MarkJ

I'm back after the 5th and 6th coats. the photos with the bottles are the 5th coat and the photos without the bottles are the 6th coat. I'm already seeing reflections in the paint, and I haven't started polishing yet. If you look closely, you can see the reflections of the bottles in the side of the model.

Started painting yesterday. The first photo below is after the first coat. I forgot to take a picture after the second coat, so the second picture is after the third coat. the 3rd picture is after the fourth coat. I just put on the 5th coat and the coverage finally got to looking like something was happening. I'm hoping the sixth coat might be the last. I started out with too wide a brush. The narrower brush did a much better job for coverage. I decided to add a drop of retarder and a drop of silver to the recipe to improve the flow of the paint and also give it just a hint of a metallic look. This began on the 5th coat. hope to get those photos on soon.

Looking Fine. These baby's always look better with the proper tires and wheels.

Since they never ran this thing in Nascar or Trans Am, I dont think i will be picking one up any time soon. Cmon, Mike, this can't be near as hard as that Corvette was to build. You've got this.

I have no words. Just pray for his family and loved ones to get through this difficult time. He will be missed by all of us very much.

Thanks. Pierre. Your guidance has been much appreciated through this journey to freedom from rattle cans and airbrushes. Which I really never want to go back to.

Got the final sanding with the 12000-grit done and will try the color coats tomorrow. I will have to keep reminding myself "light coats, Mark". "Light coats". I always put the paint on to thick and regret it. So again, "3 light coats, Mark and see what you have". I'm so used to spraying Tamiya and the first coat usually gives you pretty good coverage. This paint is so thin you have to do light brush coats and let it build up to give you proper coverage. You have to be patient.

I think I will find a bottle about the size of the primer bottle and strain the whole bottle into it, and then clean the original bottle and strain it again back into the original bottle. That should hopefully take care of the grit. The sanding is coming along pretty good, so it shouldn't be too much longer to get that beautiful blue you came up with on it. Hopefully I can get rid of the brush marks this time, so the sanding and polishing with the Novus will give me the results I'm looking for.

I need to get a paint strainer. That gray Vallejo primer has a lot of grit in it. I bought it from micro mark. Maybe it has been sitting on a shelf there for ten years before they sold it to me. Pierre, what brand of primer do you use? Is it gritty by any chance?

Got the primer on. Thinned it 20 percent with distilled water. Seemed to go on much smoother. I think I messed up on the hood and I think I will need putty after all, where the fender ornaments go. Will see how the sanding with 6000,8000, and 12000 goes Tomorrow. And see what needs to be corrected. Will definitely have to put at least one more coat on. Hoping for better results with less overall paint so I don't get rid of detail like the door, hood, and trunk opening grooves.

Wow, you're moving right along, and the cage looks perfect. I don't think the one in Walmart is like this kit.

Loved the movie but the story line and the acting other than James Caan was pretty weak. Caan played Mike Marsh who was in Lorenzen's #28, and some unknown actor played Ned Arp who was in Juniors #27. Mr. Zulu from Star Trek was a crew guy for Mike Marsh. I bet you could get a lot of good reference photos from screen captures from that movie. They had a race car with a camera made into the Left front fender for a camera car at the Daytona 500. Got some real good shots of real Nascar racing with that car. A movie way ahead of its time on the technical side of things. I guess no money was left over to pay for good actors. Even Caan wasn't very well known when the movie was made. The crew chief for Mike Marsh was a well-known character actor from that time but I don't know his name.

That roll cage is looking spot on, Jason. Do you have the box from the kit so we can see exactly what kit it is. Walmart is selling a 69 Charger and if it's the same I will have to pick me up one of those.

The fender flares are finished so I can begin sanding the body. I believe I will do the brush painters sanding trilogy and apply 6000,8000 and 12000 grits before priming. I've already removed all the mold lines and other stuff. I might need to hit it with something rougher first. I shall see.

Thanks, Bill. I have yet to find a good interior shot of Ned's 64 Ford. But I will definitely look into that material. Looks like it would have worked good for Juniors 63 chevy and probably a lot of other cars of that time frame.

I figured you did. You could almost see yourself in that primer and I think it contributed to the fabulous paint job you achieved.

I believe you nailed it, Pierre. I have all of those ingredients for the recipe. Now all I have to do is get it on the model correctly. I'm going to really concentrate on getting the primer very smooth like you did with your Corvette. It seems like any flaw in the primer will show through to the paint. Thank you for helping me out with this. I'm sure mine would not have come out near as close as this does.

If I could just get close to this color, I would be happy. They say its Guardsman Blue. The chip is probably more accurate then the photo of the car. Wherever light hits it, it will change dramatically.

Thanks Pierre and Bill. I'll see if I can google a real car painted in that color and see what it looks like. As usual, every color ref picture I find of Ned's 64 ford looks different depending on the conditions around the car when it was being photographed.

I need to go back and read better. Those funnels and screens are amazing, and I agree, I like the brass color better than silver.

Pierre, I might need some of your expertise with that recipe. I had a pretty good one for the Corvette Grand Sport interior I did. Just needs to be darker.

More work on the fender flares and added putty to them. Most of the putty will be sanded off. They are small lips created to get the tires in place easier. Also sanded down the front fender ornaments. I used them as filler instead of putty. Also finished where the exhaust protrudes through the body. Getting close to primer time and then making a paint recipe for the body. I'm thinking a dark blue metallic, but not a strong metallic just not an opaque dark blue.

Starting on the wheel openings and where the exhaust came through the body. Used a 1/25 scale photo to locate it. you can see the door edges line up with the model. However, the model is a little too short front and rear. nothing I can do about that. Looks like I might have to do a, do over, on the rear wheel openings. They look a little too low. Lucky to have found this profile picture of the car. Too bad I don't know how to make driver figures. I have Ned there from the shoulders up in scale.

Love the screens on the air funnels. Did they come in the kit? That looks like a 1:1 engine I'm looking at.

Mystery solved. I decided to look at my other models and saw the Foyt 64 firecracker winner and noticed the grey rock decal had white lettering and it was rectangular and not big and round like it had been earlier in the season. I studied the photo I made and sure enough that was it. Apparently, sometime in the summer they changed the logo to what you see. I will clean up my earlier decal and print a supplement sheet of them and just not use the Solder Seal decal.