albymoore

Nice work on all three models. Love the weathering, Gets the point across without looking like they bathed in an AMMO or AK catalog. Cheers, Albert

Fantastic work as always, Pete. Looks much larger than the one, true scale. Cheers, Albert

Thanks, Keith! Hopefully this one comes together as nicely as the Toyota I just finished. Cheers, Albert

Thank you, Neddy!

Working on the Shane van Gisbergen Camaro that won the inaugural NASCAR Chicago street course race. The process starts with converting the body to replicate the modifications unique to that race. Modifications made to the body include relocating the fuel filler from the driver's side to the passenger side. I removed the kit fuel filler by dragging a #11 Exacto knife blade around the circumference of the filler collar. A section of aluminum tubing was used to make a replacement collar. The spot for the filler was drilled out on the right rear fender and the fuel filler glued in place. The exhaust openings were relocated further back on the rocker panels to just below the B-pillars. The sections removed to make space for the exhaust openings were used to fill the space where the openings were originally molded to the rocker panels. Styrene strip was used to fill the gaps. I'll use sheet styrene to replicate the blanking plates used to cap off the spot where the exhaust openings were originally molded. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Albert

Thank you, Kapam! Cheers, Albert

Thanks all, I appreciate the kudos. I used to build NASCAR models almost exclusively back in the mid 90's through mid 2000's, but that waned when my interest in NASCAR waned by the end of the 2007 season. I just back into following the sport after a 15-year hiatus, so I guess I'm picking up where I left off modeling wise as well. Cheers, Albert

Thank you, Keith! I finished the Beast Unleashed Toyota, which is posted over in the Vehicle RFI subforum. Thanks for following along on this build. Cheers, Albert

Hi All, Just completed my Salvinos JR 1/24th scale NASCAR Toyota Camry TRD stock car, with decals for Tyler Reddick's 'The Beast Unleashed' Hard Monster 6.0% scheme that was run at select events this past NASCAR Cup Series season. This is my first completed NASCAR model since 2001, and the first Salvinos JR model kit I've built. I learned a lot of things that will be applied to the next Salvinos JR NASCAR kit I build, which will be another Beast Unleashed car- specifically Riley Herbst's White Haze-schemed Mustang he drove in the fall Talladega race. The paint is Tamiya TS-14 gloss black, which was decanted and airbrush, wetsanded smooth, and then clearcoated with Testors Lacquer Glosscote (after the decals were applied). For the graphics, I used a 3 Amigos Decal set, which comprised of two sheets- one that had the neon green graphics which needed to be applied over white underlays, and the second sheet had the main graphics, including the impressive eye graphic for the hood. Decals from a Powerslide Modern Stock Cars Goodies set were used for items like the windshield film tear-off tabs, inspection sticker, weight jack location markers, etc. Work in progress thread here- Thanks for looking. Cheers, Albert

Love it! I aways thought those Havoline-sponsored cars looked really sharp, in all thier guises. Nice to see a fellow NASCAR fan here as well. Cheers Albert

And we're back from the dead. This is actually Beast Unleashed Version 2.0. I had a disaster with the first clearcoat in that when I tried buffing the debris out of the clear, it started to lift the clear in chunks. Totally ruined it, suffice it to say. It was my fault though for shoddy prep work and not *actually* learning how to use that particular clearcoat before using it on a model (you know the old axiom- practice on a mule first. I missed that memo). In the process of removing the clearcoat, the decals came off as well. This completely let the air out of my balloon, and almost caused me to shelve this model. The only silver lining in all of this is that the paint was largely unaffected and I didn't have to strip the body back to bare plastic and start ALL over again. So, new decals were ordered, the body wet-sanded to remove any remnants of the previous clearcoat and decals, and we tried again. Success this time! The new decals went on hassle free (much better actually than the first go around), and the clearcoat application went much, much better this time as well. Instead of taking a chance with the Createx 4050 UVLS Gloss (I really need to learn how to apply it before I use it again), I used good old fashion Testors Lacquer Glosscote, thinned 50/50 with Gunze Mr. Color Leveling Thinner. After six coats of clear, this is the result; This is probably one of the smoothest finishing jobs I have had straight from the airbrush. I'm going to give this a week to fully cure, then I'll buff the bits of debris from the clearcoat. All that will be left to do after buffing the body is add the windows, spoilers, and bumper camera fairings. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Albert

What a lovely looking build. The finish really looks good. You captured that "daily use" vibe nicely in this scale. Cheers, Albert

Sharp looking Scooter. The finish looks especially good. Cheers, Albert

Thank you, Keith!

The Beast Unleashed is clearcoated. I used Createx UVLS 4050 Gloss, with their own reducer. While this wasn't the disaster that I thought applying the clearcoat was going to be, it also wasn't exactly what I wanted either. Still, it's done. Now to let it cure over the next few days, then I can buff and polish out the clear and wrap up this model. On a related note, the clearcoat really brought out the eye graphic on the hood nicely. Cheers, Albert