seanrx

Great looking build and your previous posts, also great builds. Suggestions? What about a group photo of all your builds. Always good to view a pack of race cars.

How are you proceeding with the Nascar? Am definitely keen to see which car your building. Am into slabsiding and bodyshell mods at the moment and just got some colourcoat finally sprayed.

Buy a custom filled can. Use the Ford code number, I do this for all my bodyshells. The shop just needs a number. 400ml, £14-15. Enough contents for a repaint too.

Thanks all. It is great looking car to end 2023 with. A dark red and gold mix, I think will always look smart as a race livery. There is a ton of clearcoat on this, due to all the debris I had to sand out. Wet sanding it all was monotonous. And some of the decal edges, they still chipped off whilst handling. Pah! Next year, will be a Taurus (just to paint the chassis) and perhaps another, to post as a pair. And of my kit stash, just another thirty odd to build. Hoh!

At last, my 1990 Mark Martin Folgers car. A great looking scheme, using the sumptuous (a great word) Powerslide decals. Paint is a half price no name rattlecan from my local paint shop. And looks great. The thin gold striping only, I cleared over. Then applied the remainder without a final clear. And a window net to replace the ugly moulded grid of the kit. The grille decal, I applied to plastic card and stuck that across the moulded indent. And if you know your T -Bird NASCAR's, I filled in the wide indent/intake under the headlights. I like it, something different.

More NASCAR's! That's a great looking build. The eye decal really pops.👍

Thanks for comments. And those Havoline cars, I have the black and white version to build sometime. A great looking scheme. But first have to finish my current builds, am always working on something. Hopefully a #6 Folgers by end of the year.

And another black paint finish. My 1991 Davey Allison ride. Using the Powerslide decals over a Signal Black. And I picked the 91 version as this was the year that i first watch NASCAR and see this car, on the old Sky dish t.v! Good to finally have an Allison car. Back in the 90's I failed a paint job of it. No final clear coat over these decals. The following photo, still an off black shade but it (luckily) doe'snt have the purple tint of my Army car even though I used the same aerosol. But this below, when CA gluing the window bars while body is on chassis. Pah! Right on the #2. Luckily, when on display it can't be seen.

Well spotted. I went searching for images and found yet another different hood design. You can see the tail in this one. This may be my favourite!

From eBay, this excellent tinned Nascar kit. With fresh decals too. I was hoping the tin would have protected the sheet all these years and it has. These are in great condition, no yellowing. I'll paint and decal just the bonnet, if all good then continue with the body.

Stratford-upon-Avon. Is 35 miles south of Birmingham. Everyone loves Shakespeare, do they not?!

For 90's BTCC, I have to agree. The TV coverage, spectator numbers and the wider interest for it. And U.S. NASCAR racing too, the 90's were it's best years. Sky and the BSB 'squarial' giving a wider UK audience. But what of F1, Indy and rallying? Were the 90's also their best decade?

I agree. This great looking Meineke Lumina, I've owned it's decals for 27 years and am reshaping the kits front bumper area right now. May attempt a slabside conversion, unsure as yet.

Thanks very much. These post 2000 cars are great to build, though their current £50 price means I won't build another. I was lucky, paid only £25 for this Monte'. I do have the Folgers and Havoline cars almost ready. Having a bodyshell painting lucky streak at the moment!

Yet more NASCAR. Early 90's kits for some Allison #28 cars amongst others and the Batman decals for a 96 T Bird. These are all Cartograph printed. This #94, will have to make a slabside conversion of the bodyshell to fit the sill stripes. And this decal set for the 89/90 black and white #28T Bird. Lovely foil printing.