Venom

Gosh John, reading of your loss brought a tear to my eye as I’m a huge lover of cats and can personally relate to your experience. I had a cat named Kira since I was a little kid and had to put her down when I was in my early twenties. I remember how empty my heart felt. I think Tao looks like a great cat, and by the looks of the pictures it appears he’s feeling right at home with his new best bud. Your post has inspired me to start a new one titled ‘Show us your cat’, so if you want to see my current two you’ll have to check them out there.... here’s to wishing you and Tao a long and rich companionship!

Criticisms...are you kidding!? That’s an absolute stunner! Of course I’m also a sucker for green. Its a beautiful race car done up very well?

Baa baa blacksheep

and garbage bags

Yes, it would get grandma upset

pits like tumbleweeds

I’m not referring to that particular color. Simply saying that any color paint job could have turned out looking much nicer than the wrap. Basically as stated in my initial response.

Very nice Kurt! Congrats on the finishing your build... Looking forward to those Under Glass picks.

their hairy armpits

Team Tumbleweed Racing

Looking closely at the picture certainly verifies for me that paint could have achieved much nicer results, but the guy who did it deffinately deserves credit for what must have required an immense amount of patience. I’m curious if he has any hankering to do it again ‘?’

I don’t think I could sit in the same room while somebody was exercising with that thing!

Wow, that’s for ED?!! Looks like I’ve been missing some stuff here

Where is that???

Howabout Big Willow?

on Nurburgring instead

Instead giant pandas

This is awesome Kurt... and a great sense of humor displayed in your work as well. Very entertaining! Just a thought.... Have you thought about some randomly slapped on stickers for the cooler?

I wasn’t taking offense, but rather somewhat amazed that a metal type wrap was done on what I assume to be a plastic model, since that’s what your club is. All the metal/chrome looking vinyls I’ve handled are either quite stiff or thick for the ones that do have flex. Maybe they are producing super thin types now that I was unaware of. It would be nice to see some good up close pics of the car, but still, like you said, the point made is that it CAN be done...even with vinyl types that I thought would be the most impossible.

because there weren’t

Wow! Well I guess I was wrong about everything.

for fourty-nine laps

I’ve had a lot of experience with vinyl over the years, mostly making patterns and cutting out decals for various things. I’ve only used vinyl on model cars for very small subtle details...usually parts that I want to make look like metal. After watching the video here are my thoughts: He chose matte black vinyl... From my experience, the thinnest and most flexible vinyl I’ve found is the matte black, which would obviously make it easier to conform around the tight corners on small model cars. A lot of vinyl is noticeably thicker and less flexible than the matte black, which would make it a miserable choice for wrapping small model bodies. Also, he used a metal car which means you can handle it with more applicable force when pushing out air bubbles etc. You would have to be very careful if you were doing this on a typical plastic model. Vinyl can be made to conform around curves better by using a heat gun, but this would not be an option on a plastic model because you would warp or melt it. Lastly, he was in effect, masking off everything and carefully trimming edges, (at last look, he was at 2 hrs. 27 min.) When painting a model car one of the most time consuming parts of the job is the prep work and masking. In the amount of time it took him to wrap his, you could do an intricate masking job and lay it out with paint and have more professional looking results. With my experience with vinyl, there is no way I’d consider doing a vinyl wrap over paint if I wanted impressive finished results. Paint simply has so much more versatility, color possibilities, and workability on this scale. That’s just my two cents.

at Leguna Seca

Thank you Trevor...the compliment is encouraging.