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Molded in colors  

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  1. 1. What is your preferred molded-color of plastic?

    • White and only white
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    • White with some colors for things like suspension and interior components
      7
    • Neutral colors like tan, light grey, light blue and light brown.
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    • Give me the rainbow like Jo-Han and 1980s Revell and Monogram!
      3
    • Barf-o-matic colors like AMT chartreuse.
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  2. 2. Part two of question 1

    • I don't care what color it's molded in. I'll beat it into submission.
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    • I'm color-blind.
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    • Pick this option if neither options 1 or 2 apply to you.
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realgone58 MCM Ohana

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In my opinion, the light greys and tans are the best. You can see where you are sanding, and they are still a light, neutral color that primes over evenly.

Harry P. MCM Ohana

Harry P.

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What's so horrifying about the Pocher Benz black plastic? Or is it just because black is that hard to paint over?

Charlie Larkin

Charlie, Cato was just giving me the business because I said I don't care what color the plastic is, since I paint it anyway. Well... the one time I didn't paint a body is my Pocher Mercedes, and he called me on it! ^_^

The plastic finish was absolutely perfect! I mean, they must have polished those molds to an absolute flawless finish, because the gloss on that bare plastic body was something I knew I could never duplicate with paint. So I left well enough alone (actually, more than well enough!). Here are a few photos... bare plastic, no paint, no polish, no nothing! Just as it came in the box, believe it or not! Check out the reflection of the spare tire in the second photo.

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My only regret is that I don't have a Chicago song title to use here in reference to that shiny plastic...

Oh wait... Baby, what a big surprise! :lol:

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EEeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww-gross! :wacko:

Ya mean to tell me that at your skill level and every trick on earth in that build, ya couldn't out-paint black plastic??

Nahhhh-ain't gonna believe it. You're just getting lazy in your old age. :mellow:

Harry P. MCM Ohana

Harry P.

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EEeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww-gross! :wacko:

Ya mean to tell me that at your skill level and every trick on earth in that build, ya couldn't out-paint black plastic??

Nahhhh-ain't gonna believe it. You're just getting lazy in your old age. :mellow:

Old man, take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you...

Ooops, not a Chicago song! :P

charlie8575 MCM Ohana

charlie8575

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Here ya go... :lol:

That resembles me in the morning. IF, and only if you listened to my students, however, they'd say at least mentality-wise I resembled that any time of day.

Charlie Larkin

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charlie8575

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This seems like a question from the DMV drivers test. I cant pick an answer from part 2 because none of them are correct! :D

When I set this up, I was forced to make two questions to continue with the choices, so I added that last option as a "control."

Charlie Larkin

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Yep. If you could see me now, you would laugh!

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