Tamiya Mercedes Benz 300sl 1/24

[Marc Stock]

That's ace, the guy doing similar round here is totally minted haha but I'll bet he has worked for it as you have done.
I install sub sea umbilicals and in the future will be also working intervention equipment for sub sea well trees. Its Ben a poor quiet year over all though.

Sounds good, that must be well paid. Is it dangerous?

[Guest]

Sounds good, that must be well paid. Is it dangerous?

It's not so good terms, I have to work all year in the workshop but my mates only work when away. Pay is OK, nothing crazy. The job Involves dangerous pressures and health and safety is paramount to everything hence my thing with the mask.


I have just sprayed a few things and even with the mask my throat is sore. I think the hiroboy ab cleaner is really strong and seems to go through the mask easily but I don't know much about these things. Just don't want to see anyone get into a bad way with chemicals

[Guest]

That's ace, the guy doing similar round here is totally minted haha but I'll bet he has worked for it as you have done.
I install sub sea umbilicals and in the future will be also working intervention equipment for sub sea well trees. Its Ben a poor quiet year over all though.

Are you hardhelmet or deco diving?


Sadly I've lost my ability to dive now, I was deep rated by SSI (as Padi think anything below 65mts is utterly stupid!) and had just started to switch to rebreather from the old trimix rib set. Got three dives in over north Ireland at 95mts before this accident, now I'm struck off for good.

[Guest]

Ah sorry I've confused you. We make and test the umbilicals from vessels and installations. I don't dive, I'm a wimp apart from destroying my body biking. Brother in law is an air diver and I'm trying to persuade him not to go deeper!

[Marc Stock]

Ok dougie i got a a3 air mask it seemed to keep all at bay. Here is the completed dashboard. Its okay not amazing to be honest very fiddly work on the masking. The paint is very forgiving, its several legues above using enamel. Just have to wait now to harden over the next few days. Will need to do the bottom part the same colour as the interior. So in going to have to mix up some more paint for interior. I can see though the body work is going to be amazing with this paint.

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[Guest]

Looks fantastic mate. Great job. Got a link to your mask? If I can get a better one I will! Can't seem to find an a3 filter for mine

[Marc Stock]

It's a p3 mask not a3 it's the same type of mask as my first one but the 1st was a p1.

[Paul Davies]

Just been reading through this. Great build so far.


Regarding masks for when spraying. If you can still smell any of the paint or cleaner through the mask it is not filtering all the vapour and the mask is not up to scratch. I use a 3m vapour mask designed for paint spraying and can not smell anything. Been using zero paints and zero airbrush cleaner and no smell gets through.

[Marc Stock]

Ok i have completed the dashboard. Bottom strip has been painted the lovely cream leather matching the rest of the leather. For some reason due to handling the top of the dashboard started looking scratched and mucky so i misted over the dashboard again to bring it back to looking crisp and thought to myself better get this glued down so im not temped to handle it further. Bought some latex gloves to minimise finger prints. The steering wheel has a metal ring thats supposed to stick on around the crest in the centre. No matter what i did the flipping thing just wouldn't come off the plastic backing so i pulled it off with tweezers and pinged it across the office forever lost...dough!!


So i masked up the wheel and metalcoaed the centre and poped the crest on. It looks ok i think but im a bit annoyed about that.


Back to how forgiving the zero stuff is. When i did the dash i tried masking off all the chrome, well you dont need to with this paint even though it flashes off within 30 seconds its still quite soft for at least 10 mins. So all i did mask just one chrome part in the middle and go over the whole lot. Immediately after painting i took a cotton bud and rubbed off the paint I wanted to expose as chrome. After this i applied decals and clearcoated.


Hubcaps is next will take the same approach on this.

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[Guest]

Ok i have completed the dashboard. Bottom strip has been painted the lovely cream leather matching the rest of the leather. For some reason due to handling the top of the dashboard started looking scratched and mucky so i misted over the dashboard again to bring it back to looking crisp and thought to myself better get this glued down so im not temped to handle it further. Bought some latex gloves to minimise finger prints. The steering wheel has a metal ring thats supposed to stick on around the crest in the centre. No matter what i did the flipping thing just wouldn't come off the plastic backing so i pulled it off with tweezers and pinged it across the office forever lost...dough!!
So i masked up the wheel and metalcoaed the centre and poped the crest on. It looks ok i think but im a bit annoyed about that.


Back to how forgiving the zero stuff is. When i did the dash i tried masking off all the chrome, well you dont need to with this paint even though it flashes off within 30 seconds its still quite soft for at least 10 mins. So all i did mask just one chrome part in the middle and go over the whole lot. Immediately after painting i took a cotton bud and rubbed off the paint I wanted to expose as chrome. After this i applied decals and clearcoated.


Hubcaps is next will take the same approach on this.

Doing a great job mate, it will be ace looking when finished .


John.

[Guest]

Looking good, especially like the work on the dash board.


You said that the carpet monster ate a little metal ring from around the steering wheel boss? Would carefully applied bare metal foil have been an option?

[Guest]

That looks fantastic

[Marc Stock]

Looking good, especially like the work on the dash board.
You said that the carpet monster ate a little metal ring from around the steering wheel boss? Would carefully applied bare metal foil have been an option?

Hmm yeah I hadn't thought of that. How would I apply bare metal foil to replicate the ring?

[Marc Stock]

Doing a great job mate, it will be ace looking when finished .
John.

Thanks john

[Marc Stock]

That looks fantastic

It's not perfect but I'm getting better every time