OldNYJim

That's a pity - I'd be a regular purchaser of the Tamiya paints if they carried them too...nowhere local stocks them and they don't tend to be economical to purchase online compared to off-the-shelf prices...

Great save! The new paint looks GREAT!

My local store finally caught up to the clearance deal everyone else is running on the paint - shelves were pretty much stripped clean of all the really useful stuff, but still managed to bring a bunch of “that’ll be useful someday” colors home with me...

Might work well for carpets or interior pieces that need a subtle 'grain' or texture to the look of them

Ohh, those all look invaluable! To the library! Thanks Bill!

Oh, I've totally been doing that - my bad :D

I’m gearing up to start working on an MPC Rat Trap Chevy Vega modified here, and whilst I’ve worked on and raced some of the lower classes round the short ovals I’ve never really messed with the cooler (and older) stuff... Here’s what I’m working on: I spent a couple of afternoons doing some research but I never really found much in the way of detailed pics of this exactly style of car - lots of stuff way older or way newer but not much in between. Lots of old race photos and trackside stuff but less really useful references for exactly what I’m trying to build. Anyone got any good resources or hints and tips on building a pavement modified like this? Want to learn some stuff!

Got some clear laid down - had a relatively low-humidity day today so got 4 coats on my trike build: And I’ve really been wanting to build an oval car so I pulled an MPC Rat Trap off the rack and started puzting with that: As usual, I was thinking “meh, I’ll build it stock and see how it goes” and then mocked it up and found 10 things I want to replace right off the bat ?

Thanks fellas! These kits are fun! Finished up the bulk of the work on the painting today - I’d been saving up a few day’s worth of photos to make for a decent update... Once the silver was laid down, along with a barrier coat, I designed some masks: Cut and applied them... And then shot a gunmetal silver: Followed by some solid black for some subtle little low-lights: Then, peeled off the masks and had something roughly like this: Now, my intention for this paint-job isn’t really for all this stuff to stand out as much as it does now - more to be hidden layers under one primary color. So, to bury it all, I shot Createx candy red...: Including the frame, which is just straight up candy red without any graphics: And then, after a day or two to dry I then layered all of THAT with a coat of clear with Pearl-Ex red flake, then a clear with Pearl-Ex gold followed by a coat of Testors rainbow flake to add a little visual interest in the sunlight. With all that done (wow, we’re up to 10 layers all in at this point), time for four nice healthy coats of clear to help level everything out and bury all those different flakes: Kinda hard to see all those cool color changing flakes in photos, but you can see some of the gold flip on the gas tank here in the sun, and how the Testor’s rainbow flake is flipping to a purple color in the shot above I think I’ve pretty much hit what I was trying to achieve - something that looks plain old candy red from a little further away but with some little details to spot as you get closer, and a bunch of little sparkles and flakes and stuff to jump out if you look even closer. Parts are in the dehydrator now waiting for the next step...needed plenty of clear to bury the lumpy flakey surface so I’ll give it some extra time to dry before polishing it, but I’m excited to start hanging some bits off the frame to see how it looks all together! More soon!

I really like how those arches look on there! WAY cool!

I don’t know exactly what is happening here...but I like it! ?

I have a great addition to make to this thread... ...but I’m gonna wait until 2024 to make it ?

Way cool! I never saw one of those before!

Way cool! I want one! ?

$17.19 is more than $12 tho... ?

I wasn’t looking to have my local hobby store special order it for $34.99 when Amazon had it for $12 delivered. I WILL spend probably $50 with him today on Tamiya and Testors paints though, thus restoring my karmic balance somewhat ?

Good thing I just got new glue sticks for my glue gun! ??

This is looking GREAT! I’d definitely be interested in purchasing a copy of one of these if you were ever to consider forming any extras! Great work!

Received mine today. Firstly the box was crushed: Secondly the car on the box is blue: And the car inside it is mint green: Now I have to buy paint, and none of the pieces are attached to each other. Overall, 2/10, lousy kit, wouldn’t buy again ?? (????????)

A few little updates before the weekend... I don’t usually polish my frames but I thought I should start, so I spend an hour or so on this one this week - came out pretty nice! Need to do a little more to it, but I’m pretty pleased with it as it stands... Needed to get some ‘carpet’ on the interior parts before I get too much further so I found some speckled lime-green embossing powder in Hobby Lobby and laid that down over a neon green base (just because I HAD neon green ?) Came out nice I think, although it looks like a mini-golf course ?‍♂️? And finally, fired up the metal-roundener to to make some headlight buckets for those little AMT headlamps - they still need some clean-up and finishing off but they’ll look cool when they’re all shiny I think: More soon!

Tried applying flocking with Arleene’s Tacky Glue instead of the Elmer’s that I normally use. Arleene’s seems to be a lot stickier so I figured it would work better - and it did! Nice even coverage and no patchy bits like I always seemed to get when using paint or Elmer’s. Will definitely do it this way in future!

Unrelated, but I like that clear steering wheel Tom!

Picked up one of those Tamiya weathering sets to try out - excited to see how it works: Looks like make-up! And ordered myself an AMT 57 Chevy seeing as there’s that one thread talking about them right now: Molded in mint green, which I wasn’t expecting!

I agree with this too - although for more ‘vintage’ looking chrome I like the look of Alclad still too. Different looks completely, I think - which makes them both useful!

The weathering on that engine looks GREAT, I really like how that came out