Scale-Master

Yep, even without the body at least 90% of the engine is obscured from view.

The roof was airbrushed with LP-1 Black reduced with the Tamiya lacquer thinner. I hand brushed the bases of the A pillars and the trim above the taillights with the same paint.

The are plated parts from the kit. And you have the choice of LHD or RHD. I agree Matt, the potential reflections could be very distracting. One of my Corvettes has high gloss carbon fiber on the console and just driving next to power lines is still very distracting.

The are plated parts from the kit. And you have the choice of LHD or RHD. I agree Matt, the potential reflections could be very distracting. One of my Corvettes has high gloss carbon fiber on the console and just driving next to power lines is still very distracting.

I don't think much of the engine or chassis will be visible once the car is done, but I went ahead and detail painted every part as called out in the instructions just for fun. That was quite a bit of drill time for the brake rotors. There are indentations molded in that help with the pattern. So far every piece fits great.

I used Tamiya LP and acrylic paints for the interior. Pearl White and various blacks and grays. Since I brush painted the acrylic colors, and it was pretty warm here, I used the Tamiya paint retarder and was very pleased how it worked and made the paint flow smoothly.

Tamiya 1/24th scale kit. I'm building it in the Nouvelle Blue Pearl exterior with Orchid interior as offered in 2017. I started with the body so it could cure while the rest of the car was being built. I used Tamiya LP-47 Pearl Blue, it covers well and glosses up even better.

Replica of the TR4 that Bob Tullius raced at Sebring in 1963 as it is in modern times. I started with this die-cast and created all the graphics.

All the graphics are on it including the new badges and scripts. I designed and printed the decals.

The stripe color is the same shade of blue as the die-cast was originally painted so I mixed a match to it with Tamiya lacquers before repainting the car white

Thanks guys! This is 1/18th scale and the manufacturer is Jadi, (not Jada). The steering wheel needed a little punching up so I added wood grain to the rim.

The body was painted white (Tamiya Lacquer). The roof and windshield are molded in clear and the decals on the windows needed to be kept in place, so some creative masking was employed to repaint both the inside and the outside. The metal beading at the seams of the fenders are the raw die-cast body polished out.

Starter 1/43rd resin kit. Fun project.

This will be a TR4 that Bob Tullius raced at Sebring in 1963 as it is in modern times. I started with this die-cast. After a complete disassembly I filled the holes on the hood and trunk where the lights were attached.

The decals are on and the windows are installed…

The vacuum-formed windows and the headlights were quite yellowed so they have been soaking in peroxide and sitting in the sun for over a week. The windows look much better but the lights have not changed as much, although they are a little clearer. I did the seat material with a light dusting of black over red as the real fabric has a subtle red and black pattern. It looks a bit harsh in this lighting but through the windows it has enough contrast to be visible. I made the shifter out of part of the oversized PE windshield wiper.

The body was shot Tamiya Italian Red. Both front wheel wells and one of the rears needed to be deepened to get the tires to tuck inside the body and to sit nice and low.

Thank you Caleb. You made my day. I've since done other different and highly detailed steering wheels.

The wheels are three piece affairs and the spoke inserts don’t fit the best so I filled the gaps with the same gold paint they were sprayed with.

Starter 1/43rd resin kit. This one is pretty simple, only thirty some pieces if you count the clear parts after they are cut out. While not a bad casting, the worst part of this kit was the taillight recesses. They needed to be cleaned up and I didn't want to make new lights so I made a tool out of brass tubing on my lathe to remove the clumps of resin and keep the lights round. Then a small chisel was used to remove the rest of the errant resin.

Tamiya's recent release of the Supra GR done up as a tribute to the 1995 Tom's Toyota Castrol Supra. I designed and printed a set of decals tailored to the newer body. Of course sizes and proportions of the graphics had to be tweaked to make them fit. Otherwise it is an out-of-the-box build.

I started with a Tamiya Subaru BRZ and adapted the iconic scheme from the Shelby Toyota 2000GT to it. I designed and printed the decals but built the model out-of-the-box. I made new chrome Toyota badges for the nose and rear end. Since it's a custom/tribute car I'm fine with the non-Toyota parts.

The kit wheels didn't do much for me, but after I painted 2/3 of the recesses on them gray I liked how they looked for this car.

Finished interior.

Finished interior.