Airbrush Practice: Revell 71 Hemi Cuda

[LAV25]

Got this car as a practice piece before working on another model I wanted to do really well on. This one came out better than the one that followed, go figure. This was my first time really using an airbrush to full-ish capacity. There are some things I'd do differently if I did it again, and the reason I left the finish all orange-peely is because I was too happy with the paint job to be willing to risk messing it up with sandpaper. 

Thanks for looking, and comments and critiques are welcome. 

[NOBLNG]

Doesn’t look like you need practice! It is a really beautiful paint job.?

Edited March 1, 2023 by NOBLNG

[Mopar2]

Wow...Awesome paint job...

[KWT]

That came out pretty slick. nice job

[Zippi]

Nice looking Hemi Cuda.  I like that rasberry color.  

[LAV25]

8 hours ago, Mopar2 said:

Wow...Awesome paint job...

Thanks very much!

1 hour ago, KWT said:

That came out pretty slick. nice job

Thank you, I'm glad you like it. 

49 minutes ago, Zippi said:

Nice looking Hemi Cuda.  I like that rasberry color.  

That's actually a bit of a miracle. It's Mr. Color Wine Red that I added a few drops of black into an unmeasured dump of paint until it looked nice. I've got color vision issues so I couldn't reproduce it in a million years. The hood is unmodified wine red over silver. 

9 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

Doesn’t look like you need practice! It is a really beautiful paint job.?

Thanks so much, I'm glad you like how it came out. I'm pretty happy too, but if I were to do it over again, I think I would extend the sunburst and the stripes to the nose section of the car. Also, the third diagonal silver stripe on the left side of the car is misaligned to the sunburst. I put it to the rear of its "burst" ray rather than the front. Dunno why, I wasn't paying attention. I think I would also eliminate the final diagonal silver stripes on the rear fenders of the car. They don't connect clearly to the sunburst on the hood (although they are aligned from it) and I think the car would overall look better with the last stripe connecting to the bottom of the rear wheelwell. 

Next time I join that makerspace I'm going to buy a 500 pack of spoons and just sit there for two weeks learning to paint and polish to a glossy finish. Then I'll start a new car. 

[Dragonhawk1066]

Cool looking Cuda!

[slusher]

Unique and sharp paint!

[bobthehobbyguy]

Well done. Nice airbrushing work. Best way to learn to do something is try it. Great idea doing a practice build.

[PappyD340]

Super nice, well done!