Mercedes Benz AMGSL 65

[Guest Sickfish]

G'day guys! Here's my latest finished build, the SL65 AMG 'Benz. It's the Aoshima kit, box-stock, with only tyre change's. I wanted something a bit different without making any big mods. It's called the black-edition so what better colour to paint it... Matte black! ( Testors

Chrome Black ) I didn't like the tyres, as now

even Aoshima's tyres are coming without

sidewall detail ! So I raided the spare tyre box & pulled out the tyres from the Tamiya F50. They fit perfectly & no mods needed  I wanted to give it that muscle car look so I used

a white paint marker & did my best to highlight the lettering ... Nothing else was done/added. Anyway here it is....

Cheers & thanks for looking, Cliffo 

Edited August 4, 2011 by Sickfish

[Harry P.]

Nice clean build, very "stealthy" looking.

Personally I would have gone with a high-gloss finish... but this looks pretty good, too.

[Guest Sickfish]

More pics...

Cheers Cliffo 

Edited August 4, 2011 by Sickfish

[Harry P.]

This would make a great Batmobile if Batman was German...

Fledermausmann!

[sjordan2]

Great job, and an excellent use of the new (but strange) Mercedes colors using matte and chrome-like paints.

http://www.zercustoms.com/news/Mercedes-Matte-Paint.html

Edited August 4, 2011 by sjordan2

[allparish12]

im feeling the matte black cliff!

[Guest Sickfish]

Thanks guys! 

Just took some outdoor pics...

Cheers Cliffo 

[sjordan2]

On the other side of the coin, it would also be accurate to use Alclad for body paint, such as this one with Aluma-Bead silver: