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Oh man!! You really have to do your homework around these parts!!! Or, you better be a good liar!!! Mark, I wetsanded my color coats because I found a few little pieces of dust in the paint, nothing major but you would have definitely seen it. After that, I gave it another 2 coats and then the clear.

Steve, thanks a lot for your suggestion, I have used that method before and I really hate it, the color of the BMF doesn't look right, it never sticks as well as the regular chrome BMF and lastly, I have a pretty good method that works for me. Thanks again!!

Thanks Jeff!! I wetsanded my color coats a bit before moving onto the clear, that's why you see that unpainted. I didn't mind because it will be painted in black later...

I have 2 of these in my stash also, I will definitely be doing something in the near future with one of them also, I love these little cars!! Good luck on yours and please, keep us posted!!

Wow Jay, I don't know what to say, sorry to hear that my friend, I will keep this in mind and try to do a good job on it, it has sentimental value now....

I might be using the spoiler my friend, I am covering the hood with Scale Motor Sport's Carbon Fiber decal and just might be doing the same thing to the spoiler if I decide to use it. If not, don't worry, it will be yours! Hosted on Fotki Love the fact that it's a copperish color which will blend perfectly with the color of the body!!!

After much thinking, I have decided on which tires I will go with, I want the back ones a little wider than the front ones which means that I will have to cut part of the front rim down from the rear part of the tire to make it look correct. The rear tires are from a Fujimi kit I have in my stash, the front ones are from American Satco which I was lucky to have in my spare parts. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki I will either be Alclading these rims or using Testor's Aluminum Buffing Metallizers to get the correct look on them. These rims had kind of a brushed aluminum look to them so I will see what I can do to make them look right. Hosted on Fotki

Here is the body cleared with Tamiya TS-13. I have already wetsanded, polished and waxed this baby so the next step is painting all the molding around the windows and body in their proper black color. There will be lots of masking to achieve this but hey, that's the fun part, aint it??? Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki This is a picture taken outside to show the true color, it was not polished at this stage yet though, I will have to take a few pictures of the completed body outside on a sunny day later...... Hosted on Fotki

Body is primed, sanded and ready for paint! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki I have a few bottles of Rainbow Products Lacquer paints which have been with me for quite a while, they each have a sticker on the cap stating the color but it looks like this one is missing it so I cannot tell you what color it is but I decided to use it anyway, thought it looked perfect for this. Hosted on Fotki Shot a few coats with the airbrush and these are the results, I am liking it a lot.... Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

Hi there fellas, want to share this little build with you. I am still awaiting some parts that I need to complete it but here we go. It is based on the old Monogram RX7 kit. A very good friend of mine gave me this model and I have always wanted to put one together. I am discarding the flares, gave them to Dave Zinn, one of the members here, I want to do mine relatively stock with it's Rotary engine in place. I will also be using some nice triangular Mazda rims I had made in resin by my good friend Harold Bradford from Historic Racing Miniatures. I want to keep the originals for another build in the future. I will be working on the body first which I usually leave for last but since I have another one of these kits handy, I will use that body for mock up purposes so I don't ruin the freshly painted one that I will be showing you guys later on this post. First thing I did was smooth out the plastic and re-scribe my panel lines as usual. The biggest problem was the hood, I needed to add a litlle bit of plastic in several places to make it look right, it was pretty bad out of the box. There were some pretty nasty mold lines I had to get rid of also. Added some plastic around the hood to fix the problems around that area and eliminated all of the mold lines around the body, she is ready for primer!

Hey my friend this is old news, I finished this a long time ago, you even posted on that thread

Very cool bro!!! Love all the work you put in this thing, thanks for sharing!!!

Very cool!!!

WOW! Great stuff, remind me that to compete against you!! Welcome to the forum, you will like it here, lots of great people and a great place to learn! Don't worry about Harry, you see that fierce dog in my avatar? He is chewing his behind right now so, don't worry. But seriuosly, Harry is a great guy, he just believes in what I believe, constructive critizism, best way to learn....

Awesome Bob!!!

I have been playing around with one of these for a while trying to combine these 2 kits together, I think that with a bit of work it should work...... Norm Veber, from Replicas and Miniatures Company of Maryland has that engine in resin with some additional parts also, at least, when I decide to do this, that's what I will be purchasing from him!!

Looks great Bob!!!

Looks great John, of course, I know you do great work and you must get this photographed in a better setting, other than that, as usual, very cool!!! Are you going to the next MAMA meeting? Hope to see it there....

What if we rank or rate the models by numbers as we post, for example, 1 for poor, 2 for needs cleanliness, 3 for orange peel in the paint and so on, in this way, there is a standard etched in stone that people need to follow in order to do better work in the future. We can fill in the blanks in conjunction with the numbers to determine the quality of the build versus the number given....

This is great Cesar, reminds me of one I built a few years back.....

Very cool my friend, a little constructive criticism though, try misting your paint between coats, this will give you more tooth for the next coats to follow. If you look at all the edges and door panel lines, the paint seems to be getting away from these, you might be dumping too much paint at one time. Other than that, as I said, very cool!!!

Great stuff Cesar, very clean and detailed work!!

Fantastic job man, I am diggin' this cool truck!!!

I agree with you Dave, yours is definitely different but very creative!! I did one myself but in the same old boring fashion..... Hosted on Fotki

WOW Luis!! This came out awesome brother, you should be very happy with this!!