The exterior with the carbon fibre is a great choice. I certainly have some more practice to go to get a base finish like that.

cheers
Michael

Sign me up! Have 3 917's, a 934 and Carrera RSR in my backlog.

Michael, Congratulations for crossing the line in pole position!

I was going to congratulate you on the glossy finish but then I read you are unhappy with it! I understand some race cars appear roughed up on the pit line and especially after the race, but when "salooned" they are as glossy as a collector car!

However, for a "first" it's an amazing achievement - it took me years to reach to a similar performance! Now you need to do a fire engine or a Rolls just for the sake of the gloss !

Cheers!
Gabriel

Michael,
What an absolutely amazing build. One would never have guessed that this is your 1st car build in 40 years. From what I can see, the finish is simply world class.

The 2K finish system is truly amazing, but I'm still a lacquer kind of guy, and the gloss shine is a good notch plus down on the scale.

I'm still struggling with what a wet coat should and shouldn't be for my clear coats. For the color coats using Gravity paints, which are Matt, It's all about smoothness, which is why I use 4-6,000 grit between the color coat and the gloss coat. Gloss coats get the 3,000 grit, then the full Monty polishing and wax system by Gravity.

As far as an over shine for race cars. I guess that all depends on what you prefer. I've seen race cars spit shinned as display pieces, and I've seen them roll of the trailer looking like showroom perfection, which never lasts very long at the track. You'll never see any Penske car roll into the pits from the trailer and not look absolutely perfect. Standards to vary.

If you're modeling a race ending car, most car as weathered and beat to some degree.

Joel

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Michael,
What an absolutely amazing build. One would never have guessed that this is your 1st car build in 40 years. From what I can see, the finish is simply world class.

The 2K finish system is truly amazing, but I'm still a lacquer kind of guy, and the gloss shine is a good notch plus down on the scale.

I'm still struggling with what a wet coat should and shouldn't be for my clear coats. For the color coats using Gravity paints, which are Matt, It's all about smoothness, which is why I use 4-6,000 grit between the color coat and the gloss coat. Gloss coats get the 3,000 grit, then the full Monty polishing and wax system by Gravity.

As far as an over shine for race cars. I guess that all depends on what you prefer. I've seen race cars spit shinned as display pieces, and I've seen them roll of the trailer looking like showroom perfection, which never lasts very long at the track. You'll never see any Penske car roll into the pits from the trailer and not look absolutely perfect. Standards to vary.

If you're modeling a race ending car, most car as weathered and beat to some degree.

Joel

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Cheers Joel,
As I said to Gabriel, it was the builds you guys have done, especially the Lotus and Ferrari, that made doing this as a first timer a lot, lot easier. The preparation that you outlined I followed as necessary instructions and it does clearly make a difference to the finish for cars. I will see if I can go one step better with the Ferrari GT250 which a much smoother bodyshell i.e. no awkward moulded on bumpers.

You should give the Gravity 2K a go, my airbrush was still working afterwards

thanks

Michael

Gabriel,
Simply outstanding. You should send the pictures of the final build to VW. Who knows, they just might buy the rights from you to produce your version. It surely would turn heads.

Joel

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Gabriel,
Simply outstanding. You should send the pictures of the final build to VW. Who knows, they just might buy the rights from you to produce your version. It surely would turn heads.

Joel

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Thank you for the high prize! That will be awesome, Joel! The only thing is VW New Beetle went out of production this year, and there is no sign of continuation of the concept, at least for the time being. Most probably the next small compact volume from VW will be an alternative fuel one (?).

Gabriel

Gabriel,
Link fixed.
Your Bug looks simply amazing.
Joel

We are still looking for ideas for a ribbon, any and all suggestions gratefully accepted. I'm happy to do some fiddling with the format, just throw out some concepts guys!

Happy New Year, here's to plenty more of the same styrene goodness for 2019!