Hi @garybrantley, @anthonyricco, @johnb, @fiveten, thanks for looking. Although I haven’t posted much recently, I have in fact made some progress with the body work. It’s basically a big lump of resin with some detail bits, grills, vents, lights, etc, to be added.
So, I first deepened the panel lines with my new Tamiya scribing blades, so as to ensure they will still be visible after numerous coats of primer, gloss, and clear finishes.
I followed this with a light sanding, Tamiya 3000 sanding sponge, and a good scrubbing with some of the local alcohol.
Then a coat of Tamiya primer, more light sanding, three or four coats of gloss white from the spray can, let it dry for a couple of days, and apply the transfers (decals).
These came off the backing paper pretty quickly but were not too keen on being adjusted once on the model. They were very thin though.
Again left for a couple of days to dry, and followed by a coat of semi gloss clear from the spray can, this was to protect them before applying any gloss clear.
After another couple of days I applied three coats of clear gloss and left it to dry for a week. Then polished it up with Tamiya finishing polish, and it looks like this.
In the meantime, guess what, Tamiya have announced a kit for exactly the same car!
Oh well, that’s life I suppose.
Plenty more to come, happy modelling.
