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If they're just finger smudges then the finish compound will be fine. The only time I've had superglue fogging it was dry and powdery, and could simply be wiped off. If it's more permanent see if the compound on a Q tip removes it. Avoid kit plated chrome, as it's weak. I use an accelerator for my superglue now on every joint, and it keeps the fogging from occurring. Never a problem anymore...

Tamiya compounds are best when used together and used on Tamiya sprays. If the fingerprints are embedded in the paint, you're never getting them out w/finishing compound alone, you will have to cut the paint and buff it traditionally...if there's enough paint. Having all three compounds is the best option for your toolbox. The finish is the least caustic, it's more to put on a final shine. I keep things as easy as possible, since I love using Tamiya compounds on Tamiya sprays, I'll clearcoat nearly anything with Tamiya TS13 clear, so that my wetsanding is kept to a minimum and I can then go to the Tamiya coarse, fine, and finish compounds. Saves an awful lot of time.

Wetsand with 3200/3600/4000/6000, maybe 8K and 12K Micromesh (if it's a dark color), followed by liquid compound. If you use Tamiya sprays (which decant/airbrush nicely) you can often get away with murder, often just 4000 and then go right to their coarse, fine, and finish compounds which cut their own paint like magic.

Very awesome! I'd love to build something like this

I got the same one, not really wild about it. I love the clips and the clip holders. My paint stand is one from Micromark, it's one that you hold in your hands, it has foam that contacts inside the body and a spring to keep tension on it. It's easy to maneuver, and easy to get it hung up after painting before transferring the body to the dehydrator. It was highly recommended by one of my friends, I saw how he used it and I got one ASAP and quit using the old coat hangers and don't miss them a bit. Micromark Hold It Easy

Black panel will look okay, though with your stripes and taillight surrounds you start to border on making it look a bit too "JC Whitney" before it's all said and done. Ditch the chrome and put in the sequential taillight blinkers that look so cool on the 2010's. And no, do not put on a big blob of bird poop over the upper left corner of your rear window, it totally destroys the balance of the design

I saw that last week on the weather channel and it's the most awesome tornado video I've ever seen. Those guys who took the video were pretty happy to see that after 4 weeks of nothing. I'd love to tag along doing tornado chasing sometime

Very nice build! Welcome aboard, and thank you for your service to our country

My P4 #25 NART Ferrari is getting closer to being ready, I need to fill a couple more spots where the chin was glued to the body and it's ready for primer. Thank goodness it's a white car (and molded in very dense white plastic); I'll lay out the decal designs (mostly stripes and the NART decals) and print them on both clear and white decal film on a laser printer. The colors should turn out quite good that way (too translucent for any other color). I didn't have enough time to try to buy some aftermarket decals. I should be ready to print out what I need after about an hour or so of designing them. I found some GM-style rally mirrors in my parts box that are much closer to the 1:1 than the silly oversized mirrors in the Fujimi kit, meant for a different car. Hoping I can mask the prepainted gold wheel centers w/Silly Putty to spray the blue wheel rims. Can't wait for Saturday So far it looks like 3 Ferraris will be built this year in north Georgia at our classified rural "Road Ringgold" location . Fujimi P4 NART, Fisher 512, Tecnomodel 250GT Sperimentale are on the grid. Add to that an Alfa T33 '67 LeMans test car from Scale Designs and a pair of Corvette C6R's and some sort of Porsche.

I built an R/T and had zero problems painting the seats w/Tamiya TS 48 Gunship Gray, which pretty well matches the dark charcoal interior (as well as Tamiya XF 63 German Gray acrylic). The seat pleat decals work well too, they look good on the dark gray and will look good on black. The one-piece front seat is nicely detailed, down to the seat recliner handles. The mold lines are fairly faint. Don't get discouraged because it's not styrene, they are easy to paint (just don't use enamel), easy to press-fit and then glue into place from underneath.

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Awesome! Nice work, I might have to try that one for a future LeMans build...on race day

If the model is as "impressive" as their website... I don't want to jinx it for those eagerly awaiting....but they give me plenty of ammo...

I did that with F1. Last year did me in, possibly for good. I might return if F1 returns to North America and if Bernie and Max are long gone from the series. I quit watching the year of the Indy tire fiasco, but watched again the following year. I won't stop watching all motorsports, that would be crazy. There's still sports car racing like SCCA, the ALMS, Rolex series, the occasional Speed Challenge races, they're worth catching. Can't wait for the upcoming weekend and the biggest race of all, the 24 Hours of LeMans.

Well look who the cat dragged in! Looks good! Bring it to the meeting today. Lunch is at "the spot" at 1PM...first time we've been there in a long time...hope you can join us.

Thanks! I'll be shooting photos as usual, looks like we'll have between 5-8 people in one worshop in rural North Georgia this year...perhaps some painting "alfresco" while someone else is in the spray booth and a dehydrator "farm" that may increase global warming

I can't wait! We have a lot of fun getting together for the race and to build our LeMans cars. This year I'm building Fujimi's P3/P4 kit in the 1967 #25 NART livery (white/blue stripe). I gotta get the body in finished primer and get all the parts ready for paint, and get my decals worked out sometime before the race. I've been building a bunch of American iron lately, the Ferrari will be a nice change of pace

It's not terribly hard to remove a bit of material from the top of the grilles (they've got a curve that's much too pronounced) and then carefully bend/flatten the leading edge of the hood to match. Most people also don't mask off the chrome and paint the body color surround (or strip/paint the whole thing and detail with BMF). With a little extra care and detail even the reissue grille/hood can look quite good. Here's a quick comparison I did with two kits, the one on the left is modified and primed/detailed. Here's an original SSII that I built, leaving the butterscotch colored body unpainted (wish I'd figured out the grille/hood modification, but bending the hood would likely have meant the color of the plastic might have been affected): Would be fun if they'd reissue this one too.

Love the paint scheme Looking great.

You're either going to have to cut up several kits, or somehow find one of Ebbro's really nice 1/24 built diecast models of the GTR and modify it's appearance to that of your friend's car. The Ebbro model is out of production, but there are still some out there if you dig hard enough. It has full engine/chassis detail unlike the kits. Just Google Ebbro 1/24 GTR, you can also find photos on HLJ if you do a search there.

You're definitely in the minority on the 348 vs. 355 debate. 348's are too "Pontiac" and not nearly enough "Ferrari". Many consider the F355 the last really attractive Ferrari. 348's, 328's, Mondials, 308 GT4's are all kind of the bottom-feeder Ferraris. A lot of times when a car has a "major refresh" it loses it's focus and isn't as good. But when Ferrari updated the 348 to F355, they improved it a lot!

If the F355's body was trashed, it's worth very little except as a parts car (you'd be better off just buying another one used vs. paying a fortune to repair it). I seriously doubt it was a mint condition car, and F355's aren't that rare or collectible...though if this were a 348-based conversion it would be just as cool and to me a 348 is a very expendable Ferrari.

There's only one that I know of, and I suspect it's the one you got. From the seller who has really lousy photos on Feebay, taken from a long distance away of the car in front of a mirror?

All 2CVs are cool. Even the old ratty ones. But this one is awesome

He should work for Jada