Oh, nope. I didn't realize that was a live sale. And I have too many unbuilt boxes in the stack. My son's off at college now so we don't get the modeling time together - it was more fun that way. I just looked on the shelf - I have the ultimate 914, a Tamiya Carrera GT - that one will be pure black with leather seats. There's a Tamiya Ferrari F-40, the two Fujimi Porsche RS kits, and a vintage Revell '59 Impala convertible in a bizarre 1:32 scale. It has a shitload of chrome on it, so we bought that chrome foil to try - it looks really difficult if you ask me.
I want to build a nice 917 sometime, but not the #23 LeMans winner, mostly because of those scary-looking white spikey decals on it. I like the #3 silver Martini 917 that won Sebring - Vic Elford.
Then a wild Lancia Delta appeared! Always loved that funky, fast, rally-winning thing. Decided I wanted a street version of the rally car, sort of a sleeper instead of covered with race graphics.
I made a lot of mistakes and learned a bunch on this one.
Here's what we use to spray bodies - just a coat hanger wire frame. For a lot of pieces, we have bent wire hooks hanging off a pipe on the basement ceiling - but then you spray a cloud of paint dust all over everything in the basement. Then we made a cardboard "hood" of a thing to fit behind the spray stand. We never got to the airbrush level of expense or skilz.
Airplane models give you advantages in rallying.
The kit came in all red plastic for some reason, like you'd leave it raw plastic? I wanted a nice dark grey, but couldn't find the shade. My son had this cool battleship grey but it was matte. I used that and then tried to sand smooth and spray gloss clear over that, and made kind of a mess. Sanded a lot of detail off the body, sadly. Had to wet-sand the clear so much that I went through the color layer - ARGH! Gave up, went with a cool Tamiya dark burgundy. I'll look for the finished pics somewhere.
Battleship grey and orange peel.
That rally-winning AWD suspension!
I want to build a nice 917 sometime, but not the #23 LeMans winner, mostly because of those scary-looking white spikey decals on it. I like the #3 silver Martini 917 that won Sebring - Vic Elford.
Then a wild Lancia Delta appeared! Always loved that funky, fast, rally-winning thing. Decided I wanted a street version of the rally car, sort of a sleeper instead of covered with race graphics.
I made a lot of mistakes and learned a bunch on this one.
Here's what we use to spray bodies - just a coat hanger wire frame. For a lot of pieces, we have bent wire hooks hanging off a pipe on the basement ceiling - but then you spray a cloud of paint dust all over everything in the basement. Then we made a cardboard "hood" of a thing to fit behind the spray stand. We never got to the airbrush level of expense or skilz.
Airplane models give you advantages in rallying.
The kit came in all red plastic for some reason, like you'd leave it raw plastic? I wanted a nice dark grey, but couldn't find the shade. My son had this cool battleship grey but it was matte. I used that and then tried to sand smooth and spray gloss clear over that, and made kind of a mess. Sanded a lot of detail off the body, sadly. Had to wet-sand the clear so much that I went through the color layer - ARGH! Gave up, went with a cool Tamiya dark burgundy. I'll look for the finished pics somewhere.
Battleship grey and orange peel.
That rally-winning AWD suspension!
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