Dragonhawk1066

Nicely done in an excellent color!

Very nice looking Road Runner!

Very well done, and a great color! That is a very nice and fun kit to build, makes me wish I had another.

It does look pretty cool like that, kind of an accidental patina, lol.

I'm going to try silver and charcoal gray for the flames. Your two builds of this kit are what's guiding me on how to do the flames. I only hope I can do your teachings justice.

I re-sprayed the Stynylrez Gray Primer on the body this morning and am happy to say it meets my approval. I also measured and bent some wiring for the hinges and glued some tubing in place for them as well as some thin sheet styrene to keep the trunk in place. Now I'll work on mixing up a custom blue for it and possibly get it painted tomorrow.

WOW! Excellent work on that one! Extremely well detailed!

I sure hope so, my hand started cramping and the rest of my arm felt like it was going to fall off, so I hope it was worth it, lol. The LA's Totally Awesome did pretty much nothing to strip the paint after three days, so I was relegated to trying to sand the paint off. After lots of wet-sanding, starting with 220 grit, then 320 grit and finally 600 grit it feels pretty smooth. I will spray some Stynylrez Primer back on it tomorrow and see what it looks like.

Yeah, that's exactly what I did today, lots of sanding.

That's a good looking Camaro!

Thing is, I did spray the Duplicolor on a couple of spoons, one with white primer and the other with gray primer to see if there was a difference in tone a couple of years ago. I'm pretty sure I used Stynylrez Primer then too and the test turned out nice and smooth.

Nice looking Goat!

Thanks guys! Thanks Mike! Sorry to hear about your stay in the Hospital, I hope your feeling better and it wasn't anything too serious.

I made my way out to the shed to spray the Bahama Blue, and that's where disaster struck, twice. First, after spraying the first light coat I noticed a spot on each side just behind the door that wasn't present after the primer stage. I gave it another light coat and it was still there, so after a few minutes to dry I brought the body in for a quick dry-sand. I sanded it with 1500 grit and it seemed smooth enough to try another coat. It seemed to cover better, so I gave it a medium coat, then a heavy coat which appeared to do the trick. I went out to check on it a half hour later and the spots were still pretty prevalent. Not only that, but the paint dried with an alligator skin-like texture to it. I brought it back in and gave it another dry-sand, this time with 600 grit. The texture did not want to go away, so I decided to put it into an LA's Totally Awesome bath to hopefully strip the paint so I can start over with a different paint/shade of blue.

It seems like everyone else has built at least one of these, so I figure it's finally my turn. The plan is for the body to be Duplicolor Bahama Blue with Silver, Charcoal, and Black flames using a flame mask from New York Speed Shop that I bought from Iceman Collections on ebay a few years ago. I also took the plunge and cut out the trunk to attempt making hinges for an opening trunk for the very first time. After all of the body and parts prep was done, I sprayed the Stynylrez Primer on.

Yes, one of my very early introductions to Ollie's. I've only managed to score a handful of kits there over the years though.

Thanks guys! Thanks! It was a lot more challenging than I expected. I also have the '31 Bugatti Royale that I planned on doing not long after this one, but after the fight it gave me I won't be subjecting myself to that kind of torture again anytime soon, lol.

I finished the Lindberg 1929 Mercedes Benz SSK a few days ago. It's painted in Apple Barrel Dark Granite Gray and Anita's Glossy Black. This one was a little out of my comfort zone of mainly 60's and 70's muscle cars and fought me every step of the way, but I managed to get it finished. I started working on this one while I was stalled on the 1969 Ford Torino Cobra and it didn't take too long to finish after that one was done. It's not my best work, but it will look just fine on my shelf when I finally get one. Thanks for looking!

Yeah, I do agree they're too glossy. I did spray them with a matte varnish, it's just not good enough of a matte look. When I get a different brand of matte, I'll probably re-visit these and give them another coat.

Nicely done!

That looks great! What a cool idea!

Looks pretty good. The Tamiya TS-58 is a great color and the vinyl top looks good as well.

Thanks guys!

Nicely done!

Nice looking Challenger!