Nitrocrushy

The black window lines are fantastic. Did you paint the lexan from the outside with a brush or from the inside and did you mask the borders or did it free hand without trembling ? It's perfect achievement!

Cool, first I thought whatever if it only gets postet some days later, but one is in the flow and so many days after the top of the emotions, it flattens so quick. So here we go again. Mystery will be the colour. Falken Design is not round enough and suits longer vehicles perhaps more, well my idea is fixed now and no, it will not be Type 25 british racing green, as that will be one when I gained lots more experience :-)

Sorry but when I really have to wait more than 5 days that the admin publishes my updates, I do not see any senses in continuing posting my projects. Then I pause until december if that is what the hierarchy wants. Very sad situation because of people who are not even members paying their cotisation here. Very unfair dear admins.

RC is a sport. All sport needs training. By training one gets better and better. That's the definition of a sport. Even people not even moving more than their thumbs in e-sports do sports. So whose sport is more exhausting and sweating? Ours or sitting in front of a big screen ?

My 22 years old colors seem to be still liquid and I cleaned my Airbrush. Going to have a look at my compressor if the air tank is rusted. Bought some articles (-200 error, unable to upload this picture) but they had not even a black paint marker for polycarbonate. My black Tamiya marker got empty after the front 2 parts and in the back I had to paint the 3 spots with a 22 year old rest of Tamiya PS black which sprayed perfectly. Very glad I found a big masking roll so I can try to do the Falken Racing design. Need some transparent Tamiya PS, some PS 30, some turquoise or PS 54 decanting for airbrush mixing with some white. Have a new Proline candy electric green 6329-02 here. If I find some white somewhere, perhaps I can mix this turquoise and if my compressor is not wrecked, perhaps I can even airbrush this week-end without buying any color at all. Crossing thumbs.

Hello. Thanks for this useful information. Do you remember the turquoise you used for the back of the truck body. I'm rushing now to a art shop but it has no Tamiya colors.

Hello. I am sorry but opinions differ so much that I thought for 20 years that I should have never used Createx Auto Air colors because they were never meant for airbrush or polycarbonate and yesterday I read that they are for lexan and airbrush, so in Reddit I read so many negative aspects of Createx and except 1 presenter, the Youtube advertisements from Createx did not convince me at all. I'm sorry but I cannot give a judgment based on rumours or just my experiences 24 years ago.

Thanks a lot. Backing with black helps the turquoise darken it what is good. The blue could also be backed in black to darken it a little bit. here are other colors I found: Absima Blue-Green and RAL 170 70 40 Expressionism green (acrylic, satin (30% gloss)) and Mission models paint. I now have definately enough information to try to find any of yours too. Thanks a lot.

Hello. So my 1st project after 20 years needs some color. I suppose I just want Tamiya PS cans and all my 25 paints I found will be thrown away, all Createx Air colors...adios, in the bin, just problems. Need Falken Racing colors. Am going to buy as soon as possible as my project need to procede. Falken turquoise green and the blue. Do they exist in PS for polycarbonate Lexan. Before restoring my airbrush compressor and learning Airbrush I want my 1:10 touring car in Falken Racing Design. Thankls for the exact can numbers to buy in the shop on Monday.I'll drive 200 miles to get these cans :-)

Update fender got fixed with 2 pieces of a plastic bottle. 1 piece has the conturs of the crack, a second piece borders the edge as there were 2 mm missing, so I'm glad with the result :-) The masking can begin.

UV Glue Pen, some days ago I saw a video of this glue, never heard of that before and there are some videos on youtube where they use a syringe to apply a special glue which hardens immediately. I hope I get any here around. I only have UHU Plast special here. Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot, Dot 3 or Dot 4 for the Break Fluid ? Yes it took me around 3 hours now but I fight to not lose this body and save it. It won't run, so it should just get nicely coloured to have a decent 2nd life. I thought about Falken Racing blue green, turquoise or a nice dark blue. Perhaps my 20 year old Airbrush colors could still work, so I'll take rests. To continue. Many thanks for both of your support, very helpful.

Hello. Project 1: * HPI Lotus Elise 200 mm: "From blue to ..." * As I miss my Elise, and before I try to model a decent one in 1:10, Type 25 from 2002 (mine was brg too but without the 2 yellow stripes). I won this one with a Yokomo MR-4 K3 chassis for cheap and today I discovered more awful things the owner did, not only the wrong blue colour. Here is what it looked like: So the paint had to go using Tamiya Paint Remover. I took care that I wiped away the agent fast that it would not attack the lexan, but I suppose I should have used dish sope, so here is the result after the Tamiya liquid was 2 hours on some parts without washing it with dishsoap. 3 problems appeared: 1) front window down line over the hood side has cracked. 2. rear side window down in a perfect line has cracked 3. you see that the fender has missing lexan pieces. The 1st owner applied black paint or Textmarker from the outside e.g. the 2 parts of the black hood, the black on the spoiler, on the sides, I think it was water resistent black textmarker or liquid paint from a pen. Sunday evening I was really disappointed because of the fender, yesterday I paused and today I gave it another go and was happy that the body did not fall into 1000 pieces while handling :-) Some blue spots on the outside can be seen, I'll wipe these away with Tamiya polycarbonate cleaner when I'm finished. My 1st idea: As Lotus Elise are cars which are diffiult to drive in the rain as rear drive and motor position, there are lots of accidents happening, so I could leave it with the crach or even worden it. My 2nd idea: elarge the breaking to a round form and form a bottle of water by heat that it fits. Then I need some glue lexan to plastic and then I would paint it. 3rd idea: Just taping some kind of material on it from the outside, or some layers of transparent Scotch or paper and painting it from the outside and as it will only be a shelf queen, turning the car that one does not see this fender. Then I will mask the windows and after the paint job (from inside), I would glue the 2 windows and then strengten the whole inside of the body with small stripes of fiberglass tape and a little shoe goo. My question: Should I glue the lexan windows before applying the paint? Which glue is best as I won't see any coloration or thick coat when applying it after the spraying. As there are some blue spots where I could not get rid of the colour, I ask myself which new color I should give this 1st try: silver, dark blue, black, light baby blue --> and better not: white, orange, yellow, lime green, brg green as this will be another project. For this baby blue: I'm not really a fan of it but time will tell. So what do you think how and when to glue the windows, how to fix the fender and what colour ? Your help is very appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Hello. I would be interested about Scandinavia and Hudy Land and Pologna, RC beginning in Russia of course and other countries where RC played some minor role in development or just to get some information about the early beginnings in Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, Hawai, Spain, Italy (I know a little bit) but my hero Teemu Leino from Finland ... A small resumee is sufficient :-) I hope this thread will have some drive comin' THx

Thanks I'll try but there are pages in the net where it is the same and the same second I switch to another page where the writing is darker, less fine and perfectly readable and enjoyable. There are many pages where the writing is light grey, so it is just the origin of the page maker, webmaster, webbuilder. Thx for the advice.