SHOCKER, a painted body, not by me. LOL
Well, I have had this over a month now and finally dug up some time to shoot photos with my new camera. I had a rough last couple of months with no camera to shoot my very slow progress on building stuff.
HUGE Thanks go out to Stefan aka Mincemeat for painting this Mini as well as a Castrol CiviC which is giving me bigger fits with decals than this little gem gave me.
I wasn't going to put as many decals as I do have on this originally, but as I cut more and more out, I was getting more confident in my skills. Mind you, I haven't put decals on a car in at least 5 years or more!!!! I am SOOOOOO lazy. :D I knew I had to have the roof decal, so ages ago I bought some decals that were done very nicely and in thick vinyl and so it was finally time to use them. I used a few of them and struggled for what seemed like hours on the roof decal. I still don't love what happened with it and it is covering the lovely paint job that Stefan did, but it should provide a small amount of protection from my bad driving skills when it rolls over. I will probably pull the decal off after a while, but for now it has grown on me, warts and all, so it stays.
I can't tell you guys what color blue this is as Stefan custom mixed it for me and I can't say enough THANK YOUs to him for the impeccable job he has done on this and the CiviC. I can say how great I feel this came out, as blue is my favorite color and he hit the nail on the head with this mixture.
I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do and stay tuned as I am working on a chassis for this as well as mustering up enough nerve to start carving away on those Castrol decals for the CiviC which has a chassis already.
Chris
Comments
mongoose1983
So you got a new camera, Chris! The Mini looks fantastic and very realistic. Have you got the chassis, do you. So when are you going to go with the special Bruiser? Back to the Mini, think you really need to find a chassis for the car. Not sure I'd run that body though, it looks way too good for bashing.
Crash Cramer
No worries Erich, it won't get bashed, driven nice and slow after I figure out how the chassis performs sans body. It is what I have done with the FF platform the CiviC is going on. I have driven the FF chassis, now to finish that body up.
I should have a chassis sourced and built soon on this, the Bruiser is ANOTHER story, but getting there very slowly. Thanks buddy.
Wyoming
sharp looking mini Chris
Tamiyamandan
WOW...Very Nice !!!!!!
ModifiedMan
Love the paint job Chris! Can't wait to see it on a chassis and also looking forward to seeing your Civic
jeekelemental
onionnion Jack on the roof, a classic!
Pintopower
Look, my rule of thumb is, if they look good in pictures, they are perfect. You will beat yourself up aiming for perfection. It looks fantastic.
Crash Cramer
Hey thanks guys, but I can't take any of the credit, Stefan gets all the kudos, all I did was drop it off with him and my wishes for what color it was to be. I did add the decals, but that was far less work I think than spraying the many layers of paint and masking it all. These photos don't show it well, but the wheel arches are actually black, then there is the silver grille, so the accolades all go to Stefan. Thanks MinceMeat, I want to send you more paint work to do.
Mincemeat
Chris, it looks good. The color looks good with the protective film off! Next go around we will mask of and paint in the onionnion jack on top and the stripes on the hood!
Crash Cramer
What is with all the onion lovers out there??? I thought it was called the onionNION JACK.
Crash Cramer
Well, now I see the problem, the TC comment machine doesn't seem to like the letter 'U'???????? Mods???
Meakz1973
luvverly jubbly! God Save the Queen!
MAD-BEE
Looks great! Nice job on the decals Chris!
tuff bug
The colour really suits this nice job on the painting
beefmuffin
dad, your spy car is a mini?! nice work chris - but just to drive you CRAZY i'll say this: the diagonal red stripes should all be offset toward the counter-clockwise direction.
Crash Cramer
Thanks Beefy, only problem is that I am ALREADY CRAZY
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