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Beautiful gloss finish and colour on that paint job Patrick! Can you please fill us in on the paint type and process you use?

I hope you've got your head around where all of those tubes go, I've got a twitching eye just trying to figure it out

Cheers, D

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To be honest the only thing painted so far is the airbox. The rest is raw plastic.

But here’s my system... I wash ALL my kits in warm water. Then, after filling and sanding down to 2000 grit, I use Tamiya primer. A couple of mist coats to find the flaws and a quick swipe where needed with sand paper. I also try to wear gloves when handling the “to be painted” piece.

I then spray down my booth with water, use a make up brush to dust the surface and canned air as well. I am pretty big on rattle cans, Tamiya to be precise. I warm up a pot of water in an old coffee maker and warm the rattle can.

I use a bunch of different turntables to do a mist coat from about 9 inches... wait 20 minutes... 2nd mist coat... 20 minutes... then a wet coat from same distance with a slower pass. Wait a couple of hours and inspect. I will resend starting at 150 all the way to 2000. Then repeat if necessary.

It’s my most OCD step after being such a crappy painter for so long.

I’m using Tamiya Pure White and Tamiya Italian Red (eventually). Sorry to have fooled you! That extruded red is a little light for Ferrari IMHO.

Oh yeah, I do the underside in primer for no light bleed...

Hope this isn’t too tedious. I do own an airbrush but it’s kind of a pain with thinner, leveler, flat/matte, clean up etc. I find rattle cans much easier even though more expensive.

damian- looking forward to your final paint job. can i ask why you chose to mask the bumpers and trim? are you not using bare metal foil?

damian yes i agree with the bumpers. i am sure someone somewhere has tried it but it would be difficult. i didn't realize the bumpers were molded on the car. i was mainly thinking of the trim for the BMF. i actually think the silver painted bumpers would look better.

joe

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damian yes i agree with the bumpers. i am sure someone somewhere has tried it but it would be difficult. i didn't realize the bumpers were molded on the car. i was mainly thinking of the trim for the BMF. i actually think the silver painted bumpers would look better.

joe

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I will give it a go one day for sure, probably after a few glasses of "liquid courage"

You can see in this photo that the headlights, turn signals and grille are all decals on the 1:1, and there is no chrome trim on the rest of the body (side trims or window frames for instance).



The biggest headache I can see coming up for me is the paint on the scoop. The kit provides a decal for the flat area on the bonnet around the base of the scoop but the scoop itself is left white, but as you can see in the image, as well as on the box art below, it is painted to match the centre-line stripes which are orange and a purple-blue which might be hard to match.



I need to decide whether to try to colour-match, which would be extremely obvious if I don't get it spot on, or take the artistic licence and leave the scoop white as the kit suggests in the image below.



Cheers, D

One of the sites I use for car photos is the ultimatecarpage.com. They have some pretty good photos of a lot of cars, usually my go to first.

bomber14,I love the gold valve covers. I am a big fan of NASCAR in the sixties.

Joe, neat masking job there, looking forward to the reveal on the two-tone paint job!

David (Dixon66) is adding his 2006 Mustang GT - SCCA Conversion to the group build here while he waits for paint for his Zakspeed Capri. Please check out the dedicated build log to see the neat modification work going on there.

Cheers, D

Decals D.Decals.

Robert,
Your masking looks really quite consistent, so it should be fine.

One thing I always do to help with leaks under the masking tape is a super lite tack coat that will really help to seal the tape edges. Then just build up your coats with lite even coats. Rarely do I get any bleed through.

Joel

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Decals D.Decals.

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Sorry mate, my tired old brain-box is struggling to keep up with the pace of progress in this place!

Cheers, D

We have an expression here "just bustin' your chops". Picking on you for the sake of picking on you.

Gabriel,
Agreed on the type of tape used. I only mask with Tamiya tape, but use other craft type types to fill in masking areas that are low tack. It's the low tack that's the problem. I've always found that store bought masking tape has a tendency to pull up paint. But I've never had an issue with the Tamiya type of tapes.

That is with the exception of their vinyl tapes which have little to almost no sticking power.

I also burnish the tape edges down with a Q tip or better yet with a metal burnisher I got from a hobby site years ago. It's got a flat type of rounded tip so I can't damage the paint nor tear the tape.

Joel

i have heard also of using a clear coat along the tape edge before the color coat. it is supposed seals the tape edge. i don't know how well it works though.