Technics

Spent a good hour trial and error masking the rear lamps until I was satisfied with the line. This is some of first times I am experiencing success with masking. I am very pleased. I glued in all the windows, lamps, and applied more decals.

Dual Fuel tanks sprayed gloss black and fused into chassis. Misted Tamiya primer onto the two main body parts and began to close the hole / gap made visible between the wide fender flairs and main body with puddy. I will work on removing mold seams lightly as I’ve done the medicore hood pins / latches and try to avoid any fine scratch left.

Rally fever. I’m thinking of opening up the boot lid and hinging the doors on this one. Would be a first for me. Oh and simulate the actual car Colin rolled on this rally and continued travelling 10/10ths completing the event.

@niteowl7710 nice finds. What are kit prices like now in person? Cash I presume? From a person or a registered hobby shop?

BMF - My brain has a larger appetite then my physical skills but I tried my best. Gold plated fire wall detail with BMF that will be mostly hidden by the motor. Complex surfaces and small space to work with.

I further test and mocked up more accurately how the front lamp will sit in the body. The lens is not finished yet. Note the scale in the photo with the Q tip and foglamp reflector. I am really excited by how it will look. I find you don’t see many going through the effort of doing lamps. In a lineup of cars it’ll drastically stand out. For the better in my opinion! I’ve also soldered it to a battery box to test that a physical switch works. Next will be soldering all the lamps together with their respective resistors and see how it works with a remote.

@MarkJ Thank you. That’s funny I never thought of the way you described it. No it’s no photo tricks and no it’s not me either! It was just found inspiration references I’m aiming for or inspired by for now. I wish I was that clever! Thanks for the encouragement! @Pierre Rivard I am going for a mix of Both. It will be a single colour race car. Like modern day Lister Bell replica builds. Some days I wake up thinking about the Aitalia and other liveries to help aid my lack of final top coat skills but for now the citrus plan I’m sticking to! Thanks for the encouragement!

I had a strike of luck with how the window trim turned out. Never had it turn out this good I first tried hand brushing it with a XF paint. Awful results. I cleaned for 30 minutes with X20A. Got great results with New tape, new blade, new paint and a new can of TS Flat black. I used a new product AK crystal magic for bonding the clear parts quickly and well. It will be a new favourite. The kit comes with a few trees of unused parts for the different variants they released. I mistakenly did an incorrect wrong rear window, will return with the correct rear window and move onto lamps and finally some light weathering!

I mocked up the complete frame to body again and taped in the fuel tanks. The dual side fuel caps protrude the body nicely. I just love the overall look and fit. Once they’re painted and permanently glued I will increase the hole slightly to always get clearance when closed.

All four tested. I like the bottom two best. Maybe my transition into airbrush will be sooner then later.

I preliminary decided on going with a yellow colour. More lemon then orange. I will test a yellow primer, Tamiya TS, and maybe airbrush a XF-3, Amarillo Soleado by Vallejo as I have all of them and I have ambitions of becoming airbrush proficient. I aim to ‘road weather‘ the finish so I may avoid any gloss coat obsessing as I’ve always done.

Paint went on ok. Sadly of course with some setbacks - lines aren’t perfect and the liquid mask attacked the clear some places more then others. Nothing comes easy in this hobby. I’ll try another method next time. It’ll be the first 1:24 model l will complete in 20 years after all. Onward and upward. I began gluing on some details.

Project materials and a holy grail kit for me in 1:12 scale.

Fused the rear frame to chassis and shot two coats of primer black. I removed the molded in hood pins with some newly arrived sanding pads.

@Rich Chernosky Hi! Thank you. No I didn’t pickup the detail up kit.. This kit was an unplanned purchase that was too good to pass up on auction locally. I have some detail up kits for future builds but I always struggled with justifying extra content for a kit as the base kit will be littered with mistakes, accidents and material expiration ?? against my will of course. I masked the rest of the body and shot flat black by Vallejo.

I tried to mask the complex lines twice and simply did not have the confidence to continue with the method. I will try painting these areas with with liquid mask.

I mocked up how I will do the exterior. I will have the headlamps down, lamp pod on, no roof scoop. I misted the rear frame in primer before I fuse it to the chassis as i come to an end to exterior colour choice as I decided I simply can´t see "another" Aitalia livery. Although I have never made one myself, I´ve seen it my lifetime decided it is not for me.

@Mattilacken Midnattsolrally? I am yet to see one in person but I “seen” them my entire life. So special and characteristic these are!

@Funkychiken Small auxiliary parts that won´t interfere during final assembly I am gluing in, I prefer to work later with hand brushing. I will not glue in the motor or the suspension strut / hubs / brakes into the frame. they are a glued assembly however. I´ve reached a limit now though as the remaining parts are to be installed once a motor is fused into the frame so I will begin to primer. @absmiami The entire kit is a bit beyond my skill level where I would like to see it end up, realistically "running condition" weathered but I have to do it here and now. I absolutely love the subject car!

I am surprised how well everything fits together. I have not worked with resin kits before. I have had many poor or vintage plastic kit experience however This feels like a new era of kits.

More engine parts and rear subframe got fused together and made into sub assemblies.

I cleaned the rear frame of printing material supports. First mock up of the frame and body got me excited

I cleaned the rear frame of printing material supports. First mock up of the frame and body got me excited

I spent the better half of two evenings slowly scribing, cutting, etching away at the rear clamshell. I am used to 1:10 Lexan projects so this was a real challenge. I’ve built up a patience callous so I rather enjoyed the process but it took some time. I glued in the wide rear fenders after a few deep scribing passes of the plastic underneath. I am going to look into very fine dentistry tools for scribing. Old news to many probably but new to me, would’ve been nice to have more options to use as tools. I have a few scribbers and a practice of using a new blade for the beginning of any new project. PS I am on holiday hence the new project with both minimal tools and setup. The psycho casually reading a instruction manual for a Lancia Stratos in transit was me ?

Some gems from the inspiration folder below.