1/8 Scale my first time ever

[james pithouse]

Well update, now sprayed black metallic on tank. After this there will be a last coat, off spray paint to go on this and that's the end colour for the tank, you will have to wait and see what the tank colour is going to be, so enjoy.

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[james pithouse]

sprayed tank red. and this happened now got to start again red not sticking to black just running off.:sad::sad::sad:

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[Guest]

oops!
The kit is ok but far from accurate as Harleys go.
I have the kit and my sprue with the forks on it is NOT chromed. Not cool.
Have fun with it as it builds up ok .

[james pithouse]

took tank back to basic white then I'm. going back to spraying it black matt then matillic and leaving it at that.

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[Guest]

Looks like grease or something on the tank, that's a hell of a gap in the first pic I would never have sprayed it till that was filled anyway Jim.

[JR]

James, bet that was a blow after all that work. Did you wipe it down with a cloth before painting, i'd use a cloth dampened in a little IPA , not full strength, or a little thinners. Let it dry then apply a thin coat.
Ken quite right with his remark about the gap, have you any filler, it would dry in no time, something like.

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Would do the trick.
Looking fwd to the next up date. Keep it going mate.
John.

[james pithouse]

No. I sprayed be for gluing it together, that's why there is a gap. But now I've gone back to base I'll try some thing different, even the spray are acrylic but going to try on scrap first to see if my idea comes out ok. You'll see soon enough. My mad idea is. If it works

[Guest]

Jim I would always glue something like that before spraying. If you spray first you will have to spray it again once glued together and you have removed the seam lines (which you always get on something like that)

[james pithouse]

Well done what you, said Ken glued it together then painted it gold leaf tamiya x-12 waiting for paint to dry over night, then the madness will kick in wait and see. But for now here is up date

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[james pithouse]

Well Guy's here is the update, and my madness worked. And I am happy with it, so enjoy

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[Guest]

As I said Jim if you had sprayed the gold on top of the stencil you would not have got the bleeding underneath of the black. It's a great try though Jim. Well done for not going via the instructions. You get a much more individual and different kit that way. This has probably been built oob a thousand times but yours will be an original.

[james pithouse]

Thanks ken. Model has not turned up yet, hoping it will be here tomorrow. I'll leave the bit's I found for you so far, in the front room. So you can pick them up at some point and if your coming down on saturday or sunday. I'll look in the loft for the other trains, as I do not finish work till 4pm Saturday

[james pithouse]

The gold leaf is a paint pot, not spray that's why I painted it, on first

[Guest]

You could have painted the gold over the stencil as well it would have worked the same.

[james pithouse]

Never thought off that. Ho well next time, I'll remeber that.