Model car Quick Build Round 2 May 2nd finish

Body is primered and the cockpit and undersides have their first coats of paint. The tires in the background are for the M6.

Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Mazdax605 :

They are telling you to paint the shaded area of the window part black (or whatever color 57 is) before installing. You will want to paint the body first. 

What about the masking seal part, I'm not following what they mean?

In reply to Mazdax605 :

There may be something in the kit to mask off the windows, or use tape to cover the parts of the windows that need to stay clear.

Also I removed the chrome from the front bull bar so I can make it white like my Delica. Not sure if I should paint these white or leave them as it. 

In reply to Mazdax605 :

Oh man, it''s really cool that they include window masks. I wish all kits came with something like that.

slowbird said:

In reply to Mazdax605 :

Oh man, it''s really cool that they include window masks. I wish all kits came with something like that.

I still don't understand what I'm supposed to do with them though. What am I painting on the window that I need a mask? I mean I can paint the body with the windows out of it, so I guess I'm just really confused.

In reply to Mazdax605 :

You put the masks on the windows and then paint the whole glass piece. Then peal the masks off. It makes the black trim around the windows. Completely different thing than painting the body itself.

In reply to Mazdax605 :

Also paint the bull bars. You never want to leave bare plastic, it's super noticable.

You're doing great! That's a tough kit and you're soldiering on. Good work.

Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Mazdax605 :

You put the masks on the windows and then paint the whole glass piece. Then peal the masks off. It makes the black trim around the windows. Completely different thing than painting the body itself.

Oh, that make sense now. Of course now I need to figure out which side to put the mask on, and paint. Also these masks are probably not adhesive backed. That would be too convenient.

Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Mazdax605 :

Also paint the bull bars. You never want to leave bare plastic, it's super noticable.

You're doing great! That's a tough kit and you're soldiering on. Good work.

Probably wasn't wise to tackle this kit after not doing any modeling for 20+ years. Maybe I'll switch to the FC RX-7 I have. The only reason I thought about leaving the bare plastic is the fact that the bull bar on my Delica isn't really pure white(even though it probably should be).

Hey can you guys recommend a lighted magnifying glass for model building? Looking at Amazon, and there are so many choices.

In reply to Mazdax605 :

The masks usually are adhesive backed actually. Usually they go on the outside of the windows. Make sure you paint from the same side.

In reply to Mazdax605 :

I have a non LED version of something very similar to this:

LED Magnifying Lamp with Clamp

Magnifying glass is a great idea, wish I thought of it. One thing that has changed since I last built a car is my eyesight. Now I wear bifocals but up-close vision with them isn't that great. I am spending a lot of time looking over my glasses to make sure the part I'm painting is completely covered.

Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Mazdax605 :

The masks usually are adhesive backed actually. Usually they go on the outside of the windows. Make sure you paint from the same side.

That could be to paint the black "surround" that's on a lot of glass, usually from the inside.

Like this 

The glass is bigger than what you can see through. 

The white plastic will fade to an ugly beige/tan if left exposed to sunlight. I've had some success painting raw plastic with clearcoat and having it look good. Did it to a Monogram CJ-7 becaust I couldn't find the "Levi's blue" color back then. Also did it to a '77 Trans Am which looked better than any paint job I could have done. Still, I'd paint those things white. Otherwise they will look like plastic instead of steel.

I really should get started on my next kit soon. Hoping to have everything in primer by the weekend.

Non-clear headlights are annoying. The center piece is clear but the marker lights are just molded in. I'm trying various things to try to make them look less terrible, but it's hard.

The notchback was a completely different set of tooling from the older kits like this one, and it had pieces at least sort of approximating springs. The older ones, though, just have solid plastic rods molded into the axles. I'm not going to do anything with the front, but I scribed and sanded the rears in a spiral pattern and then painted them to make them look sorta like springs.

Before:

After:

Wow that left side looks rough. It's not like they'll be very visible once assembled, though.

Finally, here's a color you've likely never seen on an SVO.

Berk it, I cracked open my kit tonight!



Here it is: the 1992 F150 Flareside I posted about earlier. This one comes with glue and paint, but I'll be using other stuff.



All the baggies out of the box. The first thing I noticed was the smell. It smelled like my childhood! I don't know what it was, but one whiff brought me back to sitting in my parents's basement living room, at the bar (they have a wet bar down there), and cracking open a new kit I purchased with my dad at Hobbytown USA in the Hanover Mall (both places are now gone). Pure nostalgia.



The second thing I noticed is how much better the quality of this kit was than the Trans Am I just finished. Everything is really nice, and there's no extra flashing to speak of on anything. The surfaces look great too, so on goes the primer.


Speaking of primer, I ran out, but not before I was able to cover everything. I'll be able to work with this. Again, the quality of this kit is impressive.

I have some other projects that have bubbled up in the past week, but I'm hoping to hammer this thing out by the deadline.



 

It's getting there. 

I managed to sneak off this afternoon and find some paint thinner so now I can use brushes, and yellow spray paint for the body of my El Camino. I did not find model glue so I might have to order some off Amazon now that the local Walmart has let me down.

The black paint seems to be going on kinda thin when brushing on, so a lot of the stuff I painted tonight will likely need a second coat down the road. That's a small price to pay for not having to actually buy new paint.

I figured I should see if the old glue is viable, so I glued some things together. I noticed that a lot of the rear end components were all supposed to be gloss black, so I put that assembly together and then it can be painted all at once. So now we have stuff that's been glued; we'll see how well it holds up tomorrow or the next time I sit down to work on this.

Other than that, it's paint paint paint as now most of the stuff that's supposed to be gloss black is gloss black, and the stuff that's supposed to be steel is steel. Flat black is the next and that'll be a lot of stuff. I hope we get a decent day so I can take all the interior stuff outside and shoot that semi-gloss black, then I can start pecking away at interior details. Eventually I'll think about actual bodywork on the actual body.

In reply to slowbird :

Paint the marker lights with Tamiya Clear Orange. If you don't have that, orange sharpie is close enough. The translucence makes it look like a lense.

BTW the green is pimp!

In reply to Aaron_King :

Porsche!

There is a world of difference in kits tooled from around the mid-1980s and up and those from the 'golden' period of the 60s-70s. Once again I think the Japanese (Tamiya specifically) forced the domestics to up their game.

This channel has a lot of videos on the histories of the various manufacturers. He leans towards aircraft but does a good job of researching the histories and many mergers of the domestic companies. He's now doing a series on the foreign brands. His look at Tamiya and their high standards was particularly interesting.

Max's Models

I'm in for this round! 

I just ordered this off eBay - this 1988 release has my favorite box art, probably because I was born in 87 and remember seeing my dad working on models in these boxes as a youngster. 

I don't think it's an especially nice kit, but hopefully I'll have it in time to put it together for this contest.