MarkJ

There is a polish for model cars that comes in bottles that the name escapes me now and I don't know if you would be affected by the smell of it which isn't very strong but the finest level of it is good for getting rid of sanding scratches. Its buried in one of my stash boxes so hopefully somebody else can remember the name of it.

I agree. It has a nice iridescence to it.

I tried smoothing the primer this morning with the hand pad and it did pretty good. I have had some acrylic primers in the past that never seemed to completely cure, and they did not sand out well. Instead of making dust when you sand them, they just scratch up and don't really smooth out. Vallejo primer is bad about that. Good news though. I found about a quarter of a rattle can of Tamiya white surface primer that I can use after I smooth out the bottle primer I have already used.

I might have made a huge mistake brush painting that Tamiya acrylic primer straight out of the bottle . I've never seen a primer dry that fast before. It really needed to be thinned with lacquer thinner but i can't use that inside my house. it's too strong an odor and my wife would have not been happy at all. Hopefully it will sand down smooth enough to where I can shoot the color over it. The description of the product by Tamiya said you can brush paint it out of the bottle if you want to. Take my advice, don't do it.

Kevin, if you look about three pictures up in the thread you will see a bottle of it propping up the build for a photo. It's called Createx W304 Wicked Pearl blue. I really like these wicked colors they have. I used them on the Monte Carlo I did before this build. I believe I will just use a standard opaque red for the sides of the roof and the wheels on this model.

Thanks, Kevin. I'm trying to stay focused on this one but having a hard time because I'm really excited about my next build. Can't stop thinking about it and doing research on it when I should be concentrating on this one.

Got the wiper stuff removed and capped the ends of the rear spoiler. Also smoothed off the body with the hand pads I show in the image below. I'm ready to prime today and the weather looks good for airbrushing outside next week. Probably paint the red on the sides of the roof first with a bristle brush. Mask it, shoot the gold on the roof. Mask that and then do the blue after figuring out how to mix the paint for it. Needs to be a little lighter than it is from the bottle. I might add a little silver metallic to it as well. Have to see how the just pearlized looks first.

Thanks, Todd but I don't need to get that picky on this build. I could tell when I was doing the decals that the model did not exactly fit the profile of the real car. They hardly ever do.. This is going to be one of those close enough for government work builds. a saying my dad use to always say who was a government employee.

Got the rear spoiler mostly finished. Just some more sanding and add some end caps to it. Rechecked the trunk decal and it still will fit so no problem there. All I lack is removing the wiper blades and arms. Then I can sand the whole body and prime it. I found out that the primer I bought, even though it is acrylic, has to be thinned with lacquer thinner which I will not work with, so I realized that the primer right out of the bottle is thin enough to just brush on the body. Thats what I used to do anyway when I wasn't using the airbrush. It has to be sanded anyway so it does not need to be shot on with the airbrush. Looking forward to painting this build. the colors should make for a nice and unusual color scheme.

Got the hood finished and made the fuel filler socket for the fuel filler and cap. Also installed lips on the wheel openings. All I lack now is a rear spoiler and sanding down the whole body to get it ready for primer. I tried to buy some rattle can tamiya white surface prime but my LHS was out of it so I bought some bottle Tamiya primer and will prime the body with the airbrush. bummer. I forgot, I also need to remove the wiper blades and arms. Never a fun thing to do.

Thanks, Bob. It was a fun build that I always wanted to do again after 53 years.

good to hear, David. I think you will find that they do make a difference in the quality of your inside air

Filled in the voids on the hood and glued the hood shut. Just need to sand the void areas flush and I think I have to add a feature line to the hood on both sides to finish making it a stock Fairlane hood. In that ref picture below, you can see where the gold meets the blue at the bottom of the roof at the bottom corners of the back glass. It's barely perceptible.

David, the picture below is what I have in my den or largest room in the house. The other two are the same type but made by Holmes that are about half the size, but they all do the same thing. Forgive the picture quality. I had to take a picture of a picture on my p.c. monitor. You don't have to get these brands just get one or how many you want that does the same thing the pictured one does. There are probably hundreds of brands out there and all are probably very similar in quality. I'm sure there has to be something in the U.K. that is readily available, or you could always use amazon or something like that. Take care.

David, I live in southeast Texas that is full of pollutants in the air from the many plants I live around and the weather is almost always very humid which promotes mold . I live in a 55 year-old house and if I did not have 3 separate plug in air filters going 24/7 I would be in a lot of trouble.. Even with a central air conditioning system which is necessary for anybody who lives down here whether you have health issues or not. I switched to acrylic paints about ten years ago and have no issues with modeling. I have to use a rescue inhaler albuterol twice a day, morning when I get up and evening when I go to bed and a maintenance inhaler Asmanex also twice a day. If I did not, I would be in a lot of trouble. I have made a place outside to airbrush when the weather allows it and only use acrylics out there as well only because I don't have a place in the house with an evacuation system and I would get overspray all over the work area I use. I am like you; I can't give up modeling. It is the only thing that keeps me sane. If you don't have plug in air filters in your house you should definitely look into getting at least three of them and spread them around your house.

oops. already thanked you but thanks again anyway. that's what happens when a new page in a thread starts up.

Thank you, Beckham. Your interest in the build is very appreciated.

Thank you, Trevor. When they came out with the low-cost way to use a laser printer and the ghost white toner to make white decals, I knew I had to get it and somehow learn to use it. I notice that Micro Mark no longer sells the printer or the ghost white toner. Must have had a lot of problems making people satisfied with their results. Luckily, they still sell the laser clear decal paper.

Some more cutting and taping the paper images to see if the decals will fit. I made and printed a Nascar decal for the right side of the car but the real car didn't have one on the right side of the car so I will leave that off. One shot shows a Prestone decal on top of one of the numbers on the right door and I did not make that one on purpose because I did not like the look of a contingency on top of a number. That just aint right, as they would say in Texas. I'm officially through with the decals and will concentrate only on building and painting the model from now on.

Thanks, Jason. I have that photo from an internet search but it's not as crisp as your card. Thats the trouble with making my own decals. I can't get my printer to print a bright red roof decal like the actual car had. I actually printed an orange image file, but it still printed as red. Oh well, can't have everything.

Sorry, Dave. Very bad form on my part. I should have private messaged Pierre. Won't happen again. Please except my heart felt apologies to you and all of the other posters here.

Pierre, tell me more about this Ferrari. I don't seem to remember ever seeing it on your bench in the wips, or in the showroom. I need more views of this awesome build.

here are those photos.

Got some work done using a pattern to get the wheel openings cut out correctly to match the decals that will be placed closely to them. I printed out an image of the car and cut it out to place it on top of the model body to use as a pattern. Also cut out a copy of the decal sheet printed on white paper to see if it will fit which it seems that it will. I will put a small lip on the wheel openings which was done on the real car. Those photos will be coming soon. Ran out of time today.