Stefee's 1/24 Tamiya Castrol Toyota TOM'S Supra GT

[langy71]

Shell ????

[Stefee]

Sounds like Castor Oil

[yak face]

Looking excellent stefan , despite Tamiyas best efforts to sabotage it with the dodgy decals . I love this mark of Supra and the castrol livery always looks brilliant , takes me back to when I used to race them ( ps1 - gran turismo !)

[Stefee]

Looking excellent stefan , despite Tamiyas best efforts to sabotage it with the dodgy decals . I love this mark of Supra and the castrol livery always looks brilliant , takes me back to when I used to race them ( ps1 - gran turismo !)

Thank you for the kind remarks, I always favoured a highly modified Mitsubishi FTO, the only one I could keep on the tarmac when I used to game.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Great job Stefan. There is some tricky contours to follow on some of those decals. Looks amazing.

[Stefee]

There is some tricky contours to follow on some of those decals. Looks amazing.

Thanks. The decals seem very brittle to me and don't settle into contours well with Microsol in comparison with Revell or Italieri decals. Of course it might be something I am doing incorrectly.

[simontie]

Body ”shell” !!

[adt70hk]

That's looking pretty good despite all the decal problems. I'm not a huge fan of their decals either...... Certainly in the planes and tank I have done, far too thick!

Good luck with the rest of the build.

[Stefee]

I'm not a huge fan of their decals either...... Certainly in the planes and tank I have done, far too thick!

Too thick you say, that makes perfect sense regarding non conformance to the surface contours even when soaked. I shall go with that explanation instead of blaming my technique!!!!
Let's hope the 2k clearcoat can help hide the "irregularities".

[adt70hk]

Too thick you say, that makes perfect sense regarding non conformance to the surface contours even when soaked. I shall go with that explanation instead of blaming my technique!!!!
Let's hope the 2k clearcoat can help hide the "irregularities".

They are ridiculously thick..... As people far more experienced than me can testify..... Every forum I have been on has repeated complaints about them.

[Stefee]

Well everything that needed to be white/decaled and/ or gloss has been done. The 2k clear has helped to lessen the decal disasters thankfully.
Off into the airing cupboard, after off gassing the solvents overnight, for 11 days to fully cure whilst in hopefully sunnier and drier climes.
Probably the last post for a while but will try to follow the builds if the hotel WiFi is good enough.

[Stefee]

Got back from holiday a week ago to some horrendous news, next door neighbour suddenly passed away and 2 hours later was told my god daughter had been found dead in her flat in Switzerland, wish I hadn't come home.
Anyway after sorting out various things decided to do a bit of modelling to take my mind off things for a while.
Prepped, primed and painted various suspension, brake and driveline parts and assembled most of the front end. Used kitchen foil to represent the heat shield on the underfloor and tried, for the first time, to heat stain the exhaust pipe - not 100% happy with it but it'll do.

[Mark1]

Not good news mate but the exhaust looks good.

[yak face]

Sorry to hear the bad news stefan . The build is looking great , love the heat stained exhaust and heat shield . Cheers tony

[Andy T]

Sad news Stefan, I hope you're modelling brings some distraction.