3rd gen Camaro

[Mattilacken]

Good that it worked out for you! 

[MarkJ]

Thanks, Anton. I might clear the model today if I have time.

[MarkJ]

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[MarkJ]

The entry above was an edited picture I had of the real car that I wanted to see what it looked like posted. it was way too big. That's why I semi deleted it and will post another one when I cut the size of it down a little bit. I will clear the model today and hope it turns out better with the flow improver. 

Edited March 21 by MarkJ

[kensar]

Hope your clearcoating works well.  Are you having the extremely low humidity weather there?

[MarkJ]

8 hours ago, kensar said:

Hope your clearcoating works well.  Are you having the extremely low humidity weather there?

Yes, Ken. It's been getting really low in the afternoons. I missed out on today but I'm hoping tomorrow is still low. We've been in fire danger for the last week or, so which is really weird for us to worry about. Thanks for stopping by. 

[MarkJ]

Really happy with how the clear turned out with the flow improver. Last time I used it, the clear was like I had painted grains of sand on the surface. This time its smooth and glossy and I'm really debating on whether I need to polish it at all. One thing is for sure I will be adding the glass and the hood and deck pins and decaling soon and finishing this thing up.

[MarkJ]

Got the glass and the hood and deck pins installed. I decided not to polish the paint because it would not look much better than this and I would probably be going down the rabbit hole of re needing to refinish it once again. So, I will decal it, future it. and be done with it. I can use the stuff I learned on it to make a better next model, hopefully. Sometimes you have to know when to cut bait and try for a better fish. The next photos you see will hopefully be in the under-glass forum, or whatever it's called in here. 

[1959scudetto]

Paint is looking good, Mark - I would leave it like that.

[Belugawrx]

Looks great Mark...decal away

Glass and hood pins are spot on (2thmsup)

[MarkJ]

Thanks for stopping by Helmut and Bruce. Always great to hear from you guys. I'm actually pretty excited about laying down the decals. I made them a year and a half ago and hope they look good on the model. Might have to double up on them but since the paint is not that dark maybe I won't have to. The colored ones will have to have a white inlay decal under them so those will have to be doubled. The white decals are laser jet, and the colored ones are ink jet because the inkjet makes clearer and more defined decals than the laser jet does. 

[MarkJ]

Been decaling. Had to go back and get rid of the door handle depressions. Wasn't going to work at all with the decals. These are the main decal sheets I'm using. Slowly but surely, I am getting them on. You have to cut them as closely as you can because they are home made. the future will help in hiding the edges somewhat.

[Mattilacken]

Nice with a printer that can print white! Looking good as always!

[MarkJ]

3 hours ago, Mattilacken said:

Nice with a printer that can print white! Looking good as always!

Thanks, Anton. Yes, that's all I use it for. And it's all I need it for. I'm glad I got it when I did because I don't think they sell them anymore. I use an inkjet for the colored decals. works better.

[MarkJ]

With any luck I will be through decaling today. I need to take the body off and put two small decals on the dash. I also have to install the window net and then I can reattach the body after futureing the dash decals and then future the body and I will be ready for under glass forum finally. The body is made to snap on and off of the chassis. No glue required.

[1959scudetto]

27 minutes ago, MarkJ said:

With any luck I will be through decaling today. I need to take the body off and put two small decals on the dash. I also have to install the window net and then I can reattach the body after futureing the dash decals and then future the body and I will be ready for under glass forum finally. The body is made to snap on and off of the chassis. No glue required.

So we will see it within the next days in the Under Glass section ?

[MarkJ]

4 hours ago, 1959scudetto said:

So we will see it within the next days in the Under Glass section ?

I sure hope so, Helmut. That's the plan, but it might slip out of my hand and go crashing to the floor. With my luck you never know. Stay tuned.

[Rattlecan Dan]

With our luck we will get to see a great build completed! Doing a great job Mark.

[MarkJ]

13 hours ago, Rattlecan Dan said:

With our luck we will get to see a great build completed! Doing a great job Mark.

Thanks for stopping by with the support, Donato. I already noticed a mistake while decaling the model. I did not allow enough space between the bottom of the windshield and the dash and it's not allowing the roll cage to get close enough to the roof. i will put on some thin vinyl gloves to protect the decal work and try to remove enough material from either the dash or the windshield Bottom to allow a tighter fit of the roll cage to the roof. Its bugging the heck out of me now.

[1959scudetto]

17 minutes ago, MarkJ said:

Thanks for stopping by with the support, Donato. I already noticed a mistake while decaling the model. I did not allow enough space between the bottom of the windshield and the dash and it's not allowing the roll cage to get close enough to the roof. i will put on some thin vinyl gloves to protect the decal work and try to remove enough material from either the dash or the windshield Bottom to allow a tighter fit of the roll cage to the roof. Its bugging the heck out of me now.

Despite all the obstacles: Keep on thinking positive, Mark - You've almost done it.

[MarkJ]

Thank you, Helmut for always giving me positive thoughts about the build. I'm pretty sure if I just shave a little off the front of the dash pad the fit to the body at the windshield will be fixed. The trouble when you mock parts together and try them, the assembly is not tight enough to give you accurate results. Tape is not like glue it gives too much. Whatever it takes I'm going to get it right. Thanks again my friend.

[MarkJ]

Its finally finished. I just need to clean up my work area so I can take the final photos. That might take some time. But I need to make sure the future is completely dry before I reassemble the model for photos. Don't want to put fingerprints in it. Then again, I could just wear vinyl gloves. But it's hard to work the camera and pose the model with gloves on. 

[Pierre Rivard]

WHAT?

You didn't drop it?

Seriously friend, happy you survived all the hurdles and can finally move this one in the DONE category. You deserve a nice little OOB!

[bytownshaker]

Congratulations I'm so happy for you.

[MarkJ]

Thanks, Pierre and Edgar. It feels great to finally have this one completed. I really learned a lot from it, especially about paint, so I'm hoping that I can get better results faster in the future-on-future builds like my next one that will be OOB and I bought the decals for it. Hopefully only take a few weeks instead of many months to finish it and build another.