Donny

Thanks Stu. Yep I think I might give it a rest for today. The Merc I'm quite happy with right now. The build has been a bit of a challenge, AMT just put too much Cr*P in the kit. Tape recorders, Phone, Tv, it just gets too confusing. I've just got back to it, the bonnet hinges had one broken when I took it from the box, so I need to repair that finish the interior and DONE! The bonnet fix is tiny and fragile, so if I'm successful with the fix, it will need to sit probably until tomorrow to make sure it is fixed and solid.

The paint is a sort of iridescent (spelling?), I thought it was a solid colour when I did the spoon test, that's what it looked like, probably because of my poor eyesight. I think I might be better off to sand it back and try another colour - repaint it completely. Not strip it, sand it back and maybe should I give it another light coat of primer and then colour.

At the moment, not sure, the rest of the car looks okay quite a good finish. I was going to polish it and see how it looked, then decide on the clear coat. I'm close to the point where I think I should drop this, I'm getting negative about it.

I thought I might be able to as you have advised, lay a coat over the bad patch, and try to polish it in. Does that make sense? Don

Thanks Stu, I really have messed this one up. Tamiya TS51 Racing blue

Painting/finishing is my Achilles heel, not so much the polishing normally, but paint, aaaahhhhhh!!!

I abandoned the Chev for now, after another paint mishap. I got back to the Merc and got into the polishing, I think it's now ready to do the interior and finish it off. The body is about as good as I can get it (for me). I already fixed the scratch on the LHF door, the other marks are BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH on my phone lens. Just hope that the rest goes together okay. Don

SO, I guess when it goes wrong, it really goes wrong. Managed to get the Impala repainted but not without an error, the paint on the roof (this time), LHR was not good, being polite here. so I took to it with the W&D and you guessed it, yep through to the primer, I'm being polite calling myself DH. Please check the pic and tell me it's repairable. Thanks. The good news is I polished the Mercury and it's looking okay. Don

Thanks Stu, I did a bit of work(sanding) whilst I was waiting for isop to come, so hopefully won't take too long. Don

Hi Alan, thanks for the welcome, just might take you up on that offer at some stage. I'm in Queensland - Brisbane, the hot steamy end of the country.

Hi Stu, Isop should be here today, had to order it in, unfortunately couldn't go out to get it, I'll let you know how it goes. In the meantime, I did the RX7 windscreen tint band, I couldn't get the old stuff off, did the best I could, not sure if you saw that post. I tried to send you a PM but for whatever reason, the system said I couldn't. Don

Great job mate, looks beautiful Don

Just wish the whole car had turned out like this...........

Thanks guys, I'll tackle it in the morning, Mummy said I have to go to bed 🤣 Don

Better shot right way up

Run into a problem guys. I've got these terrible pin BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH spots around the wheel arch and along one of the body trims. So, is this too much paint? I've started to rub the paint back as you can see and in places I'm down to the primer. My question is, rub it back more and then add primer, add rub the whole body back and reprime. Opinions please. What I have been doing is for color, two light coats and then a heavy/wet coat, is this correct? Thanks Don

Shifty, but has a lot of merit 😄

I did, bought two more kits today🙄🤫Got a bit of time to work out where to hide them. 😁 Don

Yes I know where you are coming from, I got the "no more kits" from my wifey the other day, I'm now looking for a hidey hole, I've run out of fibs to use, she's heard them all. 🙄 Don

Been looking for the Liquid Blue for my Ford GT (Tamyia) but the Tamyia Liquid Blue is way too dark nothing like they show on the box. Where did you get the paint ? Don

I need one frequently Don

Smashing mate, just beautiful Don

Questions? I'm glad I bought the large economy size box. I've asked a million and still have three quarters of the box left. hey, love the family portrait, and no I'm not being a smartie, we have six dogs, all family Don

Thanks Elliot, lots of good advice mate. So, early on in the build the major parts are sort of assembled, the small parts, intricate stuff, suspension etc come later in the mock - up. I need to build some stuff I can post here, for practice and experience, mate thanks heaps for your advice, and the pics are great, gives me some idea of what you are saying. I'm at the kit box stage as you would have already worked out 😄and to a certain extent having some hassles there. I'm finding out not everything fits as it should, all good experience. Thanks again Don

oops pics