2018 ARCA Ford finished

[MarkJ]

I always wondered what my favorite snack might look like as  sponsors on a race car. The build took 54 hours. 23.5 hours of that was for creating and printing the decals. Paint is small bottle testors enamel, shot through my air brush using lacquer thinner. I had to darken the green with some black until it was close to matching the decal backgrounds. The kit is a  Joey Logano snap kit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bbowser]

That is a beauty!  Love the driver's name 

[MarkJ]

Thanks , Bruce. As you know, he is the most interesting man in the world.

[CRANMAN1]

Awsome Job!!!

[bigryan18]

Looks great

Edited October 25, 2018 by bigryan18

[martinfan5]

nice work

[Old Coyote]

Absolutely stunning Mark ............. you have totally "come to speed" using enamels ............. the paint job is out of this world ............. I told you it wouldn't take long to surpass my paint jobs ..... great body work ..... outstanding overall ! ....... isn't it neat that you can alter the shade of the paint by mixing it with another paint ............... opens up a whole new set of possibilities

Edited October 25, 2018 by Old Coyote

[MarkJ]

58 minutes ago, Old Coyote said:

Absolutely stunning Mark ............. you have totally "come to speed" using enamels ............. the paint job is out of this world ............. I told you it wouldn't take long to surpass my paint jobs ..... great body work ..... outstanding overall !

John, there is no way I could ever surpass your paint jobs. Thanks for the props on the build. Just really glad you turned me on to testors enamels. Its a lot more flexible to use them because you can just about come up with any color you want  by either adding white, black or silver. Its so much easier now to match my decals to the color of the model. Plus I did not have to polish this model which I really hate to do. But if I wanted to I could have polished it because I was surprised to find that you actually can polish testors enamels.

[Dragonhawk1066]

That is awesome!! I love it!! Great job on the decals.

[Jim N]

Really stellar work Mark!  Looks outstanding.

[MarkJ]

Thanks, Neil, Craig, and Jim, for the enthusiastic replies. I really appreciate the feed back.

[MarkJ]

Here are the leftover decals.

 

[RAMBENNA]

fabulous , you did an excellent job , love it

[MarkJ]

Thanks, Cliff. I really appreciate the reply.

[GoatGuy]

Awesome job. Very clean work. But you used lacquer thinner with enamels? I thought you could only use lacquer thinner with lacquer. 

[MarkJ]

12 hours ago, GoatGuy said:

Awesome job. Very clean work. But you used lacquer thinner with enamels? I thought you could only use lacquer thinner with lacquer. 

Donn Yost did a dvd on how to do this, if you want to look into it, but I just played around with it till I got it to work. I thin the enamel paint 50% with common lacquer thinner you can buy at auto zone, and have a squirt bottle of lacquer thinner ready in case the tip of the airbrush clogs up. I just tried different air pressure setting with different  paint supply settings which I can do because I have a double action brush and a needle valve where the hose hooks to the brush to control the air pressure. Its like shooting lacquer paint except that its glossy instead of dull on the model. Maybe some people can shoot lacquer and it comes out glossy, but I sure cant . Thanks for the reply , D.

[slusher]

Outstanding and impressive!!