2011 Nascar Dodge Charger Brad Keselowski

[rbarton]

Looking good man.

[MarkJ]

Looking real good Mark. I'm looking for 'bad Brad' to do big things this year. I haven't heard who Penske plans to put in the 22 yet.

I heard it was Almendinger. Hopefully he will be a better team mate then Kurt was.

['08SEAL]

Nice!

[MarkJ]

I realized that the yellow rockers ,front spoiler and lower rear bumper were not a solid color yellow so I will have to make a decal for them so I needed a white base for the decals. I also touched up some other items.

[MarkJ]

I'm about half way through creating the decals for the model. I started at the nose and am slowly working my way back. There are so many decals on the modern cars. I did come up with a faster way of sizing the decals so that shoud help.

[MarkJ]

Finally got the three decal sheets done. Hopefully I can get them on next weekend.

[Johnny1973]

looking good nice body work

[Matt P]

How are you dong the decals? they look great!!

[MarkJ]

How are you dong the decals? they look great!!

Matt, I created them with an Adobe Photodeluxe 2.0 program and printed them out on an HP 4500 Office jet printer.I got the images from pictures from the internet. I used Testors white decal sheets and will cut out the images as close to the edge as possible. I will touch them up with some decanted paint, as necessary, and then seal them with future.

Edited February 6, 2012 by MarkJ

[Matt P]

Thanks Mark, I have never used the Testors decal sheets, but after seeing this I think I'm gong to give it a try. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of this build.

[MarkJ]

The only reason I use the Testors sheets is because they are readily available at Hobby Lobby and with a 40% off coupon they are not to expensive.They are however pretty hard to work with . That is why i put multiple images on the sheets. If I mess up I don't have to print a whole new sheet. If you build a white car you can use clear sheets and you don't have to cut the image out exactly on its edge.

Edited February 7, 2012 by MarkJ

[MarkJ]

Just to show the difference between a 1:24 scale decal and a 1:25 I found an old goodyear decal from a 1:24 scale sheet and put it above the goodyear decal that I will use that came in the amt snap kit I am using to build this model. Pretty big difference.

An enterprising decal maker that does 1:24 scale decals could reduce his sheets and print them as 1:25 scale. He could offer both sizes to his customers.

[MarkJ]

Finished decaling today. All I lack is installing the roof antenas and sealing the decals with future this Thursday. After that I will take the final pictures and call this one done.

[MarkJ]

The decals turned out pretty good but the bleed through is pretty bad even though they are white sheet decals. I have decided to print three more sheets and do another layer to improve on the bleed through problem.

[MarkJ]

Finally finished. Pictures are in the Nascar section of the forum.

[Car Man]

that is one awsome car u got there

[Jeff B]

What a transformation, nice work.  Feeding my desire to start building Nascar again.  

[Truck parts]

That is a great looking build

[MarkJ]

Thanks Jeff B. for resurrecting this thread. I had forgotten that I had posted wips to this site of this car back in 2012. Brings back good memorys.

[slusher]

Beautifully done..

[RAMBENNA]

fabulous look good