MarkJ

Excellent job, Mark. Watched the wip with much attention and it's great to see the first of 3 done. Looks flawless from any angle.

Pierre, it is a great product so far. but like you say I'm kind of worried about the handling. We shall see. I'm going to give it a full week before I touch it and will wear clear plastic gloves to not leave any fingerprints.

After taking the offramp for the Chrom I'm back to the build. Made some roll cage padding for where it's needed on the cage. Drilled out some 1/8-inch tubing and slit it down the side and installed it over the .080 roll cage tubes. It really helps to use a jar opener pad when drilling out the tubes. I'm going to call the roll cage finished except for the bars behind the windshield. Now on to the rear suspension.

Took a picture of a cup car I did from this era of Nascar . I will use it as a guide to do the rear suspension of this car. After that, maybe I can start finishing up this build from hell. I've been handling the body so much I think I'm going to have to lightly sand it and hit it with a coat of clear just to bring the finish back. It's really starting to look dull and listless.

Yup, Dave, that's basically what I did but my results with the low humidity were much better than with the 90% humidity. Hopefully you don't live in the middle of Louisiana because Francine is headed your way. Try to stay safe yourself. We just went through Beryl a month ago and lost our power for a week. Luckily our house was okay.

Finally got a 55% day and got better results. I'm happy and can move on to the rest of the build.

Will leave these parts in the clam shell for a couple of more days. Want to make sure they are safe to handle without putting fingerprints in them. I might put a thin coat of future on them but I'm afraid it might dull them a little. I will have to put a lot of pressure on the wheels to install them into the tires. Not too worried about the other parts that much.

And just like magic, its fixed. Great work as usual, Pierre.

Sure is, Ken. Now I can move on and try to actually finally finish this year-old build.

Thanks, Anton, for stopping by for support. I have great news. The chrom came out so good I can't believe I actually did it. I think the difference was applying the chrom to a glossy painted surface instead of raw plastic and that I had 55% humidity to work with. When I get a chance, I will post photos of the pieces I painted. They look better than kit chrome on a sprue. If I can get these results, anybody can.

Mark, it seems like I'm looking at the real car instead of a model. Excellent, excellent work on this one. Can't wait to see all three finished.

I'm fixing to go outside to paint these parts chrome. I also finished the front part of the chassis where it fits into the nose of the body. If I never post anymore on this thread you will know what happened. The chrome was a major failure and I quit the build.

Got the parts painted yesterday. Turned out the paint was metallic black, but it is lacquer so it's nice and dry today. It dried glossy which is what I was hoping for. The glossier it is the better the chrome spray will look. I added a spoon top without the handle to the plate to shoot first to get my action down pat before moving on to the parts. I will wait till I'm at optimum humidity level outside before I shoot. I'm going to let the parts cure for a few days before I handle them. Hope this works out okay.

Will paint the parts on the plate today black and then hit them with the chrome tomorrow. The humidity will be lower but it's supposed to be windy so I will have to find a place in the back yard shielded from the wind somewhat.

Pierre, that roof looks so much better, and the front air dam does too. It's amazing to watch how you go about fixing a problem and then fix it and show us how you did it. Outstanding is not a good enough word to describe your build technique.

Nifty fixture, indeed. Those tires look much more real now.

Finally found this, Ken. I don't know how i missed something I followed religiously that was finished a month ago. I feel like I must have been in hibernation for a month but know that I wasn't. So sorry I missed the unveiling.. Awesome work and looking forward to more of your excellent builds.

Totally missed this one Ken. Awesome work again and the scratch building is amazing to say the least. Did you finish the GT40 and I missed that too? It's tough to get old and forgetful.

I cleaned up the wheels from when I painted them with alcadII chrome and will shoot them, with some other parts I want to chrome on Saturday, when the humidity is supposed to get down in the 50% range. I will shoot them with some black lacquer spray can paint from testors which says it has primer, paint and sealer all wrapped up in one product. I'm hoping to shoot them as glossy as I can get them so when I shoot them again on Sunday, which will still be low humidity, with the Revell Chrom. I'm hoping to finally get the results I'm looking for. I have found that it is the process of shooting which will either make the finish look chrome or not. So, it is up to the user to get it right. In other words, using the Revell Chrom is not a slam dunk as far as your results will be.

Nope, more like Galveston. We have air you can wear in the summertime.

Okay, I'm starting to worry a little bit. I watched the video above again and realized the presenter was using like ten short bursts in a row on his spoons to achieve his very good results. I decided to try one more spoon using his method, and I got very good results even with the humid conditions outside. I brought the spoon inside into low humidity air-conditioned house and what had looked good right after I did it started to morph into cracks and weird spots ruining what I thought I had achieved. I'm thinking maybe I should give the plastic spoon a gloss black coat of rattle can tamiya for a base coat and see what happens. painting something black is easier to tell what kind of results you are getting then painting something white. Plus, I think the chrome needs something better to latch on to then just raw plastic. We shall see.

Yes, Charles's way is much better than having a printer make your parts. JMHO.

I'm in deep southeast Texas which is even worse when it comes to humidity.

I got my Revell Chrom on Saturday and decided to try it outside yesterday. I wanted to see how it would do on an over 90% humidity day. Wasn't good. First spoon I had to put too much material down to make it gloss so the material kind of puddled up and also looked like it had trash in it which it didn't. the second spoon I got too far away, and it blushed badly. I'm supposed to get a front on Thursday which will bring the humidity down in the 60% range. I hope I get better results then. And I hope the front actually comes through. We don't usually get cold fronts down here in southeast Texas in early September.

I got my Revell Chrom on Saturday and decided to try it outside yesterday. I wanted to see how it would do on an over 90% humidity day. Wasn't good. First spoon I had to put too much material down to make it gloss so the material kind of puddled up and also looked like it had trash in it which it didn't. the second spoon I got too far away, and it blushed badly. I'm supposed to get a front on Thursday which will bring the humidity down in the 60% range. I hope I get better results then. And I hope the front actually comes through. We don't usually get cold fronts down here in southeast Texas in early September.