Subaru 98 Monte Carlo - beginners recovery attempt.

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Bought some alclad lacquer today and have 2 test pieces on the go which I am being brutal with to see what I can get away with. Wish I bought the 1k but I only heard about the 2k and how dodgy it is so avoided looking at their lacquers .


This has had another coat of primer as of earlier, I had realised the skirt along the bumper had no scribed line where I had filled the lower lights. It looks better than in this photo. I am learning a lot about how not to prime before building haha


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That's the primer on again, hopefully now ready for the last major sanding and light priming.


I have learned a good bit about why its best to dry fit extra parts and prime them first as I ended up filling in wee bits at the valance at the bottom, chipped paint after adding the vent and spoiler and have problems with bits of flakes of plastic in the door and bonnet lines I re-scribed.


I couldn't make my mind up about adding some parts later (spoiler and bonnet vent) but thought to glue them better I would rub off some paint and glue them on before painting leaving the bonnet light attachment until after painting as it would interfere with painting the light recesses. I should have fitted the light covers later with a suitable glue as there are probably meant to be lines around them but they would not have been a perfect fit, especially with a good few layers of paint on. - One thing I am chuffed with is the textured dash, I thought the straight paint looked awful and most dashes have a slight texture so I used a bit of foam with Grey enamel paint to make it rough and it looks really good... Yes the dash is my show piece!


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Have done a wee bit of the dash work over the last couple of nights when I can grab 5 mins. my Brush painting skills are terrible and I can't get the best ratio of thinners to paint with the Tamiya stuff so one brush stroke goes on, the next takes half off - too much thinner I think? :/ The body has had a tad more sanding but again I've missed a few wee bits so those will be sorted then its ready for painting but I still cannot decide on the best course of action as I'm being told contrasting opinions on what clear coating I can and can't use and some of my test pieces have proved that I need to try something different.


You can see I got some printed panel for the floor where I lost the Photo etch piece years ago, the dash has a good bit more painting to go and I put some clear on the dash insert for adding a decal tomorrow maybe. Enjoying the learning curve.


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Thats looking proper tasty i tell ya

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I think for a recovery it's not bad but I prefer chocolate for tastyness!


I bought 3 more recovery models fir practice on eBay...


An italeri hokum


An academy apache


a Tamiya Ferrari 360


The hokum and Ferrari have small amounts built but less than this hunk of junk!


Cheers

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I think for a recovery it's not bad but I prefer chocolate for tastyness!
Cheers

Mmmmm.... Chocolate, just had me a packet of Munchies.... Top that

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Mmmmm.... Chocolate, just had me a packet of Munchies.... Top that

Missus brought me home a Greg's donut which I ate half of and I had a couple of m&m's after painting... Touche haha.


I'm a chocoholic. Never going into rehab

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Tonight I have tried to hide the poor seat finishing with some flocking - the idea being that it looks like Alcantara. It has gone... ok... sort of. It took a good few tries to get a good enough coverage and as I thought- the flocking looks out of scale. I did hear a tip on another forum that painting and adding flour on top before it dries then airbrushing the flour can give a good effect, maybe this will be the route I take next time.


As for now this is the result (I'm not sure whether it looks better or worse in the palstic!):


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This is looking good so far.


scott

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the engine bay from here is not good haha, forgive me father for it was done when I was stupider o_O - I wish I had of known about thinning the Tamiya paint or airbrushing for the radiator as the paint was way too thick and filled the detail up.

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Have had a mare with the decals, I mind having one earlier when I started this. I wasted all the spares practising and got no where but eventually I got a couple to work. I think I need to soak the tamiya decals for near a minute then leave them sitting on the desk for about 5-10 mins, seems totally mental but at that point they actually slide without breaking. I now have a broken one and 2 reasonable ones on the dash- it should now be ready for a bit of dry brushing over vents etc.. but do I gloss first, dry brush then matt gloss? There are gloss, matt and semi gloss paints here so I'm not sure.


I could do with advice thanks!


[GALLERY=media, 8252]IMAG0626 by dougie posted Feb 28, 2015 at 1:21 PM[/GALLERY]

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That's the helmet holder and the electrics plate installed along with the door panels. I have the roll cage drying from a coat of primer, just deciding whether or not to fill and sand the wee pin marks on the top of the cage where you won't see them. (conscience says yes but the condition of the rest of the model says no!) Still think the seats don't look good as the scale of the fibres is off but it would have been ok for carpets in a normal motor. They still look better than they did before though.


As you can see I have also painted the inside of the windows - a tiny tiny touch up may be required on one bit but its barely noticeable.


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Painted the shell last night, partially!!! I was in the model shop yesterday and picked up a few things and decided I had enough Mica blue left to do the body.


Wrong!


I have run out of paint with only the tiniest bit at the bottom of the doors showing through from the previous mist coat. DAMNIT! forgetting that - there was not enough to get a full on good 'wet coat' of which I need about 2-3 apparently. There is now some orange peel because of that but - overall I'm really happy with it for a first paint job on a body.


I may make it to the shop this afternoon, my technique and spray order are to blame but I have learned a good bit just painting this model so far, I wasted a lot of paint spraying smaller individual parts - next time they will be mounted on foam and sprayed together if using a spray can. too much waste if not.


On the positive side - my dust extractor I threw together works a treat. I put it on an hour before going in to the shed to paint and even with the paint booth running not a single dust particle is obvious in the paint- I can see 2 small possible run marks but nothing else so I am really really happy with that outcome as its the biggest thing to me to get clean paint on the body of cars!!!


Cheers to anyone reading.


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Its looking good Dougie...... You seem to be the biggest critic of your work, like me, which is no bad thing, i learnt more from my first build than i would have by asking a thousand questions...... This is a great thread for me, as its the scooby next for me..... But not in mica blue..... Looking forward to more

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Cool, will be good to see one in a different colour. The build quality seems good and if you have a better approach than me it should go together easy. Look forward to seeing yours