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Pierre, that purple really pops. Your mask job is superb. Cant wait for the final paint job reveal.

I will let you know how good the liquid mask works tomorrow. If not, I have a lot of work ahead of me fixing this. The liquid mask dries clear so you can't really see it in these pictures. I just hope it comes off easy.

Pierre, yes, the reference you used is much different than the one shown with the super high rise intake. So I think you are good to go with what your doing. Yours is totally correct, so no need to even think about changing it.

I don't know where you would find a single plane hi rise manifold like that. Looks like the air cleaner is part of the hood.

Got the decal sheets printed. Not that great, but they will fit correctly on a 1/25 scale car. Printed extras if I have to double up on the white ones. Going to be painstaking work cutting these little babies out.

Now i can see why you went electric. Thats a huge savings. i'm sure down here in the states it would cost a lot more for a charge. The car itself is a little pricey, I have heard. Like the new Silverado all electric is 100 grand. The gasoline company's down here are fighting hard to keep us from going electric.

My attempts to get the Vallejo red the right shade failed, so I will use Creatix bright red instead. I also have some Creatix black and white so i will use those too. The Creatix paint went on pretty good with a brush so I'm hoping it will polish out well too.

Painted the side with Vallejo crimson red. It's a little to orangee red so I will go back and mix a little light blue in it to cool it down to a more cherry red. I figured I would paint the sides red and the roof white first then liquid mask and paint the black middle portions last and see what happens. Then the fun part, polishing. Which I really dislike immensely.

Have any trouble finding charging stations? Or do you just stay close to home? Hopefully in the future everybody will be driving electric, or we will all be wearing oxygen tanks on our backs. Luckily, I'm too old to worry about it.

Wow, Mini Cooper Electric. I bet that is fun. Is it all electric or does it have a backup gas deal.

Looking awesome Pierre. Hope you're enjoying you new car. Care to divulge what you purchased. Maybe share some pictures so we can all be jealous.

Thanks Martin . I'm not really fond of bare metal foil anymore. It doesn't adhere very well to do the job it was intended for, much less masking. And its kinda expensive as a masking tape. Its just not the same product it used to be. And of course that's just my humble opinion.

Thanks, Ian.

Thanks, Pierre. I bought it some where . It looks like a pencil with a metal tip. you can also use the back side of a number eleven exacto blade, I have decided to use the gray vallejo primer for the red and black areas. It seems to cover better then the white. The Vallejo primer is very hard to sand compared to the aerosol Tamiya primers. But I am staying true to brush painting everything. I really dislike aerosol cans and I am really not fond of airbrushes. Cleaning them is not fun and neither is using them.

Thanks, Bill. I'm kinda turning a 67 into a 66. Don't look too closely after its finished. There are a couple of things that are way off, but i'm not telling anybody what they are. It's still going to look more like a 66 then a 67 and my chances of getting a 66 kit was zero. I'm trying to build as many Southern 500 winners as I can. Especially from the fifty's and sixty's. So far I have the 54,55,56,57,58,59,63, and this will be the 66 winner. I have the kits to do the 64 winner but it will be one of these cut and paste cars.

Got the first primer session done. I need to block sand and see if I can remove any voids that I missed with the first sanding. The primer brings out the faults you didn't know that you have. I will use a scribe on the trunk and door seams so they don't go away from the primer sessions I might have to use. A primer session is when you mix some primer in the pallet and keep going around the model till you use up what you have prepared. A session lasts until you get the opacity you need to do the block sanding. I did about 5 of these in the first primer session. it shouldn't take as many in the second session. This Vallejo primer is very thin when it is thinned out and not very opaque when applied. that is what makes you have to keep filling the pallet chamber until you feel the session is over. If the body was white, I'm sure the session would not take as long. This body is gray. I need a white primer surface to paint the white roof, or it will turn out looking light gray.

Thanks, Jason. I was able to find these too. For a museum car its mostly correct. I think they got the color too dark for the red on the body and the wheels at the Southern 500 were white, not silver. The upper and lower grilles are not correct either. They used stock comet grilles instead of the Cyclone grilles. My grilles won't be correct either,. But they will be close enough for government work. My dad used to love to say that all the time. He worked for the Federal government.

Thanks, Pierre. Yes I am hoping the liquid mask works out for me. I am always masked challenged when it come to masking tape. I can never get a crisp line between the colors. I'm hoping the liquid mask adheres better then the tape and it peels off leaving a nice concise line between the colors. And none of the paint sneaks under the mask like it does with tape. We shall see.

Sounds good, James. Have a great evening. 25 years is very special. Our fiftieth is coming up in 2023. If the Lord is willing and i'm still here.

I just need to smooth the areas around the headlights and maybe install some small .020 rods along the top and bottom of the center panel that runs between the upper and lower grilles. Looks like there was something like that before the front end damage that happened during the race. After that I will sand the whole body and prime it. then I will do the three tone paint job. I bought some liquid mask I want to try to hopefully get a sharper line between the different colors of paint. Aircraft guys use it when doing camouflage paint jobs, and it appears to do a good job. Apparently you just peel it off when you're through painting.

Thanks, James. I really appreciate the positive comments and I'm sure Pierre does too. I would really like to see Doug and Randy's work. Do you have any links?

Also red in this picture but headlights are silver. This might have been at Firecracker 400

This picture shows the car before the front end damage occurred. You can see the center bar between the two grilles was red.

Reference picture for this model.