Pierre Rivard

Chassis (minus exhaust) is completed. Engine installed and plumbed. No construction pix of underside because I basically built as is. Some mild weathering added. I'll do the exhaust at the very end with mods to remove mufflers.

Wow, that diff cooler and window net are so nice. Superb craftsmanship.

Super build Randy. The way you built and photographed it make it look so real. If I had built it for sure I would have "forgotten" the pinstripes...?

Thanks a lot guys. Putting the finishing touches and trying to figure out how to do the oil lines in tight spaces. Engine compartment should be done tomorrow.

Looking forward to seeing this. A supercar with Cortina tail lamps...yeah!

Salut Claude, Just caught up with this one. Such a wonderful custom design with show car quality. Your creativity and craftsmanship is beyond compare.My hero Bill Mitchell would be proud. Bill Mitchell was perhaps the greatest design chief, and one of the reasons I joined GM in the early 80's (stayed 35 years). His successors Irv Rybicki, Chuck Jordan and Wayne Cherry did not do so good but then again this was when the company that used to be led by engineers & designers was taken over by the bean counters. There was a ray of hope when Ed Welburn took over with Bob Lutz allowed him to work on better designs by pushing aside the accountants. I met Ed and Bob a few times and they were the real deal. Now they are gone and my hopes for GM designs are pretty slim again. Sorry for the long side story. Your model is absolutely beautiful and brought back beautiful memories form glories past.

I've only used Microset with decals and no problem with Future. Microsol is the more aggressive version right? I hope you found a way through and will present the finished model.

Looks very promising

Looks like your hard work is paying off with a good foundation for color finishing layers. I've never worked with resin so this is most instructive.

Beautiful work Chris. Are all the lines and fittings part of the kit or RB Motion stuff?

Thanks Randy. Happy with the paint but not with the carbs. The material Shapeways uses for printing these is unworkable...grainy and brittle. Anyhow, I decided to make the best of them as I declared this build a "sweat and spares" project. No fancy stuff here. I just finished the engine

Actually the race car did not have the chrome bezels, just the lexan covers fixed with screws. The way the kit is designed is cover into bezel into body. Without the bezels the covers are too small to fit into the headlamp openings. What I should have done is making a lip into the opening but I felt it would be beyond my ability with these compound curves. So I chose to de-chrome the bezels and integrate them to the body. I should have sanded them down more to blend them into the body more. My bad...

Wow, those carbs are unbelievable. I fail to understand how you can achieve so much detail at such a small scale. Blown away!

In one of these rare "I feel good about scale modeling" moments, here it goes after the second clear layer brushed on with the "secret sauce" If I polish it it might just be with Tamiya fine and finish compound as Mark suggests.

Pat, Check out Gofer decals, they have decal sheets for letters/numbers in a variety of styles & sizes. Not sure about cream but white for sure.

Beauty!

It took time and experimenting to develop a system that works, starting with surface prep all the way to clear coat, but to answer your specific question I would say yes, the retarder is the secret sauce to achieve a smooth brushed on clear coat.

Tamiya X-22 Acrylic, X-20A thinner and Acrylic paint retarder, ratios 50%, 30% and 20%

Thanks Mark. I did a very light polishing (8000 & 12000) of the primer, nothing for the color coat (I never do) and nothing yet for the clear. The last picture is after 1 coat of clear, and I brushed a second layer of clear just minutes ago. If I eventually polish that clear it will be minimal.

After first coat of clear which deepens the color. Quite happy with my color mix.

The shot was taken last night in the display cabinet. This one taken this morning with natural light from an adjacent window. Vallejo Model Color: 2 parts Dark Prussian Blue, 1 part Violet and 1 part Silver.

And we have color!

That's getting into the details. Beautiful work...as always.

I once found one at my local art supplies store but they no longer had it last year so I got my last one from Amazon.

Absolutely beautiful build. The stance is perfect and the finishes so beautiful. Just a touch of weathering...yes perfect!