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Awe ya!

Second that. Even outside. Learned that the hard way when a gust of wind came out of nowhere and I ended up painting my face instead. Horrible news. Best wishes to him and his family.

LMAO. Memorabilia is memorabilia. Good job on the tire.

Darnnit Rob, you killed the irony with your rational explanation! Once did a job in Vancouver in an open construction site about this time or year and I was wearing just a sweater and t-shirt and even that was getting too warm. Rained a lot but I think Vancouver is a breath-taking city. Clean too! Even smelled nice... but apparently there's a neighborhood where the homeless and junkies poo on the needle littered sidewalks. Needless to say I doubt it's listed in the travel brochures.

What's going on here? Alabama and Georgia is getting hammered with the white stuff while up here in the "Great White North" there is no white stuff for the Olympics!? The Snow Birds might be coming from the other side of the border if this keeps up.

Had to give up at the second red flag of the Pothole 500. The ladies hate to be kept waiting on Valentines day. In hind site, I should have canceled and watched that fantastic finish. At least then I would have gotten some kind of thrill that night.

Shiny!

A nice finish with a lot of details added. It would look really nice with some fantasy decals homemade or otherwise.

Looking good with the right touches in the right places.

That is looking good.

Mmm, Grabber Orange good! The boss decals are a nice touch.

It took me some trial and error to come up with a decent technique. I work with acrylic paints (Tamiya) because they clean up easy and Model Master is a brand many swear by. If your local hobby shop has a Tamiya rack, it probably has some Tamiya brushes. Try their fine brush. I use it for my itty-bitty work and I've never cussed using that brush. I think I dropped $8 on it, but it's still as good as new one year later. Stir before using for best results. If the bottle of paint starts to get glorpy (or too thick n' chunky), thin it out to the consistency of melted ice cream or whatever looks about right. When you bush the paint on, try lightly dipping your brush in some thinner first. Then when you put your brush on the detail to be painted, it should just flow off the bristles all over the raised detail or small part. I find it makes the paint job look way smoother when it "flowed" off the bristles. With that said, use the right size brush for the job size. Few strokes as possible. For bigger jobs, I spray with a rattle can, but for some stuff that may be impractical to hit with a rattle can could be brushed on in several thin layers. Gloss colors are a sinch, metallics can be a pain, flat black will almost always look brushed on and rough in large amounts. This is what works for me. Good luck! Nathan

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Love that color.

Peterborough, eh? My old stomping grounds. What's there for hobby shops these days?

The guy at my LHS said it was to be mixed in with gloss colors to dull them out. which it did with good results, though I too just winged it so I don't know the exact science either. Glad you brought this up because I want to try it with the Tamiya Acrylic Clear and see if I can mix-up a brushable dull coat.

Orange is one of those wonderful, almost transparent colors. Make sure your primer/surface is perfect and evenly white and just mist it on one coat at a time until you're happy with the coverage. Light and bright colors are thin in general so they run really easy. Mist coats over perfectly white primer coats are key with those types of colors in my experience.

Tree Hugger Dave posted an awesome tutorial just for spray cans. If you're spraying from cans you can expect a bit of pebbling/orange peel. I usually hold my cans a foot away for mist coats and half a foot for the wet coat. If the wet coat covered well, I don't spray another. I spray hobby lacquers so I give anywhere from 5 - 15 minutes if I need another wet coat. If I spray while the last coat is still sopping wet I'll dimple the paint like a golf ball. Also cold weather causes rashing orange peel and fish eyes too. Either way, a good rattle can job may require some wet sanding and polishing afterwards. If you haven't, make sure you wet sand your primer coat smooth. And then try wet sanding your color/wet coats smooth. That could be another cause too. If the coat your spraying on top already has orange peel, the next coat will too.

Well put! A couple buddies and I used to build models when we were teenagers as a distraction from being helplessly bored and frustrated in rural Ontario. Those who didn't have hobbies, sports or dirt bikes as something constructive to channel their energies usually got into drugs, hard drinking and trouble with the law that still follows them well into adulthood. As an adult, picking the hobby back up has been great distraction from life's little trivial things. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Good old CHCH coming at ya from The Hammer. The show was at its best when it was produced by CHCH. The CBC kind of butchered it a bit by making it too slick, but at least it was still Red, Harold and the rest of the Possum Lodge.

When it comes to high school exams don't sweat them. I never studied beyond reading my class notes... that is when I took notes and not wondering what the blond in front of me looked like her without cloths on. Graduated high school and went on to college. High school seems tough right now, but it's going to be a cake walk compared to what life has in store.

Second that. Tamiya is your best bet.

That's what I like in Tamiya sprays in general. So easy to work with, you only have to be in the same room. If I could buy TS-13 in bulk I would. And it doesn't take more than a coat or two to get the result you're looking for. Outside of a very light wet sand, Bob is right on about the Tamiya compounds making quick work of it. Also works good for setting decals in small amounts. Anything with the Tamiya name is probably going to be good. Try their wax as a finish after you polish and it just brings out an incredible luster. Just be ready to shell some coin. The bottle is small, but a little bit goes a long way.

Rush -- now that's what I'm talking about!