keefr22 Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 10 hours ago, Snowman said: Who has ever seen a clean rally car in action??😁 If you had, it would probably have been me - I wasn't fast enough to get them dirty...!! Strat is coming along nicely! keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_ Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Interested to see how you go about weathering this. Are you planning mud/dust sprayed up the sides? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windy37 Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Hi . Personally I wouldn’t weather your Stratos . Sometimes I ve seen rally cars on here spoilt by over enthusiastic weathering . It also seems a shame to hide all the hard work of applying the decals . Gary . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowman Posted November 12, 2018 Author Share Posted November 12, 2018 On 06/11/2018 at 11:54, Matt_ said: Interested to see how you go about weathering this. Are you planning mud/dust sprayed up the sides? Hi Matt, I done some research on the matter, and yes definitely down that route. 18 hours ago, Windy37 said: Hi . Personally I wouldn’t weather your Stratos . Sometimes I ve seen rally cars on here spoilt by over enthusiastic weathering . It also seems a shame to hide all the hard work of applying the decals Hi Gary, I sincerely agree! I have seen photo's of the Stratos tearing along and it looks like its has been deep dipped in muck and without the rear body - no, I'm not going down that route! As you say, hiding all those decals under muck would be a crying shame. I hope to do it justice, I'm just steeling myself up for the event with reference photo's. Thanks for your input!👍🍻 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatW Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Hi Snowman. Super job on the build! As a lover of rally cars, I personally would just go round the tread of the tyres with light/dark sand/brown acrylic and along the bottom edge of the body all round. Tarmac stage rather than mucky gravel stage? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowman Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 Thanks for your input, guys! The work continues, in the photo's that I have seen there are hard packed gravel road sections that when wet throw up quite a bit of mud and this what I attempting to replicate. Here are some images of my work in progress. This first image is of the base coat on the machined engineering plastic base that a friend gave to me. (Thanks Brian) under coat by Gavin Snowdon, on Flickr I then painted the base in satin finish black, fitted the Lancia badge and applied the dirt and mounting pins. dirt road by Gavin Snowdon, on Flickr Once this had dried, I applied the mud mix. muddy road by Gavin Snowdon, on Flickr Now I turn my attention to applying the mud and spray to the car. mud been applied by Gavin Snowdon, on Flickr Thanks for looking.👍🍻 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatW Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Oh yes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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