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I didn't use clear, I just give another coat of the same paint. I think it was the fly spray, I could see tiny oily specks on the hood and other parts when holding them up to the light. I've cleaned everything off that I could see with a cotton bud so shouldn't have any problems now. If I use clear, I'll do the hood in case there is an issue with compatibility. I don't mind stripping the hood!

Colour it, by Pain Factory.

Yeah, they're hard to find here. The version with the yellow chevy in the link is also impassible to find.

Right then, round two! Stripped the paint but I've run out of the pink I was using. I've ordered more but will take a couple of days to post out. I think I know what caused the paint to react. There was a fly buzzing around the room last night and I used a can of fly spray to get rid of it, I'm guessing the particles from the mist settled on the body and that's what caused the paint to react. ah well, onward and upward.

Looking great. I definitely want to try this newer release, the old version I did was fun but lacks a lot of detail.

? Not a fan, then?

Went to give the car a final coat of paint and got a massive paint reaction. I have no idea why it happened, it just did. The paint was actually fine, it didn't really need another coat but I was thinking when I polish the car I'll probably rub through in places like I always do, so best give it one more layer of paint I thought. There was cissing everywhere and it wrinkled up along all the high points. Aaaaaaaaaagghghghghghghhg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Always at the last hurdle with me, story of my f*** ing life!

The highway patrol car is cool. Quite a bit of potential with a Volare wagon it seems. If Round2 did a 2 in 1 with T top wagon option I think it would do well.

Nice work, Chang. That Honda S is beautiful.

I like the blue pick-up. Looks like a mild custom from the 80's.

Yea, a dark silver would work too, but the hood might look a bit too over the top in silver, and leaving it black you end up with three different colours then. If you used silver decals you'd probably be wishing you used black instead, haha.

Absolutely beautiful. It really does look like a real car! I wonder if any engineers, the master builders who carved the moulds of these kits ever visit this forum hoping one day they will see 'The Build' that makes all their effort worthwhile and think, "My work here is done" haha!

Looks amazing. I actually like the dark blue with the dark decals. Much nicer than if you used white decals I think.

It's come a long way from the gluebomb you started with. It could pass for a fresh kit that's only been taken out of the box today.

Yeah, it's a pretty funky kit, I love it. I have painted up and assembled the rear wheel, but it doesn't fit the custom rear end.

It's a fuel millage test bottle, it comes with the kit, also the box of gauges next to it. They were in the kit, as I'm doing the custom version I decided to include them.

While detailing the custom dash, I found the steering shaft location is way too far over causing the steering wheel to touch the door card. The rake of the dashboard also causes the steering to sit too low, so I had no choice but to move the steering over and angle it up a bit, which is fine cos you can't see that far under the dash when it's in the car.

I didn't know until yesterday while having a good look through this kit that it comes with a set of front quarter bumpers. I'll dry fit them using blu-tack and see if I prefer the clean look or the added bling:)

Not too much left to do now. I painted up both custom seats, the ones in the kit which are the highbacks, and the buckets I found in my spares tin. Looking at them in the interior I'm liking the highbacks. I got the engine finished up today and it's a beast of an engine! Looks like it'll fit fine under the hood, though I may still use the hood scoop.

Looks absolutely amazing! So much detail to take in, the badges, hood hinge springs, carb filters, it really looks like a real car.

Looks great out in the sun, very sharp build.

oh, cool! I'll do a searcher for that. Would definitely like one of those in the collection.

Pink is getting some love on the forum this week it seems, haha.

Seeing as it's a custom build I'm going with the custom engine. It looks great! Even as big as it is, it looks like it will fit under the hood without cutting a hole in it. If not, it's just a matter of taking off the blower and placing the stock parts on the block, if it hits the hood just a bit I'll have no excuse then not to use the hood scoop:)

oh, I won't need to cut out the stock console, the kit comes with a custom version, I completely missed it first time round.