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What's the ''Water-based chrome sysyem" you invested in? Simón P. Rivera Torres

That's it!, you haven't deal with them. I had twice with horrible experience, won't do again. Simón P. Rivera Torres

Someday I wll make this one!...Good luck guys! Simón P. Rivera Torres

Hey anthony, could your friend do chroming service for someone else besides you?...a phone number?...email address? Simón P. Rivera Torres

Ok Dave, this is what I like!...Awesome model!....Did you posted a thread on this one?...Is this a 1/20? Simón P. Rivera Torres

These are a couple of some I've built. Tameo Ferrari 312T 1/43 Profil 24 Porsche 962C Rothmans-1987 Le Mans Winner A couple of my Porsche Racers: #40-Starter 1988 Porsche 944 Turbo(1/43) #12 MPC Porsche 906(1/32) Chamaleon Silver-Green Arii Porsche 934(1/32) #10 Heller Porsche 962C (1/43) #59 M.A Models Porsche 914-6 GT Sebring 1971(1/43) Simón P. Rivera Torres

I hope this time we can get a MCM Forum picture. This one will be so special from what I'M reading in the webpage. Simón P. Rivera Torres

To end this update, a couple of pictures of the body and the already done parts. Simón P. Rivera Torres

This is a technique I haven't used yet in my years as a modeler, but, here I didn't have a better option here for the place of the part to be painted. I have to paint in grey this plastic bag, so, I placed bare metal foil all over in a combo with some Tamiya tape. In order to replicate the shadows and a little bit of semi gloss shine I rubbed it with little bit of oil from my forehead. Here,a couple of pictures of the completed engine where it can be seen how being the masked section. The engine from the rear. The cockpit received all the decaling, painting and bare metal detailing. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres

After spend a couple of nights in the elbow grease deparment, it's time to start to put things together. I will start from the front to the rear, passing through the cockpit. Here a couple of shots of the beatutiful chroming on this model. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres

Hey Rey, adn the rest of the band, just check out this fine tutorial videos from this Japanese Model Master. I like the way he did the carbon fiber using the mesh that comes with several of this kits in order to replicate the look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqct0IvFNMM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iJscVCN_DA...feature=related Rey, chequeate este tipo, tiene que haber cogido tremenda nota pintando en ese cuarto son mascara...jajaja . Simón P. Rivera Torres

I'm already in too. Simón P. Rivera Torres

Hi Bob, great pictures on text on the Birmingham show, one the around I've been. I would like to retunrn to it someday. As always, Bill bringing the best among the best, send my regards to him. Simón P. Rivera Torres

Thanks a lot Jeff for you comment. The model was polished last night in a long 3 intense hours period. It was real easy to polish, due to the perfect level on the clear coat, but, it was a long one, first because of the big amount of red parts to polish, and secondly, because of the large amount of the details the body has. This morning I started with the bare-metal detailing, and it will be followed tonight with the decals and some additonal painting in some parts already in red. Like you guys can see, it's a box stock, but, it feels like a high detailed model, due to the amount of detail I have to pick in order to have the most corrected period Alfa. Simón P. Rivera Torred

As it can be seen here...almost no orange peel! Test fit with the cleared parts without any sanding or polishing yet. to be continued.... Simón P. Rivera Torres

The clear coat was also applied with the same ease than the color coat. I used the Modeler's Super Clear with Finisher's Auto Clear, mixed with Modeler's Retarder thinner and some Gunze Sangyo Mr. Retarder Mild. Since I'm still with the doubt of what is that Retarder thinner for, I decied to add also the one from Gunze. The combo of all this clear, thinner, and retarder mix with the dehydrator again was suberb. It gave me a real glossy and even surface like I bever had experienced with any Lacquer clear ever. Here you guys will se the results... As it can be seen here...almost no orange peel! Test fit with the cleared parts without any sanding or polishing yet. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres

Again, there's not much, but, here some pics of the finished bodywork. It has been one the best finish I've got on a model after I airbrushed the paint, but, some problems with some old black paint inside the airbrush(or maybe in the paint), caused a delay in order to apply the clear coat. The a real nice mix of the paint-retarder gave me a so nice and even surface that I just saded it with the 4000 polishing pad. Since I was painting this with my magnifier visor, I noticed some tiny black spots that when I tried to remeved beliving it was some debris on the surface, it resulted to be somethin like the remeins of black paint and it was spreaded a little bit. Because of this I was painting and checking continouslly the surface with the visor. I could afford to paint and sand some spots with just 3 minutes waiting time!!!..obviouslly using my dehydrator. Here's how it being. Like I said before,"Ah, the magic of lacquer", because it didn't covered any detail on this model. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres

My choices are the Gunze Sangyo Mr. Surfacer 1000(a thinn and light gray primer) and the Mr. White Base, which it's another thinn flat white primer. Both come in spray or in a jar to use with the airbrush. The adavantage of any of these two is that they are really thinn and doesn't cover the details in parts as automotive primers do, even with the can that has a really nice valve that sprays like an airbrush. I haven't try a valve like this one, even the Tamiyas. Simón P. Rivera Torres

Nice!!! Simón P. Rivera Torres

Hey Rey, it's a pretty good start on another of your Ferraris. It's not the classic kind of Ferrari modeling we can see from you, but, it's good new side on your Ferrari modeling. Simón P. Rivera Torres

A close up that shows how everything matched after I removed all the panels with the first paint shoot in the parts that were covered in order to achieve a uniform color coat. Panels off!!! to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres

Not much more it's been added today to this build up, but, here I'm showing how the model being after the red coat of paint was added. Although I have to confess that I wasn't too sure about the performance of this Modeler's paint, since I did a try with a spoon and I didn't like the way it look after. I guess it was due to the fact that I used a Modeler's product I have that is labeled "Thinner retarder". From what the people of Rainbow Ten in Japan told me, this is not Thinner + Retarder, it should be labeled as simply "Retarder". Please, if someone here has more information on this I would like to be sure exactly what is this for. To resolve what I saw in the spoon and to make sure I could use this in the model, I thinned the paint first with of my model cars favorite thinners, Finisher's auto paint thinner. To this, I did a mix with this Finisher's thinner plus the Modeler's Thinner Retarder and a few drops of Gunze Sangyo Mild Retarder to about 10% of the general paint-thinner mix. This gave me one the most impressive paint flows I had experimented until now. Let's see how it performed... Here we can see how uniform this coat of paint looks with almost not orange peel. Every rail and detail it's being shown under the paint. Ahh!!!... the magic of the lacquer!!! This one remind us the look of the front on the original Batmobile of the 30' or the 40's. As can be seen here, almost no orange peel. A look under the direct sun light just to make sure. Simón P. Rivera Torres

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Hey Richard, nice pictures, indeed! Is this a model or a real car? I have a good amount of reference pictures of this car, but, I hadn't found a racer ALFA Giulietta like this one. Thanks a lot my friend. Tremendas fotos, gracias un monton. Simón P. Rivera Torres

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