Finally finishing up my shelfer Super Champ

Now that I feel some weight lighted from my shoulders by selling off some of my unfinished projects I've been able to feel free to work on some long overdue items - like applying the decals to the excellent, intact original Super Champ body that came with my great Super Champ score a few years back (see link at bottom of page).


It also helped that I was armed with a re-re body in case of total disaster as well as TWO sets of nice but non-original decals. Plus it appears that several of the re-re decals would work in case I ruined the originals. So I worked up the courage to finally give it a shot.


In case you didn't catch my How-To about sucking at painting - which I truly do - well, consider yourself informed that I am absolutely terrible at painting and only passable at applying decals. No matter how hard I try I never seem to get it all right. It doesn't help that I have an obsessive personality and every little imperfection bothers me forever!


BUT I was tired of seeing this sitting there unfinished. There are some additional bits I need to do to really make it nice - including, at least, new rear tires. It seems that the original boxed tires for this are not prohibitively expensive, so I think I'll go that route and pick up a new rear wheel / tire set and install them. The boxed fronts are another story so if I can't find affordable front tires I may add a new pair of re-re tires and leave the original wheels to match the off-white original shade. This girl is all original from soup to nuts, so if I can avoid any dilution of that I will.


Expect an update in the coming weeks!