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very nice Eric, looks great. Don

Pretty much finished the body today, three coats of TS13 clear. Left it in the oven for a few hours, hopefully good now. Let me know what you think guys. Should I polish or leave well alone? Don

Geez Stu, next spring for colour. Mate you need a heated shed so you can keep building. Only frogs can Donlive in that climate.

Got back to the imperial today and shot the clear coat. Think it turned out okay. Paint I'm trying to master and not finding it easy. Few pics for your comments, not super good pics but best I could do. Don

Looking good Eric, great progress. Nice body color, what is it?

Okay, here is the front seats of the RX7. The left seat I brushed, the right seat is air brushed. The original plan was to have the seats two colors, the center as you see it, and the outer surround in a darker blue, I didn't like the dark blue so have opted to just do them one color. I didn't expect to see the brushed seat a different shade to the airbrushed one. Putting the shade/color aside, I prefer the finish on the airbrushed seat, and I noticed it is more a matt finish than the brushed hand painted one, which has more gloss even though it's all out of the same pot. Is this normal? The difference is streets apart, so I guess it's air brushing from now on, and masking. Don

First seat brush painted for the RX7, not happy, but did turn out slightly better than I expected. Later today I going to try airbrushing the other seat. Don

Thanks Gary, once again I'm confused. To me the body lines that I use my scriber tool on are like grooves in the body fairly deep , the mold lines are either flush/marked or fractionally raised. the body lines I have to work and increase the depth to allow for paint, not the sure the correct procedure for body/mold lines, so I'll do as you suggest and pencil them. To me, the mold lines I have always thought to be the raised things left by the injection process and should be sanded flat? Correct me if I'm wrong with all this, I'm still learning. Don

Great looking trims Steve mostly airbrushed I take it. Really stunning. Don

Nice mate, looking good. Don

i have seven kids, three girls are mine four boys I inherited when Shaz and I got married. And they all talk a load of Sh*t. i have fourteen grand kids, no wonder I'm a bit gaga. Right back to models. I use the Tamiya primer, thanks for the tip on the Vallejo wash.

I should say they were, I have painted one out. Also, here is a weird one for you. I sprayed the body - Tamiya Fine Surfacer Primer just before dinner, and when I came back it had a crack in the body LH rear. No I didn't do it, nothing in that spot to scribe. Quite bazaar. Actually there is two, one at the front as well.

are you talking about the lines on the roof, Les. The lines on the roof of my car are so shallow I can't get a scriber tool on them, they are flush with the roof like paint. Years ago I had a RX2 that had lines like that on the roof, something to do with how they were made.

thanks mate. We don't have any rug rats at home anymore. They're off terrorizing other families. My life is peaceful right now, my wife is visiting her mother, I'm like the movie - home alone.😁

Thanks Luke, I thought you meant the bottles too.

Hey Stu, should I prime the seats first, I just painted one and the coverage is pretty average. They are black seats. Don

Thanks John. Yeah, tonight I'll try thinning and see how that goes. The RX7 will be Pearl Blue exterior, and the seats will be dark blue on the outside and a lighter blue in the middle. just to make it easy. I was going to mask the centres and airbrush the outsides, and just brush paint the centres, but I hate masking, so bloody fiddly. Guess we'll see, I'll let you/show you, the outcome, providing I don't completely mess it up. And brushes, I have a heap, I used to do a lot of water colour painting, so have a couple of dozen. Don

Thanks Anton. On some Japanese cars, I have seen two stripes on the roof like joins, which they might be. I've never enquired, should have done, had a mate who worked in a Mazda dealership. It's obviously a manufacturing thing, maybe Mazda made the roof in three pieces and they are joins. But they definitely aren't panel lines you use a scriber on, and they aren't the usual mold lines. Don

Never heard of panel wash, learn something new everyday. My problem with those panel lines is they actually aren't there, they are like lines on the roof, no depth nothing to follow and I have just realised maybe they aren't panel lines, they aren't like the ones for the doors maybe I was supposed to paint them, why would they have panel lines on the roof? DUH! 🙄😂

I've just spent an hour and a half trying to do the panel lies in the roof. They are so faint and shallow, almost impossible. I've given up, even trying to do them with one of my wife's sewing needles, I can't get them to run right. I'm going to sand them out, it's not a show car. That wavy roof sure is putting me to the test. don

Thanks Stu, so Tamiya paint, Tamiya thinners? I'm using mainly Tamiya at the moment, Luke (Coolhand), suggested I stick with Tamiya until I get more experience with paint, so I've stuck with mainly Tamiya with a bit of Vallejo thrown in. Don

More advice please - brushing acrylic or any paint for that matter. can one of you guys/gals, give me the secret to brushing. I am at the point where I have some smaller parts that I can't airbrush. Anything I try to brush turns out terrible, brush strokes and/or rough finish. Is warming the paint to improve the flow enough. Help thanks. Don

Thanks Chris, I was looking for those earlier. They were packed in a small envelope, in with the tyres, which was why I couldn't find them. Why they put them in there? Thats why I missed them. Thanks Don

Thanks Les, I'll check it out.

Thanks Chris, but the wheels seat against the disk, the wheel and the disk are flat