas & I wanted to get rid of the dust...

Like what you've done with it!

jaw droppingly good!

Lots of painful masking & spraying, then remasking to hit the overspray etc!

Thanks Ash! Interior in, skull white aerosol & Tamiya X-18 airbrush...

Engine complete and mounted

Chassis was primed with a water based primer (which is a bit gloopy and difficult to airbrush) then masked and finished with good old Tamiya X-18

The wheels were stripped, and sprayed with Alclad II, not many coats of chrome, to give it a dull or dark look.

Really simple kit, and goes together nicely. Stripped most of the chrome parts, shown here is the wheels stripped ready for airbrushing. Shown also is the gear gate & gear stick. Both stripped, then primed, base coat was alclad II black & alclad II chrome to finish. The interior was sprayed with alclad black base & aluminium to finish, but it textured up due to the vortexes when airbrushing into corners, this always happens to me in interior tubs - especially the grey primer. I was going to cut holes in the sides of the tub, and add a pull chord door opener - like the reference photos, but couldn't be bothered in the end. Seats are basic, but finished, wanted to add seat belts, but again, just wanted to finish this bad boy...

Paint job is sweet...

Agree with the paint job - looks great!

Hot build, and it's going together really well. I know how you feel about all the pain of adding extra detail - only to find it's completely hidden in the finished model.

What happens if it meets a speed bump? Like the clean build, and love the wheels...

Different colour, but excellent build, another one I'm too scared to start...

great build of a really detailed model, I have one in the stash, not got the nuts to start it! well done!

Really clean & tidy build, love the wheels...

Now that's a paint job to turn heads, great build!