AMT 1989 Corvette ZR1

[SDC]

13 hours ago, slusher said:

Your seat color will go with any color you choose for the body

I think you a right Carl!  I have seen many color combos with the tan leather and they all looked good to me.

[SDC]

I'm starting to see the finish line with this one.  

I primed the body this morning and was able to tape it up and spray the engine bay and under the hood this evening.  The interior is pretty much done as well.  It's a little plain, but I am really happy with how the Apple Barrel craft paint turned out.

I basically have the body color and some little details left and I should be ready to stick it under glass.

Thanks for the support everyone!

Edited March 13, 2024 by SDC

[SDC]

If this was a rodeo, then I reckon I got thrown off my bull around 7.5 seconds into my ride, with the finish line in sight.  

I had a pretty interesting craft paint I wanted to try called BlackFlash from the Folk Art Color Shift line.  I think it's supposed to shift a bit between black and gold.  Since it is a cheaper craft paint, I didn't really know what to expect.  I cut it 50/50 with washer fluid and it sprayed really well out of a 0.5 tip. 

I realize it's probably not much of a Corvette color, but I sort of like it, kind of reminds me of Root Beer.  Well, I liked it until I peeled some of it off with my Tamiya tape.  To the Super Clean dunk tank and try again!  The second round went a bit smoother, so now I'm down to the finishing touches and final assembly.  

I hope to have this wrapped up in the next day or so.

[Noah H.]

Sorry about the issue with the tape, I've had tape screw up paint jobs before and it's not a good feeling, but I'm glad you were able to fix it. The paint job looks very good. One thing that I have found helps for helping prevent masking tape from destroying paint jobs is to give the paint extra time to dry, and to limit the time that the tape is on the model as much as possible. Also nice job on the engine wiring, I haven't wired an engine yet but seeing how well yours came out inspires me to try one.

[FoMoCo66]

1 hour ago, Noah H. said:

Also nice job on the engine wiring, I haven't wired an engine yet but seeing how well yours came out inspires me to try one.

Yeah me to, Sorta. I always used to wire my engines with sewing string, then I realized that actual wire is much better. Never have gotten to do that yet though. I will experiment with that on my next build.

[SDC]

2 hours ago, Noah H. said:

One thing that I have found helps for helping prevent masking tape from destroying paint jobs is to give the paint extra time to dry, and to limit the time that the tape is on the model as much as possible.

Thanks for the tips Noah, I 100% agree that I probably taped it too quickly.  Something about seeing the finish line makes it so hard for me to stay patient, then I mess up, and ultimately spend much more time correcting the mistakes in the end than if I'd have just waited.  What's funny though, is I'll still do it again eventually.  It's insanity I guess.