FujimiLover

I haven't clear-coated over bare plastic in ages. I was just wondering if anybody has done it this way, or what is the best way. When to know what color primer for certain colors? I've noticed that red on primer tends to look flat. On a previous KS model that I attempted an Italian Red on the Ferrari, I think I used gray primer first can't remember, but the end result looked a bit flat and just didn't have a nice glossy finish that I was looking for. So if doing red example, is it best to paint red over bare, or should I try white primer next time?

Yes I've built that kit before. That was the one that fell off the shelfe and broke, hence posted in the "unicorn" thread. I think the larger 1/16 scale is of the first version of this modified Testarossa and not of the second version. First one look's a little more stock than second version where as the second version look's like it was cross bread with the Ferrari F-40 as you see in your picture. You can see the F-40 resemblance more in the hard-top version than in the convertible version.

Monday or Tuesday I should be able to finally purchase those two Veilside kit's including a Nissan 180 Veilside model. I'm just simply waiting for the credit's to appear in my account and then hopefully by the weekend I'll be building again!

"Tune in for next week's episode, will george get his mojo back? Or will the evil villan strike again!?"

I'm surprised nobody around these forums is aware that there already is a service DEDICATED to chrome AND gold plating parts for model cars. Go to http://www.chrometechusa.com/ for information. They specialize in doing exactly what we're talking about here. Sure, there is a little bit of a fee, but their work is amazing. I have not yet hired their services, but I have chatted with theme a few times and their very helpfull. Let's get theme some good buisness and maybe they'll provide discounts for member of this forum?

I started a similar thread for paint booth's, but not for use in dorm rooms. My best suggestion is if your paint booth is portable, to take it outside weather permitting of coarse, paint it, then bring it back in. Allthough the smell could still be with the paint that's on the model. Second suggestion is, is your dorm room well ventelated? I think the more ventalated it is, the less of the smell you'll have? Not sure.................. Or, pop some pop-corn at the same time so she'll be smelling that instead.

I've always loved their inch-up series................................their aero-series is cool too!

Need's a Lamborghini in front of it. Preferably with two chick's in it!

Testor's has a descent white primer........what's wrong with that? What's the advantage to Plasti-Kote?

I'm wondering what he's got for us next week. Although I suppose since this is after all a MODEL CAR FORUM, that their probably ALL model's! Of coarse I haven't been on here long enough, so has he actually had a REAL car pictured here?

That's right, I remember the guy at the Pigeon museum saying it was a grey, but it does look brown and my big model represents it well. My smaller Co-axial Airwolf from Walkera I thin khas the darnest closest color possible. Alot of Airwolf toy's are simply black or even black metallic as the case with my Aoshima die-cast. Yes, back to our regularly schedueled topic. The window I pictured there is a skylight so it is an opening. But, as it does not really "SHOW" anything, it would make for a great booth I think..................... But, since I still live with Dad, I'm stuck with painting outside, and bringing the model in as quickly as I can "without dropping it!" so as to let it dry without getting more dust on it. What sucks is when your color coat is all nice and perfect, it's usallly the clear coat that get's the hair particles and dust stuck to it! :~

Does the microwave have one of those turn-tables? Maybe you can modify THAT into a paint booth? Some how rig it up so you can have the turntable work as you spray perhaps? Then when finished, you just simply close the door to let dry?

If I had this awesome basement all to myselfe, I would convert Dad's computer station here to my model station. You can see in the photo a window in the corner. This is more like a sun-light window than anything else as it's a few feet underground and all you see is skylight. As you can tell, this is a useless window for looking out, but it does provide great lighting. This look's like it would make an ideal custom paint booth.

I wasn't even thinking about the tire's. Being that I just ended my art class learning the values between dark and light, it was the lighting that gave it away for me. It just didn't look natural, nor did it look like a real car in a studio. Also, I thought the rear cover look'ed a bit flat. Wouldnt' a real one have more crinkles in the fabric?

oh wow, I found another Airwolf nut on a model "CAR" forum, sweeeet. I have three Airwolf RC's, and Aoshima's beautifully detailed 1/48 scale die-cast model. Wait a minute, we're getting off topic here, but since I started this thread anyway, I can point it in any direction I want to right? Anyway, I've got a big I guess they call it 30-size Airwolf from Century useing their Hawlk mechanics in one of their fuselages. Mine was purchased at a hobby shop in Utah that was an ugly stinky gas-powered job with an ugly camoflauge paint scheme that was horrible and no where near anything like what we saw in the show. So, my Dad converted it to electric useing a big brushless motor, and we have a local full-scale airplane/car body shop man who did a gorgeous repaint on my Airwolf's fuselage in the proper dark metallic brown/white paint scheme. If anybody wants to know, Airwolf was actually a dark 80's brown, NOT BLACK! We all see black cause that's what it look's like in the show, but it's really brown. I've seen a replica of the real one at a helicopter museum in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. WOW What a sight. Anyway, second Airwolf is a highly modified Align Trex450XL with a Heli-Artist Airwolf fuselage that we bought back from our trip to London last year. My third Airwolf is a Walkera 54Q3 Co-axial Airwolf with a beautifully detailed fuselage that I absolutely love, but unfortunetly the mechanics are poop and not worth much time. I'm tempted to put the fuselgae on another helicopter that's ton's better but I dont' know how to do that kind of work. Anyway, thank's for the tips and I love that paint booth! Is it necessary to have a window for air-circulation in a custom paint booth? My workbench is located near a window, but I'm not facing the window or near enough that I can make the window work for me. So that's in total four Airwolf model's, plus three more Airwolf fuselages waiting for some future project. Being on the subject I just gotta show off my collection here. We lovingly call this the "Wolf-pack".

The wet booth makes sence in a way as it keeps the dust down, but I can't imagine the moist be good for the paint?

Yea! I was right this time! I wasn't judging so much by the model it'selfe as IT was very convincing, I was looking at the background and the lighting. It was the odd combination of the light sorce and shadow's that told me fake, or model in this case. Next please!

Love your avatar, I'm a BIG, BIG, BIG Airwolf fan myselfe and that's what got me into RC helicopters. You say dont' wear anything when painting? So you paint in your birthday suit then? LOL! That is true, that we are our worst enemy when it comes to painting. Our own dust, our own body hair, et'c.

Cool, your version look's much better than the production-line model. Funny how the manufactuer's make it poop and we make it cooler!

LOL! Condo on wheels, that's funny. My Dad was shopping for a motorhome a few months back and of coarse "I" wanted a condo on wheels me being me, but he certainly didn't need anything that big nor did he want too. So instead he got a small Chevy Roadtrek which I think is way too small for the two of us, the dog, and the cat. The motorhome to me is more like a minivan than a motorhome. All it's got is driver, passanger, tiny refrigerator, tiny shower, hardly useable it's so freaking small with the toilet built in, and a small sofa thingy in the back that can be converted into a bed for two people side by side. if you ask me it's a useless motorhome but Dad's happy with it. He sais the only way to have a motorhome that big, your condo on wheels, would be if we didn't have a house at all. I disagree, why not have a home away from home with plenty of room for him, me, dog, and cat. Especially when my Dad tends to spread himselfe all over the place with his junk and all I get is a tiny little corner. Another point I'd like to make is why shouldn't Dad have a condo on wheels when he's not even home half the year anyway! Enough of my rambling, I don't think I have room on my workbench for such a project.

..................................well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,okay then..............................................thank's. I guess bigest question shouldn't be regarding the make/model of the car itselfe. Cause obviously that is personal choice. My real question SHOULD have been, are BBR resin kit's worth that much money? Is their quality that good? Are there any issues I should know about before dumping greenbacks on a 1/43 resin kit or model?

Thank you for your input. I would have to say, if/when I have 300 available to blow, and if/when I find a professionally built Koenig Speicals Ferrari Competition, you know, the Testarossa that resembles an F-40, god what an awesome car, I'd buy it. Sadly, back in high-school day's, mid 90's, as I mentioned that store I visited in Switserland, I actually purchased one of those BBR professionally built 1/43 models of Koenig-Specials Ferrari 355, I think back then it was around 60-70 dollars, another awesome car. I say sadley cause back in high-school day's, I didn't care that much about my cars, "toys", as I do now. Shoot, I've collected thousands of toy cars over the past 35 years but as a kid who cares, right? You saw something, you wanted it, you got it, you admired it or played with it, and after a month it's broken and gone. Now as an adult, and a true-collector, we care more about these thing's. I dream of having my own house with wall's covered with shelves from floor to ceiling covering every scale from big 1/18 down to 1/43 of every make or model known to man kind. Each make would have it's own section in it's own scale. 1/18 Ferrari's, 1/43 Lamborghini's, et'c, et'c. As part of that collection, I would also love to have professional display cases like what you may have seen at say Sharper Image back when they were displaying/selling 1/18 scale die-cast model cars. I'd love to have display systems like that at every corner of the living room! Yea, I know I dream big. If your not going to dream big, why dream at all right? The Ferrari 355 I bought back then was a beautiful red one, well here on ebay, is a black one, at three times the price! http://cgi.ebay.com/1-43-BBR-Ferrari-KOENI...1QQcmdZViewItem If link does not work, just go to ebay and check out item number 360138742958.

I am well aware of the 1/24 kit's by Fujimi and have built several in the past, in fact those are my "unicorns" as something always goes wrong with theme. My last one was nearly perfect as I can possibly build it till it decided to fall off the shelfe one day and got broken, lost a couple of parts and was deemed un-fixable. As a collector of 1/43 scale, and as someone who loves these cars in general, I would LOOOOOOOOOOVE to have these 1/43's. Still unsure of the price tag though, and not sure if it's worth the difference in getting one pre-made where the quality is bar-none, or getting a kit and risking poor quality results. Building one myselfe and getting poor quality results would be a heart brake for me and would make me mad at spending that much on something that turned to poop. So again I ask, is it worth spending the EXTRA for a professionally built one, versus a kit?

Sure would be a neat canvas for designing motorhome interiors. I've always been interested in designing concept cars, have an associates degree in Automotive, and Graphic Design, and I started CAD classes a while back but never finished it. I really want to attend the Design Center for Arts college in California, but it's way too expensive. Building this would be alot of fun and great for creativity, but as I said, I dont' know if I have the skills to make it worth investing in the cost of such a kit. I've never, ever chopped the top off a model before for the sake of lowering the roof line. Only thing I've done or attempted to do was chopping it off to make into a convertible. I think this bus would be cool chopped and lowered. Maybe painted metallic black with some hot realistic flames up front, big semi-truck like exaust pipes coming out the rear some how? Like I said, some Ipod Video's on the inside for tv monitors playing a movie? You say it's 1/32, but look's so huge for 1/24? Would an Ipod video even fit? Surely the nano would, but I mean the normal Ipod video.

Now that is a GOOD question. I think I asked my Dad similar question and I think what you'd need is white ink in your printer and probably best to print on clear decal sheets. Or, if you dont' have white ink, I suppose you could print a very faint black outline on the white paper and be very slow and causious when cutting your letters out. Your outline would need to be faint enough you dont' notice it on the model, but obviously, duh, dark enough that your eyes can see it while cutting. I think when I start doing this myselfe, we'll learn together.