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1970 Dodge Charger – part 5

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Here’s a pic of the damaged decal.

I assembled the tires and used some Tamiya black panel liner around the lug nuts.

After trying to adjust the stripes, it looks like this.

I used panel liner again to black out the grille a bit.

I wasn’t entirely happy with that so I added more black later.

I thought I use polyurethane gloss varnish to get a nicer and hopefully harder surface so I painted a few parts with it.

I thought that looked alright so I decided to paint the hood and body as well.
That didn’t go as well.

Not sure if I flooded the colour too much as it started to puddle. As it dried it got a bit more even, and I decided to try and wet sand it and do another cote on top.The varnish looked hard and nice on the front and rear parts and after a day I thought it would be hard enough to sand a little, but then this happened.

The varnish started rolling off and had a rubbery consistence. I guess I’m not patient enough. Anyway I removed the varnish to the best of my capability, and then had a go with Vallejos gloss varnish for metal colours. I did a try on the hood.

Maybe not perfect, but a lot better than I had hoped.I’ll lay a cote or two on the body as well and hopefully that will work out okey as well.
My idea is to try and polish it later, but this time I’ll wait at least a week.

1970 Dodge Charger – part 4

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I used the decals for the wood panels and instruments.

I think it turned out pretty nice!

While the decals was drying I assembled the front and rear assemblies.

After touching up and giving the seats a bit of clear varnish the interior parts looked like this.

Then the interior was assembled.

I glued the firewall and did a test fit of the interior and engine on the chassie.

By the looks of it, it seems to fit very well.

I realised that I had missed painting clear varnish on the firewall, so I masked off the interior and varnished it with some of the other parts.

The body also got gloss varnish.

I actually gave the body another cote of varnish before starting to add the decals.

The decals on the hood was fairly easy and only required some slight poking and some microsol to look nice.
The stripe on the back was a whole other story. It went fairly well on the left side and on top of the trunk, but the other side didn’t fit with the opening for the reflex on the side.
After trying to get the decal look right it started falling apart so I didn’t dare work anymore with it.

I put on the rest of the decals on the body and will let it dry properly before I continue.
My idea is to use white and pink to try and rectify the broken decals.

I’ll see how things work out.