Global Scale Modeller

This is my entry

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Ooooooo I like this one's decal scheme the best so far

Cheers scott i agree

So to start with i'm going to add the rear wing/engine cover then get this primed in the new Ultimate glossy black primer

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Now that the body has been primed there are a couple of visible seams on the top of each front wing these will be sanded when the primer is dry and then reprimed

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The rear suspension is built along with the mufflers and dry fitted these will then be primed

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The rear suspension is painted up with AK Xtreme metal polished aluminium and tamiya x-1 and xf-1
the mufflers are painted with xf-1 black, xf-56 metallic grey and mix of x-12 gold leaf:1 mr hobby h-17 cocoa brown:1 and xf-16 flat aluminium:1.
The chassis and the bottom of the engine are primed and painted along with the springs, wheel hubs and other parts.

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With the seams taken care of on the front wings and reprimed this was then painted with zero paints Lotus F1 Black and after this is dry it will be given a clear gloss coat ready for applying the decals

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The brake discs the tiny holes were drilled out before priming in the glossy black primer and painted with AK Xtreme metal Chrome and tamiya x-7 red

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The front suspension and a plate for the underside of the chassis

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The interior parts primed, painted and decaled

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Then the roll cage built up

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All these parts fitted except for the dash which is fixed to the roll cage which needs to be painted first

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That is all for now

Hi gaz looking good what red did you use it seems to have problems with red

Hi Paul thanks i used tamiya X-7 Red applied 2 coats with a brush over Ultimate glossy black primer

gaz I will be trying that

WOW
Showing your skills for sure
I love the shiny drilled out brake disks...and everything else

Cheers Scott

Great pics. I've wanted to build this kit since I saw it. I shall be following this thread closely! Ah, Which size drill did you use for doing the brake discs?

Very Cool. Nice progress

Matthaus wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:31 pm Great pics. I've wanted to build this kit since I saw it. I shall be following this thread closely! Ah, Which size drill did you use for doing the brake discs?

Cheers mate i used a 0.4mm drill bit

kiwigav wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2017 5:52 am Very Cool. Nice progress

Cheers mate

All the remaining parts have been primed in Ultimate glossy primer and painted accordinly

The wheel centres were primed in the glossy black primer with a brush and when dry painted up with Tamiya X-31 Titan gold and then Titan silver for the wheel nuts

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The rollcage and the door panels have been painted up and the dash fixed to the cage

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and then fitted to the chassis

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While this was drying i painted the indicators and brake light with clear orange and clear red

The splitter was then added and the decals applied to the body
most of them went on ok but a few did rip

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When the decals were all dry i clear coated it again with a 50-50 mix of X-22 and Mr hobby leveling thinner

While this dried the seams on the tyres were sanded

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The windows are now added along with the decals wheels door mirrors and handles and the lights

So i think now i wilol call this finished

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Thanks for taking a look and for all your comments

I will post the finished pics in the reveal section

Looking really sharp
You are a master at making each sub assembly look like a masterpiece so that the whole assembly comes out spectacular
Need to work on that myself

Thanks mate I guess i need not to be hard on myself