Slippery when green.

Finished my RSR. A VERY time consuming project and a tedious one at that. If I had had one of these as a kid it would have looked a real mess. I disassembled the entire body piece by piece. It had been originally put together 30 some years ago with super glue type material. I carefully pulled, pried and chiseled it apart. I then carefully went in and dremeled out heavy rock hard deposits. I then started to sand the parts which took a LONG time as I went in order of about 5 different grades of paper. I had several email chats with a couple club members (442xcar and slimmy..thanks guys) about variations and parts- things NOT to do. I decided to leave the plastic green and clear coat it..it was not an easy choice as I had seen it in Cobalt Green and it looked awesome BUT..I'm glad I did..I like the simplicity of it and it says to me what identifies this car. I finished it out with spare parts from the static RSR kit which is older than this car so I didn't feel any guilt about that - I gave it a nice mesh grill, some of the little bits here and there. I had originally had the interior on the doors but not enough space due to the battery holder on the chassis. The decals were super thin and easily flipped upon themselves. It happened with the front hood stripes...I ended up cutting and splicing it, nearly avoiding disaster - it did manage to lose some ink in the process of carefully unwinding it but minimal and I was lucky. A very slow and difficult project for a guy like me. The stripes on the wheel wells do wrinkle a bit...something nearly unavoidable but they laid down pretty decent for me. Lots to talk about as it was a complicated project that I'm REALLY glad is finished.