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TheMidnight Pumpkin

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  1. 9 hours ago, Biz73 said:

    They changed my battery...literally:D I have an implant that detects seizures and sends electrical pulses to try to stop them. It looks worse than it really is, but I'm not allowed to do much until it fully heals. I just want to go drive my cars!

    You should have said you bought a Clod Buster and didn't tell the wife!  -lol  But seriously, glad you are ok. We need all the Tamiya guys around here we can get.

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  2. I gave a friend a Jimny Wheelie for Christmas. He in turn gave me a Unimog Wheelie in red. While I'm completely good with the gift. I do have an odd thing that I noticed about the kit. I've seen the various prepainted Unimog wheelie kits in Yellow, Orange, Red, Blue, and Green. The boxes matched the body color in the one's that I saw. However mine does not. I don't care, but I just thought it was weird. See the pictures below... the box is orange. But it has a little decal saying that the kit inside is painted red. Either way, its a cool gift!

     

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  3. I've been going slow with my Jimny due to other obligations. But I finally got the chassis drive able. Next I'll be starting on the body after I slip some washers behind the rear wheels to remove the extra slop in the half shafts. I bought cans of PS-1 white, PS-5 black, and PS-8 light green for the body colors.

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  4. So this post won't be completely accurate since "I didn't do this today". But a few years ago I gave my friend a Tamiya buggy that I found in a pawn shop. I have no idea what model it was, but it was dirt cheap and it had everything ready to run. He has since beat the heck out of it from use, and continues to drive it a lot, even though its seen better days. I don't know what model it is, if anyone can identify it, I would like to know. But I did finally get a picture of it yesterday for identification reasons:

     

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  5. Since this topic is about painting, the nice thing about the Jimny body is that its setup for 2 tone painting. Its got very defined sections in very straight lines for easier taping to get your colored sections just right. I think the cab section would only look right in a 2 tone if you put mirrors on it to hide the step down line by the window corner. Then the main body line (below that) is the best 2 tone separation line. The only concern there would be if you added any realism details or tools to the bed area. Then lastly you have the side body lines that align to the bumpers. I'll draw some lines on a picture showing what I'm talking about.

    I think a simple top half white, with bottom color... maybe light green, 2 tone would be best for this truck. Then maybe black bumpers, black bed, and roll bars. Lastly maybe some tire changing tools or a gas can added to the bed. The stick on spare tire is kind of silly when you think about the size difference. So a gas can would be a better choice for a tiny bit of realism.

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  6. Please post pictures of your Suzuki Jimny. I'm seeking inspiration for the color scheme. I did a search on here and most of the old topics are broken from the "bucket" picture drama.

    There are a couple interesting ones on google, the orange one with tracks is pretty cool. It seems most people stick to pretty simple single color paint jobs.

     

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  7. A while back I mentioned that I had made some large light up drone track gates for a flying event. Here's a couple video's from that event. I'll share more later as I have not yet edited them.

     

     

     

     

     

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