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  1. Tommy124
    We are on the same page there Alex... If you go for a certain, specific race car or livery, then it has to be accurate! But what I mean is that as a car builder you do have the choice to build for instance a Porsche 962 as a "private car" in green color - WITHOUT the livery of course. Whereas for military planes, even though that there may be exceptions, it's not very likely that they will be painted in anything but the original camouflage design.
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    That's a great choice of kits, all of which (except for the Aoshima Lambo) I have built a long time ago. Meaning I will have to build them once more sometime... I trust you will make WIP's for all of them?? If I you allow me, Dann, I'd like to show a Porsche 959 from Canepa, the most beautiful I have seen so far. Because, let's face it, a great car bust mostly all the same colors. This one looks different, yet classic to me: https://canepa.com/1988-porsche-959-canepa-gen-iii/ If anyone wants to know the color name, it's Seal Grey, as Bruce Canepa kindly let me know on my request. I have that color on stock already...
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    Yes, and I'll do a Porsche 911 GT1 in plain white because I don't like the race liveries... That said, there HAVE been road versions of the CLK GTR and the 911 GT1, so no problem anyways. And I feel that's the big freedom of being a CAR model builder. We can paint a Ferrari F40 in pink if we like, whereas doing a pink Messerschmidt Me-109 or battleship might seem odd...
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    I fully agree! The final result will look awesome!
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    I didn't check on this WIP for some time. Somehow I mostly miss this as it is not in the "workbench" section... Dann, your progress is looking real great. You are really doing the big scale the justice that it deserves. And I can only fully agree to that. Dann, your great WIP's and the advice that you unselfishly share in order to help others are MUCH APPRECIATED! Your words, my thoughts! The front bumpers are even more ugly on a Countach... Love the dark purple Diablo in the background though...
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    Guess this forum is lacking the dropped jaw emoticon...
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    Progress looks good! Maple Leafs? It'll be soccer time over here. Excuses, excuses...
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    Now that's a positive attitude... The vents look good! They weren't on the board before, right? Other than that I fail to see what you have "messed up"... Btw is that your masterplan of what your next builds will be, on the yellow chart??
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    You can surely do that on a race car, but then you'll have to leave the livery, I guess. Imho some race cars actually look much better painted in regular color only, example, see the Porsche 911 GT3R which has recently been added to the gallery... I'm thinking of this one: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/136289-fujimi-911-gt3r/
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    Maybe Dann you're the ONLY ONE who understands it like that? I guess he went for another yellow because the first one gave a bad coverage, not necessarily because he wanted a darker one... You know with models of racing cars, there's the need for a certain degree of accuracy. This is a certain livery and a certain kind of yellow finish will have to go with that, I suppose. It doesn't mean he picked the wrong yellow color, but maybe he should go for another primer color. That said, it is of course Will's decision whether to go for this or any other kind of color...
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    A real beauty, excellent work in all departments!
  12. Tommy124
    Well done, I like that golden brown!
  13. Tommy124
    Nice result, I like the Benz! Did you try to carefully bend and re-shape it in very warm water?
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    Hi William, I will ALWAYS follow a build of a 962 or 956... Your yellow paint job is well done but indeed the yellow looks a bit dark. Which kind of primer did you use? When shooting my Nissan Fairlady in orange over grey primer, I found out that the primer color makes a heck of a difference, especially when it comes to body colors like yellow, orange, white... you name them.
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    No problem at all, JC... Your expertise and your comments are more than welcome! And I hate monologue-style WIP's...
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    My opinion absolutely, nicely put. I try to commit myself to the level of detailing (which equals level of work) I intend to put into a kit, prior to even starting it. Needless to say, this does not always work as you grow on the model and mostly discover lots of its shortcomings no sooner than in the middle of the process. I'm glad I've not only grown as a modeler but also in character (if you know what I mean) - compared to my first "great building period" 20 or 25 years ago - which gives me the patience to put a build on hold for a while, if necessary. Which is exactly what I am doing now with the Porsche build because I felt that all the adjusting work for the aftermarket parts is not that much fun anymore at the moment. You see I'm in it for the fun of building too, but unlike in former times I won't let impatience get the better of me. I guess that when you're a bit older you don't want to waste good results easily anymore...
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    Great save of a beautiful (and rare) kit!
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    Nice job on the BB, Dann! It's a beautiful body color that works very well in contrast with the black trim! Nice collection indeed, but at least 2 are missing (Esci, Marui).
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    Looks great JC, good effort. Guess the same thing will happen to the door panels? As to my own progress, the work on fitting the aftermarket brakes and rims has become somewhat tiresome. As mentioned above, I will show the process in details once it's done but I assume I will take a break from this build for a while and do something "quicker" in the meantime. Thinking of making a restoration to an old, simple kit... Before that, however, I will post the images on the Porsche's body paint job. During all of my research on this car I saw lots of images of the car in silver and l liked it a lot. There was one favorite color I would have done rather than that and that would be amethyst metallic. However, as at this stage that color wasn't available to me, I went for silver. The color of choice is Tamiya TS 17. After that I gave it a shot with Spraila automotive 1k clear from the can. Orange peel, right? Right! There just HAS to be orange peel on my clear, otherwise something's wrong... But with a lot of elbow grease, and using Tamiya sanding sponge 3000 grit and Micro Mesh grit 3200 up to 12000 (all sanded wet), followed by polishing all 3 Tamiya compounds, the result was more to my liking: To be continued...
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    Thanks a LOT for sharing another great trick, Dann! This will be tried out!
  21. Tommy124
    Hi Dann, this wood effect really looks great! I would be interested in learning about your technique too...
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    Looking forward to see you build this. Btw, it’s from 1978, according to Scalemates: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/128161-tamiya-24009-mazda-savanna-rx-7
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    A cool kit done great!
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    Good idea. I think those silver-only Fuchs rims are mostly lacking some depth (or black inside painting...), so you did just the right thing!
  25. Tommy124
    Thanks, Anders. You think I should sell them for money? But wait, it's just Evergreen stuff and everybody can buy that! Thanks to you too, David. I chose to build this "dispensable" kit over other Diablo kits from my stock (I have 2 Fujimi kits) as I did not know how good or bad the results would be. As I mentioned, this was to be my first kit after 20 years... As far as the ZP 1k clear is concerned... I just don't like it. There is no good balance between effort (and the stinking!) and result imho. I used this once again a few months ago in order to make an intermediate clear coat (for decals to be applied on, final 2k to be used over the decals) and I hoped my learning curve would help me to get along with the stuff better 2 years later but - nope! My advice, if you decide to go down "poison road" where the stinky stuff comes from, use the 2k right away. It's much better, it can be better sanded, polished etc. As an alternative for 1k clear I can however recommend the new Tamiya Laquer Paint (LP-9). That is some funny stuff that requires an awful lot of thinners (ratio 1:3 !), but it shoots very nicely through the airbrush and it can be easily polished. I hear only very little about people using these Tamiya LP colors, but I used a couple of them and they are very good. It's actually the same stuff that's in the TS cans, only the variety of colors available is different.
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