New build, engine components primed, ready for their coat of Flat Aluminum and Deep Green.




Engine does lack detail, and there were some seam issues, but otherwise it went together fine.
Body - Quite a few sink holes which had to be filled


No body colour decided yet, any ideas? Its between Black, Blue, Green, Green/Gold Pristmatic
Cheers

Loobes

The prismatic green/gold is a beautiful color, but I'm not sure it will be a good choice for this particular car. I would go for blue.

Thanks Jesper, any particular blue? Tamiya recommend a Royal Blue for this car
Engine was about 5 pieces, done and painted

Hi Lewis

Tamiya's royal blue would be a good choice.Or perhaps one of Humbrols shades of blue. French blue and moonlight blue
http://www.humbrol.com/paints/enamel-paints/aq0160-14-french-blue-50ml-gloss-enamel-tinlet/
http://www.humbrol.com/paints/enamel-paints/aa7222-222-moonlght-blue-14ml-metallic-enamel-tinlet/

I have used humbrol Baltic blue before, and while they are good paints, i looking to experiment with laquers, Royal Blue looks nice

Possibly
Tamiya French Blue?

I think Tamiyas french blue would be an excellent choice.

Nice build so far Lewis.
Prismatic paint to "me" is kinda like the old controversy whether a '32 ford should be build stock or custom...while the owner has all calls on it, the public may disagree....in other words....certain classic cars just shouldn't be painted with prismatic to keep they're charm. My Morgan build would really have been set off by a prismatic paint job with that swoopy body, but the purist in me couldn't do it. -but, that's just me.
Your model, your call.........and you can always build another same kit in the opposite type of paint scheme later just to satisfy any curiousities you may have. Some day I want to try my hand at a combo paint scheme where the flip-flop paint colors would compliment a standard color like fenders to a body.

Ok guys, i have gone and ordered Tamiya French Blue, should be here by the weekend when i will be laying down the primer coats and initial body coats. Will be using this and this for reference...

Excellent reference. Lookng forward to seeing some color on the body.

They are very good tutorials, first time following them using lacquers so it should be interesting. Rattle can has arrived So i should start priming the body at the weekend as the body needs to be painted before all he suspension etc goes in

Righty hooo, Priming stages....

Before

Wet sand with 1500grit

Wash


Dry

Found some work that needed doing right before priming...

So first coat of primer - only misted on to bring out flaws

Sanding down flaws


Second coat of primer is down, drying currently, then it will be a wet sand and a white primer coat

All the mistcoats down, tomorrow i will begin wetcoats, bit concerned that the paint isnt gloss; will this affect how deep the shine is after clear coats polish etc?

Pics, after three mist coats and a 4000 grit wet sand, looks shinier in real life though...


In the first picture you can see white marks on two items, these aren't on the actual model

First wet coat done, going down to LHS and when i get back i'll snap some shops of the first wetcoat dry, later today i will put on the second wetocat, cover it over untile next weekend

Looks pretty good Lewis. Nice and shiny.

Right then, time for a small update Body parts are DONE apart from polishing - this and the clear coat will be done after all the aluminum is painted on the bottom and interior is done as it is one piece. You can see at the bottom i have started to prime some of the suspension parts ready to go on after aluminum

Straight into light, just to give you an idea of what the surface of the model is like

Body piece as it is, would've liked it sightly shinier

Suspension parts primer, still got brake disks to prime

The big part at the forefront is the seat
Thats it until the weekend, unless i can sneak a few sprays of semi-gloss black for the suspension inbetween homework, sport etc
AS you can see a lot of Aluminum....

Credit for this image

Looks pretty darn glossy to me! If you wanted to go for the mile deep finish then just add about 3 good coats of clear lacquer over that blue and wet sand and polish..but it looms good to me.
What color are you doing for the interior?

The interior colour is as follows for a blue: Aluminum floor engine bay underside etc, black seats and a Hull red+Black for the actual interior colour. All that will be done then the clear coats and polishing using the tamiya compounds

Rightyyy ho, Clear coat DONE, Polishing DONE, needs waxing, now i am just putting suspension pieces and interior, engine etc into the body looking good for a finish tomorrow, pics up later...

Done, will be displayed bonnet off next to it, all the ones on the base came out blurry....













Wheels were going to be chrome but it didnt work so i reverted to white

Excellent piece of work Lewis.
One of the turnsignals seems to be missing?

What colors did you use for the valvcover?

Yes the run signal was eaten my the carpet monster I think semi gloss black if we are talking about the same thing?

D... that carpet monster.

It's the metalic cover underneath the semi gloss black cap. Looks kind of anthracite colored.