So, What Have You Done Today?

[Willy iine]

Cynan - For the enamel that bleeded, you can try gently shearing it off using  a toothpick.  
 

Disclaimer:  But apparently my recommendations have varying results to members so please try in a hidden area first...!

[Cynan]

1 hour ago, Willy iine said:

Cynan - For the enamel that bleeded, you can try gently shearing it off using  a toothpick.  
 

Disclaimer:  But apparently my recommendations have varying results to members so please try in a hidden area first...!

I actually tried that. I should have waited longer because it smudged and left a right mess! Now it seems somewhat ingrained into the yellow. So I’m left with sanding and redoing it, pairing over it with yellow, or just having fun with it. I might pick up another shell and decals for the shelf and leave this as a runny shell. I quite like the idea of making the scratches into rust marks like I saw someone has done... but my skills are pretty bad with painting so we will see

[chuckjaywalk]

Went to the Carper races last night and it was great fun to watch. I am going to try my hand at racing for the first time next week.

[Willy iine]

2 hours ago, Cynan said:

I actually tried that. I should have waited longer because it smudged and left a right mess! Now it seems somewhat ingrained into the yellow. So I’m left with sanding and redoing it, pairing over it with yellow, or just having fun with it. I might pick up another shell and decals for the shelf and leave this as a runny shell. I quite like the idea of making the scratches into rust marks like I saw someone has done... but my skills are pretty bad with painting so we will see

Yeah, I didn't propose that a few days ago when I first saw your post because I guessed your paint had not fully dried yet..!  Once there is a surface scratch the uncured enamel will work into the plastic. 

Actually that is still spot repairable, but not sure if you're up for it.   I am assuming you painted directly on the plastic.  In this case I would sand off the blemish using #1500 sanding sponge with a delicate touch, then follow up with a dry soft paper towel or napkin and polish until it shines like the surrounding plastic.   I use Bounty brand paper towels in the USA as reference. 

That is actually how I repair surface scratches on the roll cage corners on my restored Willy's.  This bar use to have all sorts of deep scratches.

[Cynan]

In some places the undercoat of yellow has come off too so it’s probably gonna be a case of masking off the window rubber and respaying  I might have a go.. but first, restoring a driver head by painting the helmet in red, before redoing the face and then the black around the helmet... and also currently painting the body too in white...

 

[Willy iine]

Cynan - If that is enamel yellow you used under the black trim, then you're right, you will need to touch up the yellow.  Only time the shearing works well is enamel over plastic or fully cured lacquer.  

GL painting the driver figure!   

[Cynan]

I sprayed the lunchbox all over with TS-16 and then used X-18 on top.

Today also fitted the DF03s to my HS2 runner. Used the front pistons all round with the rear shocks and they fit perfectly. You can also see alu front knuckles.

Just waiting in a SuperStock motor and CVDs now and then part wise she’s complete.

[topforcein]

17 hours ago, Ferruz said:

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle, or a beaver's cousin for all that matters.

After a few weeks of pretty much constant spring weather, today we got this

i recon the dahm ground hog came out and saw a shadow this year and thought smeg that i'm of back in

[nel33]

got to check the paint samples in daylight today. PS metallic blue the area with translucent coverage has silver backing half and the other is white. gonna compare that t PS 30 brilliant blue today at LHS. its a very sneaky color with the white and silver backing changing darkness if you angle it the other way in comparison the physics of light are very confusing at times...

[Robert5000]

Been failing miserably all evening to mount the Jconcepts tribute wheels to the TXT2. No matter which of the adapters I’m using there’s not enough thread on the wheel axle to secure the wheel. So I’m obviously doing something horribly wrong here. 

[nel33]

Picked up my 4200mah NIMH Traxxas battery with battery I'd connector at LHS  just now, forgot to bring the blue test sample to compare it to ps30; how typical... I did notice it alot but got it for the tt02 body. The sileighty isn't going to have complicated paint, the worst might simply be painting the cab pillars black but the rest will be brilliant blue. 

[Bwaaatch]

Progress on King Melon... 

Got some great quality black vinyl from HobbyCraft in the UK. Lockdown has just ended here, so I went into one of their stores for the first time in ages and immediately noticed that their range of Cricut vinyls, machines and accessories had exploded. My needs were simple, but the massive range of (viewable in store for colour matching needs) vinyl was pretty epic. If you are decorating a shell and looking for the perfect thing, well worth a go. I don’t have a Cricut cutting machine, just cut by hand. But for anyone making this kind of thing on a scale between personal and production, I think a Cricut machine could be a useful tool.

 

[nel33]

If i remember correctly, one painter named Bob Ross said they are no mistakes when painting, only happy circumstances. The latter half I don't remember correctly but the sentiment was there. I wanted to try my ps30 brilliant blue so I took a scrap piece of lexan, washed and dried it. Took the blue paint can and did a light mist before checking the cap on the paint. I just put a light layer of metallic blue on the lexan. It dried within a few seconds so I either take another unpainted piece, clean/remove the ps16 or make an even fine metallic blue mist on it. I chose door 3 and door 1, the plan is to put ps30 on both pieces now and compare the results. Hopefully the ps16 layer adds a metallic flair to the ps30 brilliant blue. It might take a bit of practice if it works out well on full scale to achieve fine ps16 mist but it's worth the test paint pieces.

While I'm at it I'm just going to do test patches of the upcoming color I'm going to use on Manta and Sileighty.

Edit, it looks like ps30 has some metal flake and maybe the ps16 only serves to make it much darker than ps30 but I will see in the sunlight tomorow

[mongoose1983]

Dirty job gettin' done today. This is for another Tamiya fan here in my country. Caustic soda did the job, but not without some elbow grease. There were three nasty layers of paint. The obvious blue/white first, then some thick black, and then this rubbish red which was pretty hard to remove. Hopefully this will be completely stripped and painted next Sunday. Not sure we'll have sun enough to do that though.

You all stay safe and have a good Friday!

[Nwc100]

2 hours ago, nel33 said:

If i remember correctly, one painter named Bob Ross said they are no mistakes when painting, only happy circumstances. The latter half I don't remember correctly but the sentiment was there. I wanted to try my ps30 brilliant blue so I took a scrap piece of lexan, washed and dried it. Took the blue paint can and did a light mist before checking the cap on the paint. I just put a light layer of metallic blue on the lexan. It dried within a few seconds so I either take another unpainted piece, clean/remove the ps16 or make an even fine metallic blue mist on it. I chose door 3 and door 1, the plan is to put ps30 on both pieces now and compare the results. Hopefully the ps16 layer adds a metallic flair to the ps30 brilliant blue. It might take a bit of practice if it works out well on full scale to achieve fine ps16 mist but it's worth the test paint pieces.

While I'm at it I'm just going to do test patches of the upcoming color I'm going to use on Manta and Sileighty.

Edit, it looks like ps30 has some metal flake and maybe the ps16 only serves to make it much darker than ps30 but I will see in the sunlight tomorow

This one below is translucent blue, translucent silver, bright blue and now fully backed in white, it wasn't in this photo as I'd run after 30 seconds of spraying it.

Although not the easiest to use I can highly recommend the translucent paints, I really like the depth and colour changing ability they give, most of my issues have been caused by spraying in the cold but I'm way to impatient to do it any other way.

[BJoe76]

Got the Losi Night Crawler lower links installed on my Comp Crawler to replace the nearly unobtanium part that broke.

[berman]

Got a ph call from my LHS to say my M07 and Mk2 Escort are there waiting for me...

But I'm broke 😔

 😄

[nel33]

7 hours ago, Nwc100 said:

This one below is translucent blue, translucent silver, bright blue and now fully backed in white, it wasn't in this photo as I'd run after 30 seconds of spraying it.

Although not the easiest to use I can highly recommend the translucent paints, I really like the depth and colour changing ability they give, most of my issues have been caused by spraying in the cold but I'm way to impatient to do it any other way.

that a very nice blue color there, kinda wished if i didnt go metallic for the Manta then that would be the color. i have a tendency to paint the bodies with a certain theme as to dictate the colors. the Manta theme i have in mind needs the metallic flake  to complete the paint job. the ps30 test patch turned out nicely without needing a backing color it may not be as intricate in color change but im looking for a specific blue of the Sileighty which is a hue thats slightly darker.

[Badcrumble]

I have been charging batteries today as my son has asked to play with the cars tomorrow while my wife is at work .

[Ferruz]

After exactly one year since I've restored it, this morning I've installed a receiver in my RC10 and got it all ready to go. I'm planning on running it in anger on grass tomorrow afternoon. I've done a livingroom test run, and now I'm really excited and can't wait to run it!!

It's finally time for this fella to wake up and get some ACTION!!

I really liked having this car speckless on the shelf for me to admire for a while, but now the time has come for it to be enjoyed the way it was always meant to be 👍

 

[Robert5000]

23 hours ago, Robert5000 said:

Been failing miserably all evening to mount the Jconcepts tribute wheels to the TXT2. No matter which of the adapters I’m using there’s not enough thread on the wheel axle to secure the wheel. So I’m obviously doing something horribly wrong here. 

I'm not going to lie and say I suddenly figured out how to do this correctly, but I found out that two 1150 bearings inside each adapter solved this issue so now that's sorted. 

Now all I have to do is to understand why the wheels on both axles turn the same way and renders it useless. Once that is done I'm actually going to be able to drive this. 3 months in the making. Glacial pace to max!

[Maelstrom]

Today I finished my Loctite Zexel GT-R TA04! This one has been waiting for restoration for ages as I couldn't find a reasonably priced new body and decals. I  settled for a repro one - not completely Tamiya quality, but actually quite good.

I added an SLT servo and and a Hobbywing 1060 to the GT Tuned motor and took it for a spin round the current racing by post course. I'm still pretty  rubbish, but I did get two more laps in than with my TT-02.

[nel33]

bought some useful stuff for work and also some brake cleaner for my RC stuff, no point in buying a small can for +$10 when $7 gets you a bigger can of the same stuff essentially. i also got this feisty girl, calling her Minerva (RE Zero series) because she's crazy and unpredictable. atleast she was when i was driving back, i look at the bag holding her water and see she's not in the water, she jumped, got stuck on the wall of the bag above the water level.... i tip the water to her level and she keeps jumping, getting stuck 2 more times... hopefully she calms down now that she's in the proper tank. she was jumping alot when i was transporting her back home.

 

[Ferruz]

I was supposed to go skateboarding this afternoon, but got lazy and opted for RC instead 

I grabbed the Hornet and the bike (at least I biked!) and went looking for a faraway, unknown neighborhood in the hope of some new playground.

There were plenty of good spots! 

[Ferruz]

...oh and, just as usual, a Hornet in the face 🤠