Merkur XR4Ti

I would contact Sam to get prices directly, each project varies depending on the amount of work involved. I've commissioned several projects from Sam over the years and his work is top-notch.

My latest: a fantasy Bubba Wallace Tuskegee Airmen scheme. Bubba has had Air Force sponsorship over the years, and he’s got it again this year, but a Tuskegee Airmen scheme was never run with Bubba as the driver. (Erik Jones did run one). I thought that was a missed opportunity, so after seeing a scheme on Trading Paints, I asked Sam Lopez of 3 Amigos Decals to create decals based on that. The car replicates the famous “Red Tails” P-51 Mustangs that the Tuskegee Airmen flew. The body is a 3D printed resin from Jay's Stock Cars.

Inspired by the build Jay Savarese did that was recently bumped here, this is my version of Bubba's Doordash Camaro. Resin body from Jay's Stock Cars and MPR decals.

Sorry for the huge pic. As a lark I recently purchased an older goalie figure produced by McFarlane and repainted, repositioned, and redecaled it to that of Boston Bruin Anton Khudobin. I made my own decals for this project and used most Apple Barrel craft paints. I had seen a customized figure on FB which inspired me to make my own.

Aaah that's why I thought the rear window was straight. Learn something new every day.

Huh. Apologies. I must have mixed it up with another model. Carry on.

IIRC the actual car had a straight line at the bottom of the rear window, not the curved one we saw on the convertible kit. On the convertible it's not an issue because the cover conceals it, but I hope that's been fixed on the hardtop.

If someone doesn't want to use the whitewall decals from this sheet, I'd take them (for use on another project.) Drop me a line if interested.

I believe that Model Car Garage has a photoetch sheet with those louvers.

Yes, all the Twister graphics come with the kit.

Built from the new reissue of the Revell kit, with Scale Finishes Calypso Coral paint. All decals are straight from the kit.

Why? Twisters were only in Calypso Coral, so the color wouldn't match either. I assume he used the side stripes because he wanted to and they looked cool, which is all the reason anyone needs.

Yes, I'm working on mine now and it took less than 5 minutes to sand off the GT louvers on both sides of the body.

Oh geez I totally missed that! I wish we got the expanded decal sheet in the NA releases, those seat insert and seat belt graphics look very nice indeed.

Did anyone get the Revell of Germany version? I'm curious to see if they expanded the decal sheet for that version like they did for the Olds 442. I could use the silver seat inserts from that sheet if they are included and anyone has them.

What are folks' preferred sources for Ford Calypso Coral paint that would be needed for the Twister Special?

I'll post pictures later, but after some experimentation I found that Tamiya TS-76 Mica Silver is a very good match for the silver decals in the kit and that is what I painted my hood.

I'm really enjoying this build, the grocery-getter/daily driver is horribly underrepresented in the hobby. Great job.

To me, 1/20 for the open wheel car made sense as that was the standard for open wheel cars for many years. I have no issue with that. I don't usually build IndyCar but I'll likely pick one up and give it a try.

I strongly suspect he does not. It's all Teresa. It's a strange situation of course, because she is not his mother (and she has her daughter with Dale) and they had the acrimonious falling out causing Jr to leave DEI. I believe she is 100% the owner of DEI and he has JRM now and other business interests. I'd be shocked if they had any communication at all. When Kerry was on the Dale Jr Download show both men talked about it and seemed to indicate neither had any relationship or communication with her. In any case, I suspect the upcoming RCR #3 kits will sell quite well, even at that price. Having Carto-quality decals will be a big plus.

Jr isn't associated with DEI, right? That's all Theresa. As far as the new kit goes, I suspect that its presence at races will help to drive sales to casual modelers but avid race fans. We'll see.

Right, they have Nascar licensing so they can use the "3" and the associated decals for Goodwrench, but IIRC the "Dale Earnhardt" trademark is owned by Theresa and would require additional licensing to acquire. And given how....challenging she can be in regards to business, going this way makes a lot of sense for Salvino's. I can scare up an Earnhardt name decal elsewhere, I'm sure.

I looked at the decal sheet last night and there's a definite metallic appearance on the graphics so AS-12 won't work. I will experiment with TS-17 Aluminum and TS-76 Mica Silver to see if either one of those matches.

Thanks, Tim, that's a huge help.

Is the silver on the hood for the cars with silver accents flat or semi-gloss? It's very hard to tell from pictures. I think it's flat (was going to use Tamiya AS-12 Bare metal for it) but I am not sure.