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Aoshima Mercedes SL63 AMG


Eric C

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Here's another one recently finished. Aoshima's SL63 AMG. A fun kit that I really enjoyed building. Built out of the box with Tamiya TS-8 Red and cleared. Wheels were painted with Testors metalizer and cleared with Tamiya clear.

Thanks for looking.

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Eric, another outstanding build. Just finished looking at your C6R. This Mercedes couldn't be any cleaner. A question, if you don't mind. Do you decant Tamiya sprays and airbrush them when you paint? I can't get that kind of result straight from the can. LOL.Great work!

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Eric, another outstanding build. Just finished looking at your C6R. This Mercedes couldn't be any cleaner. A question, if you don't mind. Do you decant Tamiya sprays and airbrush them when you paint? I can't get that kind of result straight from the can. LOL.Great work!

Thanks guys.

Actually I paint from the can. I normally heat the can slightly with a blow dryer before I spray but the real finish comes from polishing. I use the three grades of Tamiya polish, coarse, fine and finish, to get a decent shine.

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What did you do to keep the front bumper on? I built the same car and had a slight mis-hap with the bumper. Im going to go back and refinish it later and clear it. Just had to put it together and get it out of my way before something worse happened.

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What did you do to keep the front bumper on? I built the same car and had a slight mis-hap with the bumper. Im going to go back and refinish it later and clear it. Just had to put it together and get it out of my way before something worse happened.

Thanks guys.

Kaleb, I didn't do anything special to keep the bumper on. I glued it on early in the process with superglue before I ever did any priming or painting. This, in fact almost turned out to be a problem in itself because I had a hard time getting the headlights in place once the bumper was glued on.

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