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Rough cut the aperture in the rear of the Bowler where the spare wheels will go

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Sorta finished this up today. Waiting on some rear end parts to make it complete. Its another ORV but with a CC01 Bronco body and some Traxxas wheels and tires. It already feels like a rollover king but it'll add to the fun of driving it and trying NOT to rollover so much.

 

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Decided the bonnet could be sprayed in my basement ghetto paint box so matted down the kidneys.  The spraying is complete, will clean up the window frames and polish tomorrow.  

The holes on the roof will be covered by the open sunroof so no issue.

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On 10/23/2021 at 4:26 AM, Re-Bugged said:

Finished my Giulia, and took some photos……lots of photos, here’s a few…

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Wow, my friend. Your Alfa Giulia is... Bellissima! It's very similar to one I used to see driving around the neighborhood as a kid, which makes me like it even more. Once again an amazing result that matches the high standard of your recent productions. I applaude your efforts! 👍🤩

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Carlos Sainz behind the wheel and Luis Moya as co-pilot of the Toyota Celica.

Spray painted TS13 over the weekend and finished the last touch, Vallejo matt varnish over the bodies and faces yesterday night.

Mounting on the Celica body will be next :D

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Had a lil' family gathering today, and sat down with the kids to try and fix up their Formula 1 -I won't lie, uncle Ferruz had being eyeing it for a while :rolleyes:-  

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This below was a crucial point, something like "uncle's gotta go eat with the grownups, don't knock around all the screws!"

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Incredibly, they didn't, so I was able to actually put it back together. Throttle fixed

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It was fun and all but, toy grade or not... because of this thing now I want an F1 chassis 😬😬😬😬 must resist...🤧

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Thank you @Ferruz 👍🏻
That must have been a fantastic childhood hood with these things buzzing past your front door 😎

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12 hours ago, Willy iine said:

Battleship dull red TS33 looks good on this car.  Will do the roof next.. 

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OK, so I'm either missing the colour blind joke/reference here ... 

OR I'm colour blind ... 

BUT ...

Pretty sure that is blue not red hahaha

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2 hours ago, OoALEJOoO said:

Carlos Sainz behind the wheel and Luis Moya as co-pilot of the Toyota Celica.

Spray painted TS13 over the weekend and finished the last touch, Vallejo matt varnish over the bodies and faces yesterday night.

Mounting on the Celica body will be next :D

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Seeing this, is why I don't bother with figures :o I know my limitations, and they are not even close to a tenth of this, haha

Having said that, I did purchase the Tamiya touring cockpit for my in-progress Sierra body to mimic a Group A touring car from here in AU :unsure:

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2 hours ago, Ryz82 said:

 

OK, so I'm either missing the colour blind joke/reference here ... 

OR I'm colour blind ... 

BUT ...

Pretty sure that is blue not red hahaha

Hahaha  :lol:  Yeah, I was going to paint the sides and roof dull red, but decided at the very last second (I even had the TS33 in my paint tray locked and loaded) that I want this last comical SS to be the polar opposite of the other 2 I already made.  Knowing gloss is difficult to paint cleanly with a rattle can, prepping the joints takes even more detail as gloss does not hide imperfections unless in some level of orange peel, etc, it turned into a self-challenge to gauge where I am with my skills and to see how I can improve moving forward. 

One thing I hate is my deteriorating eye sight due to age.  I just cannot see very well up close these days even with reading glasses; it's just not the same as it once was.

 

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When you built a chassis variant from the one you just built the day before, you notice the difference between the builds while going step by step...

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But then at some point in the build you notice that a lot of the step variances directly comes from a page sequence inverted in the print of the instruction manual you got :-D

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Found my parts tray (exactly where I left it in the wrong place) so decided I should start something I've had since the day it was released, more than 10 1/2 years after I purchased it!

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5 hours ago, Ryz82 said:

Seeing this, is why I don't bother with figures :o I know my limitations, and they are not even close to a tenth of this, haha

Having said that, I did purchase the Tamiya touring cockpit for my in-progress Sierra body to mimic a Group A touring car from here in AU :unsure:

It appears more difficult to do than what it actually is :). I only used 4 acrylic colors to paint the drivers:

  • Flesh
  • Red
  • White
  • Dark brown

Plus 3 other colors for the misc. parts:

  • Black (belts)
  • Silver (buckles)
  • Yellow (steering wheel center)

You only need to create a bit of shadowing and highlights and then your eyes/brain will fill in the rest.

Racing Coveralls:

  1. Painted the whole thing red as the base color
  2. Mixed red + dark brown 2:1. Painted the recesses. It does not matter if the color transitions look too obvious. By the time the figure is done it will be almost unnoticeable.
  3. Mixed red + flesh 2:1. Painted crests.
  4. Mixed red + flesh + white 2:1:1. Painted the very tip of each crest.
  5. White lines are just plain white painted after all the red highlight was done.
  6. White areas are just the actual plastic color, with recesses painted grey (mixed white + black 3:1).

Faces:

  1. Painted the skin with flesh color
  2. Painted eyes white
  3. Mix skin + red + dark brown 5:1:1, paint recesses. If you have clear acrylic medium, add 1 part of this as well, which will help a bit with blending.
  4. Mix skin + white 2:1, paint crests (e.g. nose tip, nostrils, cheeks, etc)
  5. Eyes: fine-line the top eyelid edge only, if you also fine-line the bottom it would look like the eyes have make-up. Iris: imagine the whole circle does not fit the white area, thus you only paint an incomplete circle. If you paint the complete circle the eyes look startled. Finish by adding a white dot (reflection).

Other parts:

  1. Similar to the uniform. Pick a color as base.
  2. Darker tone for recesses.
  3. Lighter tone for crests.
  4. Further lighter tone for crest tips.
  5. Belts and gloves where done this way, using gray tones.

The overall cockpit was sprayed with TS14 Black beforehand, drivers masked. Do not use PS paints, they will peel easily. After you paint the drivers, seal with TS13 clear. To avoid glossy finish on the coveralls and faces, brush matt varnish.

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28 minutes ago, OoALEJOoO said:

It appears more difficult to do than what it actually is :). I only used 4 acrylic colors to paint the drivers:

  • Flesh
  • Red
  • White
  • Dark brown

Plus 3 other colors for the misc. parts:

  • Black (belts)
  • Silver (buckles)
  • Yellow (steering wheel center)

You only need to create a bit of shadowing and highlights and then your eyes/brain will fill in the rest.

Racing Coveralls:

  1. Painted the whole thing red as the base color
  2. Mixed red + dark brown 2:1. Painted the recesses. It does not matter if the color transitions look too obvious. By the time the figure is done it will be almost unnoticeable.
  3. Mixed red + flesh 2:1. Painted crests.
  4. Mixed red + flesh + white 2:1:1. Painted the very tip of each crest.
  5. White lines are just plain white painted after all the red highlight was done.
  6. White areas are just the actual plastic color, with recesses painted grey (mixed white + black 3:1).

Faces:

  1. Painted the skin with flesh color
  2. Painted eyes white
  3. Mix skin + red + dark brown 5:1:1, paint recesses. If you have clear acrylic medium, add 1 part of this as well, which will help a bit with blending.
  4. Mix skin + white 2:1, paint crests (e.g. nose tip, nostrils, cheeks, etc)
  5. Eyes: fine-line the top eyelid edge only, if you also fine-line the bottom it would look like the eyes have make-up. Iris: imagine the whole circle does not fit the white area, thus you only paint an incomplete circle. If you paint the complete circle the eyes look startled. Finish by adding a white dot (reflection).

Other parts:

  1. Similar to the uniform. Pick a color as base.
  2. Darker tone for recesses.
  3. Lighter tone for crests.
  4. Further lighter tone for crest tips.
  5. Belts and gloves where done this way, using gray tones.

The overall cockpit was sprayed with TS14 Black beforehand, drivers masked. Do not use PS paints, they will peel easily. After you paint the drivers, seal with TS13 clear. To avoid glossy finish on the coveralls and faces, brush matt varnish.

In the past I've tended to just go with a basic wash to get the shadow/recesses using either black or brown heavily diluted with water and then wipe off with a cloth/cue-tip.

Tried dry brushing for highlights once, it didn't work out, but it could've been that I had also inadvertently picked up enamels not acrylics for some of my colors, and by time i realised, i couldn't be bothered going back to LHS to switch.

Fingers crossed, this time, now its a a full cockpit and not just a head or torso I'll get better results, as I do want this final body and livery to look good even though it will be a runner/basher.

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12 hours ago, Willy iine said:

Good job on the decals.  I can tell you put in a lot of effort to get the decals to wrap around nicely onto the body.  

Thank you! It did take a while and it certainly felt like doing a full wrap on a car, the decals are so huge lol.

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3 hours ago, Ryz82 said:

In the past I've tended to just go with a basic wash to get the shadow/recesses using either black or brown heavily diluted with water and then wipe off with a cloth/cue-tip.

Tried dry brushing for highlights once, it didn't work out, but it could've been that I had also inadvertently picked up enamels not acrylics for some of my colors, and by time i realised, i couldn't be bothered going back to LHS to switch.

Fingers crossed, this time, now its a a full cockpit and not just a head or torso I'll get better results, as I do want this final body and livery to look good even though it will be a runner/basher.

Washing with water indeed requires wiping-off, otherwise it will look "dirty" (in a way, water is being "dirtied" with paint!). For washes, clear acrylic glaze medium works much much better than water, resulting in very even transitions between colors just by simple application.

Dry-brushing is always an option, acrylics work much better as you say. I tend to only use dry-brushing on acutely marked surfaces (like hair or fur), otherwise the surface would develop little paint-bumps that rob some of the cleanliness of the job.

The trick is always experiment, experiment and experiment ;)

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Done a little on the polar tour bus!!!BF6D66E1-86D2-4D31-AFA3-E6528203818F.jpeg.9b73deeb819ea3df97ec9d5fd93687cf.jpeg

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I have some polar bear stickers on order but I think they are coming from the North Pole!!!! They are based on drawings by native inhabitants of the Arctic region. The letters are a real labour of love. The other side is still undone!!!

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22 hours ago, Willy iine said:

What I am working on today..  continuing on with my snail like incremental updates..

So last night I ended up cleaning up the parting line even further as it was not clean enough for me and fired away at the last of my off-white paint past 10pm in my mud room ghetto portable paint booth.  I am completely out of that paint, so not good..

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And this morning masked away and hit the fender flares with some color..

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Will let it dry for 6hours and I will mask the roof..  in the mean time, I am going to paint Billy's suit.  More updates to follow.

Update.. After one hour of drying, I touched up on a few blemishes on the fender flares and hit it again with more paint.. so another 6 hour wait time.   This is why progress is so slow. 

Battleship dull red TS33 looks good on this car.  Will do the roof next.. 

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Update... now that paint has sort of set, I started masking the roof.  I still need to give it another 4 hours before I can safely wrap the fenders with paper. 

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“Hi Daddy, I painted your beetle while you were bye bye..“  :blink:  holy moly!

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 :lol: JK, just making sure paint gets into the nooks when I spray the roof battleship red.  

Update...

Billy is ready to go.. will wrap up the body for the roof painting in the next 30min..

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Last update for today..

Got the battleship red painted on the roof.  Due to the mask on the windshield  and sunroof it looks weird, but it should be okay.   Tomorrow will paint the kidneys.

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Car’s sweet but that’s a Tidy job on Billy too bud

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8 minutes ago, Mad Zero said:

Car’s sweet but that’s a Tidy job on Billy too bud

Sorry but am I going blinder than I thought!! Where’s the battleship red???

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40 minutes ago, Mad Zero said:

Car’s sweet but that’s a Tidy job on Billy too bud

Thanks! :D

I will be using a few decals from the sheet and saw that there were a couple of them in a red/orange color so decided to mix a similar color for Billy's suit.  Hopefully the color pops well when I get him mounted onto his little club racer.  

Today before work and during my break time I'm going to build one of the GF01 chassis and mounting hardware for the body and Billy.  I decided to allow the body to dry a few more days before applying diminishing abrasives to prevent any blemishes.  

@Busdriver Yeah, I did a 180.. I tend to copy paste often so decided to try something different this time using everything I know.. which doesn't translate to much.. :ph34r:

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Been working on the ABS body for the Bowler. I wanted real tyres rather than a sticker so I cut up a CC01 hockey puck and then built a carrier that is inset into the back panel. Not fixed in properly but it’s getting there. 8745018F-1944-4CE3-9CE3-F163D564114E.jpeg.9767d27afea959ae022d6e1b248f15fd.jpeg

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Today i put on better decals on my clod tires.

I hope they will stick. The clod tires are very stickerunfriendly 

 

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Looks Amazing:wub:, i just ordered Firestorm from Jconsept. But Firestone is the real manufactorer did not know you could get ones branded with that for RC

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