GeeBee

Superb work !! love the colour and all the extra work you put into the build paid off ...

No, your right, that's just the first coat, it needs wet sanding to remove some dust specs, then it will get the finishing coats

Popped on the first coat this morning, but it needs a touch of wet sanding, as there's a few dust spec's that need sorting, even though I cleaned out the spraybooth and filters, but just popped up to check on the paint and it's touch dry after only a couple of hours the paint isn't even tacky, I will leave it a couple of days before sanding out the dust spots ...

Very nice build, great detail in the engine bay, what kit did you use for this ??

I was, but due to medical reason's, had to take early retirement ....

Got a little more done today, after getting the black base down yesterday I managed to get all the chrome parts done in Alclad, and all the parts that needed to be done in flat back & satin black airbrushed,

Looks very nice !!

The last few days I have been working on all the small parts, finally got them mounted on wooden sticks and got them all in primer, I spent some time yesterday masking off the seats and the side panels ready for the 2 tone to be done, the seats were a right PITA to do, but well worth the effort ... Also got all the parts that need to be done in Alclad, and got the black basecoat on, I will leave these for a couple of days to dry out before they get the top coat of Alclad.

I have a 2006 PT Cruiser in Electric Blue, which has a paint code of B5 ... I wonder if the shades are close to the older '69 colour

Nice come back after 10 years away, and to be honest, not the easiest of models to build, love it !!

very nice, hard to believe it started out as a diecast, I do like a nice Saab ....

Very nice work on the detail, looking forward to seeing more ....

Looking good, can't wait to see more of the build, I haven't built a truck for a few years, but have a few, including this one, in my stash

If you look at the photo of the right hand side gutter trim, you'll notice a bit of it is missing, it looks worse than it is, because it is actually there, but as it needs to be covered in chrome BMF when the paint has been done, i had another look at it this morning, and it would be near impossible to put the BMF there, and be able to trim it, so with a deep breath, I had a look to see what plastic strip I had, the smallest I had was some 80 thou' evergreen rod, way too big, but it would have to do, so I marked the front with a black marker, and then started to sand the sides and rear of the rod, while trying to keep the rounded profile at the front, it took some time, but I got there, sanded down the primer, attached the small piece of plastic rod with cyno' glue, and then some putty, sanding, putty, sanding, putty, grey primer, more putty and even more sanding, one last coat of grey primer to see if there were any mark's to be sanded or filled, but this time, it looked o.k, so now it's back in white primer, it will be left to dry out really well for a couple of day, then it will be wet sanded, ready for top coat, started this at around mid-day, and got finished at 6pm .... a long day doing a very small job .... but well worth it Finally Finished ....

Superb work !! I have the TR3 to build, I just hope it turns out as good as yours .... you have a very nice pair of models there !

Thanks for the tips, I have a look tomorrow, Not a great deal done today, but after looking at the body this morning in grey primer, it was clear it still needed work where the roof meets the rear wings, there were still a few marks that I wasn't happy, with, so a spot of putty and a bit of sandiing was needed to get it sorted, a quick shot of grey primer to check if things were o.k, which they were, so the whole shell and body parts got a coat of white cellulose primer, thinner than the plastic primer, but it goes on a lot smoother, I will leave it gas out for a few days, then it will get wet sanded, ready for the top coat.

Another fine model you've built there, I love the Tamiya Mini kits ....

I'm still thinking about that one, as you say, the decals aren't that convincing, I'm amazed that the Model Car Garage has a P/E set for the '68 Charger ...

Very nice work, and a brave one to go with the white, but you did a cracking job on it, another one of my favorite Mopars, I could be tempted to build one after the Charger is finished .... Love it !!!

Nice shiny paint ! Looking forward to seeing more of the build,

It could be the monitor or the photo's that I had printed out, but it was the engine colour and interior colour I was more interested in, the photo's are , UU-1 Bright blue poly, the photo's I have on the Charger are UU-1, and a photo of the VIN tag which read UU-1 for the body colour.

Also got a coat of paint on the engine ....

I've never done as much custom paint mixing as I am having to do on this build, but I like things to be as realistic as possible, working on the photo's I have, I mixed up the paint for the interior, this is the main colour, and will need masking off for the contrasting colours, I used Tamiya metallic blue and aluminium, thinned with lacquer thinners, looks good enough for me .... Also worked on the body and some of the smaller parts, got them into primer, the body will get another coat of primer, this time it will be white, as the top coat is going to be light blue metallic

Household bleach, you see the chrome lift off within a few minutes, you may have to soak the parts in some caustic soda, oven clearer should be o.k, to remove the lacquer that holds the chrome on, make sure you rinse the parts in cold running water after taken them out of the bleach, before using the oven cleaner/caustic soda.