RandyD Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 WOW !! Wonderful decal work Sir. Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 Cheers folks, I haven't managed any updates on here for a while so here goes. Next up I gave the inside of the car a coat of Tamiya X-18 Semi Gloss Black. Then I masked up the black area round the side windows and added a few decals. Next up will be a couple of coats of Zero Paints Clear Coat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 Then I eventually fitting the door cards, I finished them off a while ago, but had to wait until the shell was more complete. Next up was the rear spoiler. Here's all the parts before painting and assembly. All the parts were then painted with Tamiya Semi-Gloss Black. The carbon decal kit I bought from Racing Decals, included all the decals for the rear spoiler. I applied these then gave them a matt coat of the new formula Klear. I've added the spoiler uprights to the car, and I'll add the spoiler to the car at latter date as no doubt, I'll knock the thing off if I put it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 Next up all the lower body panels completed and attached to the main chassis. I've still to weather these ever so slightly To check the fit of the main body, but mainly I couldn't resist looking to see how it looked, I laid the body on the chassis. The rear lights are in The front light lenses are also in Next up is mounting the cabin, weathering (I've started it on the front cowl, where I'm looking for the effect of dirt and brake dust coating the body). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 (edited) So today was mostly taken up with painting and decaling all the winglets that go on the car. The carbon kit from Racing Decals covers these. One thing though they certainly needed a fair bit of fettling to get them to fit properly. Here's a pic of the side winglets. Next, I thought it give the weathering a go. Now I'm a complete novice when it comes to this, so please excuse my poor efforts. The look I'm going for is a car that's finished a race and has a lighting/moderate covering of dirt and carbon brake dust. Here's the front clip, I used Tamiya Smoke spraying it a varying pressures and distances from the car. It doesn't show that well in the photos and is a lot darker in real life. I added a wee bit more weathering and added the front winglets, and that's the front clip finished. Next up the was the remainder of the exhausts, these were painted up in Vallejo Dark Aluminium, and shaded with Tamiya Smoke, Clear Blue and Alclad Violet. They were then fitted to the chassis. Then the hassle started, the exhausts looked lovely but the main tub just wouldn't fit with them in place. I didn't take any pics of this as I was severely t'eed off. I eventually had to sand half of the silencer off, arghhhh. In the end I managed to get the interior tub fitted. That's it for the moment, hopefully I'll get the shell on tomorrow. Again thanks for popping by and giving the car a look. Edited May 17, 2017 by Flipper 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shood23 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Looking great and the weathering is on point. Shaun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGTC Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Looks good man! Weathering looks good. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 Cheers folks, I feel like I'm on the final straight with the M3. Next up was all the glass work. Firstly I masked up all the glass for the black edges to be painted. I masked up all the centres and sprayed the glass Tamiya X-18 Semi Gloss Black. I then fitted them to the car using Microscale Krystal Kleer. As there is a decal to go on the top of the windscreen, I scuffed it with a blue soft Flory Sander. I then applied the sun-strip decals to the tops of the front and rear screens, and the rear side windows. I then fitted the front and rear wheels, the brakes and centre bolt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 Well folks it's finally finished. As you can see I've added a bit of weathering to the car, probably a bit much, but it's my first time doing this as I normally only do shiney stuff. Anyway I'll post up final reveal photos tomorrow. So again thanks folks and I hope you like it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shood23 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 (edited) Looks great to me flipper. I think you suffer from what most of us modellers suffer from... being overly self critical. Shaun Edited May 25, 2017 by shood23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGTC Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Looks great man! Don't think the weathering looks to much, those cars get really dirty after a race. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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