Revell Golf GTI mk1 1975

[Marc Stock]

Not too bad. I wasn't overly happy with the masking lines, it wasn't clean enough for my liking there was some small bleeding issues that I just could not seem to rectify. I think it's because I'm using a white against a black and it's very noticeable even the tiniest bleeding. My original idea was to use black thread to tidy up the lines and make it look sharp, but the wife gave me red and yellow thread also, so I wanted to add a small but of custom look to the interior. I painted pva in the lines and layed it and went over with a gloss varnis to seal it in.

Here is an update on the body work, roof have now been sanded with 3000 grit ready for clear coat. Just got the rest of the body to sand it took me 4 hours to do the roof so a lot more time yet.

Will be buying a decent airbrush at the end of the month. My cheapo humbrol one just isn't good enough for the finish I want.

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[eddiesolo]

Some great techniques used there Marc, coming along a treat mate.

Si

[Marc Stock]

Feeling a little discouraged tonight. Been trying to get the lines correct for masking the wheel arches. Problem I'm having is the knife I'm using is so sharp that it's impossible to follow a curve on the arches consistently. Has anyone got any tips? I had to wipe off my work with thinners.

[Marc Stock]

Ok so I rubbed down the wheel arches again, this time to bare plastic. Re-masked as best as I could and put on the topcoat as it was a mess with my first attempt at doing the arches.

Now ready for clear coat, I have a few small runs to sort out which I will do with finishing paper and a couple of touch ups to do with the paintbrush which I will then smooth off with finishing paper also. But I'm done with the painting of the body now.

I thought I'd start on the grille and I feel I have redeemed myself a little bit as it went perfectly. The new 05 revell brush helped a lot as I opted to paint the red stripe and not use the decal. The headlights I painted silver metallic with a spot of copper on the bulbs just to make them pop a little, the lenses got the humbrol clear varnish treatment to make them sparkle and I decided to paint the vw badge silver metallic instead of the factory black gloss again to make it pop a bit I never understood why they opted to paint this bit black on the original car myself.

The GTI decal was supposed to be put right onto the grille but there was a problem with that, the ridges on the grill would cause issues with decal cracking, and the possibility of getting a corner folded into a ridge was high and would have ruined the look of the model. So I used a non used part from one of the sprues and cut it down to a badge blank, slid the decal onto that and then sealed it with varnish and glued it to the grille instead.

When I do the gloss coat I'm going to mask the wheel arches again to get practice on getting my lines right and paint them last (not looking forward to that bit)

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[Marc Stock]

Bit more on the car.

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[Marc Stock]

Finished the dashboard. The dials were particularly fiddly to do.

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[Guest]

Thats looking very tidy

[Marc Stock]

Thanks mate. I didn't think so but looking at it again it's not too bad. I pick up my new airbrush tomorrow I'm well excited

[Guest]

That's looking way cool.

scott

[Marc Stock]

Some more progress beginning to see the details coming together.

I opted for paintbrush on floors and and parcel shelf and roof lining to give it a texture like fabric. The seats I'm going to airbrush.

The car body still isn't as I'd like. I think I'm going to rub down a third time and go over with my much more expensive airbrush to hopefully active a flawless finish for clear coat.

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[Guest]

Thats looking good, love all the pics, helping me more than you know

[Marc Stock]

Test fitting painted windscreen. Going to need to do a bit of filing on the opening as the paint has made the windscreen stick out a little bit. But it's looking okay.

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[Marc Stock]

Picked up my new airbrush today.

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[The Migrant]

Just catching up on this thread, Marc, it's looking really good. The whole grille/headlights assembly looks great.

[Marc Stock]

Well an update. I think I have got the body how I want it to be, it's not 100% how I'd like it but it's the best I can achieve with my current skill levels and capabilities I have made a huge number of mistakes but I'm learning from them and my next model should be a major improvement.

The new airbrush was in fact a huge learning curve. It took hours of fiddling with the spray pattern to get it right, I experimented with two finishes humbrol clear and gloss coat with thinners. I had to disassemble the brush a couple of times to clean it, which was nerve wracking also.

Humbrol clear was easy to apply,but it was not a durable enough surface. So I rubbed down and tried humbrol gloss with thinners, it resulted in a much harder surface on curing and was much better in my opinion.

Once finished I gave a light rub with 3000 grit, then a hit soapy wash.

I then went over with kiddies toothpaste equivalent to using a 6000 rubbing compound, and a final buff with autoGlyn deep shine.

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