What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)

[meechum68]

Looking good!! Nice variety and work!!

[oldcarfan]

On 10/23/2025 at 6:39 PM, FoMoCo66 said:

Got some paint work done on my 40 willy gasser wheels. I wanted magnesium with using what I have, 50/50 testors graphite gray metallic and testors flat steel. I think im satisfied with the results.

To me, that magnesium color looks spot on! Nice work and nice build too.

 

[FoMoCo66]

1 hour ago, oldcarfan said:

To me, that magnesium color looks spot on! Nice work and nice build too.

 

Thanks man, I was not expecting it to be that good, but what do you know.

[johnyrotten]

Finished sorting through all the paints I picked up over the weekend. Not many casualties, almost all the model master,polly scale and tamiya were good after a quick stir. 70 new paints need racks now. Still have to deal with the 52 humbrol, I don't think the opened ones are any good.

[NOBLNG]

I am trying to learn better paint and polishing techniques. I elected to use this body for a test mule. I primed it with Tamiya grey then painted it with Mr. Color #77 metallic green. I very lightly rubbed a spot on the roof and trunk with #3000 trizact to remove some boogers. Then I cleared it with three coats of Duplicolor perfect match gloss. I suspected that the sanded spots would show since it is a metallic paint…and it does. However, this is only a test mule so now I know better for any future project.🤓 I then wet sanded the right half of the roof with 4,6,8 and 10,000 and polished it with the three Tamiya compounds.

Edited Tuesday at 06:09 PM by NOBLNG
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[johnyrotten]

3 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

I am trying to learn better paint and polishing techniques

That looks fantastic 👍👍.