My Take on the Grasshopper 2

[Pintopower 1456]

45 minutes ago, Grastens said:

Remember that you will also not see the potentially-excellent outcome until after you have shot the final gloss white coat! I am still looking forward to seeing how it will turn out, and am hoping it is to your liking in the end.

I hope so also. Thank you for the encouragement. 

[richb77 78]

1 hour ago, Grastens said:

Remember that you will also not see the potentially-excellent outcome until after you have shot the final gloss white coat! I am still looking forward to seeing how it will turn out, and am hoping it is to your liking in the end.

I agree completely with Grastens. 

Many a time i have painted away, layer after layer for it to turn out shocking! Nothing like my preliminary sketches or what i had in my head. But other times i have been unsure and turned out some of my favourites. You never know until the masking tape is all removed.

Keep plugging away chap. Its nothing some wet N dry cant fix if you hate it at the end!

[Pintopower 1456]

Today I laid down the Final coat of paint.

Minutes later this happened:

I must say that I'm very happy you guys mentioned putting the white gap between the red and the greens. I think that decision really helped the overall scheme. I really like it but I'm not in love. Trying to keep it more in line with the original grasshopper II limited some of the creativity but it really never had a wild paint scheme so I think this fits in. Next steps are of course painting roll bar lags, color sanding, applying decals, and then clear coating everything. Even though this is a super G grasshopper, I will be installing super hornet Black shock bodies as well as the stock wheel and tire combination for this car. I feel that the yellow and the neon yellow adds for too many colors to this cars paint scheme. 

[kontemax 1725]

Whoaa!!!

Alitalia paint scheme, like the Lancia Stratos!

I believed that the body was full green and red.

 

Max

[richb77 78]

I really like that. It's awesome. Such a massive improvement over the stock colours and makes me now like the GH2!! Top job IMHO.

[Roasty 16]

Yeah that Lola nice, with white wheels it would be better

[94eg! 834]

Body looks amazing. I highly recommend you do something with the wheels and shocks too now.  Possibly white and/or black. The yellows are throwing it off IMHO.

[Pintopower 1456]

On 8/7/2016 at 8:48 PM, kontemax said:

Whoaa!!!

Alitalia paint scheme, like the Lancia Stratos!

I believed that the body was full green and red.

 

Max

Great, now you spoiled my ORV Lancia build. Lol

20 hours ago, richb77 said:

I really like that. It's awesome. Such a massive improvement over the stock colours and makes me now like the GH2!! Top job IMHO.

Thank you!

19 hours ago, Roasty said:

Yeah that Lola nice, with white wheels it would be better

Yes it will. Mongoose is sending me some. 

10 hours ago, 94eg! said:

Body looks amazing. I highly recommend you do something with the wheels and shocks too now.  Possibly white and/or black. The yellows are throwing it off IMHO.

Yup, on it! 

[kontemax 1725]

7 hours ago, Pintopower said:

Great, now you spoiled my ORV Lancia build. Lol

Sorry...

 

Max

[kontemax 1725]

7 hours ago, Pintopower said:

Great, now you spoiled my ORV Lancia build. Lol

Sorry...

 

Max

[Grastens 2795]

That looks stunning! I really like the way this turned out - and what is this I hear about a Lancia build?

Now I am really excited to see the car finished, given how good the shell looks. Do you think a set of dark-green wheels will work?

[mongoose1983 3335]

It doesn't surprise me you Italians like that color combination!

Nice Buggy!

By the way, your box will be on its way to you tomorrow

Have a good one!

[NWarty 1325]

Pinto,

Love the color scheme! Now...send those wheels and tires my way!  

[Pintopower 1456]

I got my decals in! If you want to know where message me. I emailed them and they customized the colors for me. I am not going to be using the stripes but just wanted to see another color. I had lots of custom ones made and will be doing my own for my Hornet 2 and Hornet 3. I am going to test them out (the stripes anyway) on an old GH2 shell to see how they feel and work. Excited!

[JoFan 118]

Hmm, it got censored, but I can bet I know where you got those. I just got my Hilux decals in today from the same vendor in Canada.

[Pintopower 1456]

6 minutes ago, JoFan said:

Hmm, it got censored, but I can bet I know where you got those. I just got my Hilux decals in today from the same vendor in Canada.

Uhg yeah. Well they aren't hard to find. I have tried several companies and have been ignoring this one for a long time. We shall see if they are any good soon enough. Really wish T would license these out like Kyosho did. 

[NWarty 1325]

Those guys do a nice job, not perfect but pretty good  

[Pintopower 1456]

7 hours ago, NWarty said:

Those guys do a nice job, not perfect but pretty good  

Agreed. Thing is they are FAST! Ordered a ton of custom ones on Monday 2 weeks ago, had them on Wednesday! 

[richb77 78]

I ordered some graphics from them. They arrived in but the registration between layers was off. Fair play though. They send out (express) a replacement set that where spot on. 

As someone that likes to restore original release Tamiya period graphics are key and they do a good job IMHO.

 

[Pintopower 1456]

11 hours ago, richb77 said:

I ordered some graphics from them. They arrived in but the registration between layers was off. Fair play though. They send out (express) a replacement set that where spot on. 

As someone that likes to restore original release Tamiya period graphics are key and they do a good job IMHO.

 

Yeah you are correct. There is a UK guy that does everything but Tamiya. I bought his World Engines Rockbuster decals and they were just perfection. 

[Pintopower 1456]

I am finally close to completion of my GH2. I am really loving this so far. I still need to do paint details like the roof posts and cut lines, restore the awesome wheels that Mongoose sent me, swap shocks for Super Hornet ones and clear coat everything. There are some odds and ends but I could not resist sharing.

They finally look related:

[TamiyaBB 48]

Came out great so far. 

Maybe I'll steal some ideas for my GH 2 restaration.

[Pintopower 1456]

39 minutes ago, TamiyaBB said:

Came out great so far. 

Maybe I'll steal some ideas for my GH 2 restaration.

Thank you very much! Steal away!

[mongoose1983 3335]

Glad you got the wheels, that custom finished GH2 looks very nice!

[Scouser 83]

That is such a good looking buggy. Absolutely beautiful work.