FrankenJag, part four.

[roadkill]

FrankenJag, a 1/8 scale model as a version of something I saw in my head one dark stormy night, Mwahaha.

 

Ok so this is the fourth post on my saga I call the FrankenJag. I’m almost finished building this weird contraption but I’m not sure I want to post any more pics as it’s not turning out anything like my vision and I’m having soo much trouble with it I sometimes just wanna smash it to bits or take it outside and just set the bastard thing on fire. I’ve repainted it four times, which involves re sanding, re masking, (geez masking up is tedious and takes so long, being 1/8 scale), and painting again, and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but it just keeps coming out rubbish, so I’ve just flat out given up and the paint is now just gunna have to stay as is which is pretty BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH. This model was the first time I’ve eva tried to paint a model in two colours so that was interesting to say the least, some of this colour came out reasonable so I’m not touching that either. I knew I would have to be very careful masking up to do the second colour and found the centre line on each panel or part and very carefully marked the lines for the masking and checked that the lines matched perfectly from panel to panel. Yeah well even that didn’t work, one edge of one of the panels is 3mm too &$#%cn narrow, which is 24mm (1in for us old fart’s), in full scale, I was so surprized, disappointed, pissed off and just totally bewildered how I managed to do it when I was so careful, like measure twice cut once kinda thing but still stuffed it, and I’m not doing it again, it’s just getting too hard and I can’t afford to just keep buying paint, masking tape and such. The reasoning for the two colours is I was trying to make it look a bit like the Gulf Racing colour scheme which I really like, I think it’s a very striking colour scheme and really stands out on the race track. OK so I have decided to put the pics up anyway so you can at least see what I was trying to build.              Kind regards, Michael.

[SpikeSchumacher]

Wow!?

[dino246gt]

6 minutes ago, SpikeSchumacher said:

Wow!?

That's what I was going to say! 

[H.A.K]

Looks great.

[cobraman]

Double wow !

[beeRS]

A fine concept, made even better by the Gulf racing colours ??

[Calb56]

I love the Gulf colors!

[Kah puts]

You had me at Jag ?

[roadkill]

Gentlemen one and all, thank you so very much for looking and the positive comments, much appreciated, so all I've got to do now is get the beastie finished, again thanks so much for looking.

 

Michael.

[Rattlecan Dan]

My smile kept getting bigger and bigger it's so teasing I hope you finish. I and many here have probably gone through that two-tone nightmare. You'll feel very gratified if you make it through this trial of perseverance. It looks gorgeous by the way.

[Bugatti Fan]

A very nice fun project where the imagination lets rip!     Look forward to seeing it finished soon enough.

[Sam I Am]

I have one of these in the stash. I like your color scheme,  and the wheels. Oh, and if your going to throw it away...throw it my way. ? 

[Andy Oldenburg]

Shock and awe.......... Beautiful build, wonderful craftsmanship, very creative solutions......... Did I forget something? Love it!?

[roadkill]

Thanks gents, for looking and the praise, much appreciated.

 

Michael.

[milo1303s]

WOW thats bad@55 very nice butt that camber !!! lol