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1970 Dodge Charger – part 6

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I’ve been struggling with the paint from the start. Partly because I’m not used to paint cars that are supposed to be glossy. Lack of skills and technique is something I need to work on.
After finally having put on clear cote and letting it dry for about 2 weeks, I tried to polish it.

I started with trizact 6000 grit wet sponge/pad and carefully sanded the hood and then the roof. Trying to remove dust and other flaws. Then I used medium course polishing compound. It felt like a skin peeler. I was very careful with that and used a fine compound after that. The car looked like this afterwards.

It’s starting to get shiny but still needs some work. I used 3000 grit wet pad and worked some of the worst spots. Still very afraid that I’ll sand through.
On it again with 6000 after that and then I used Tamiyas fine compound before I used the very fine polish.

It’s better but it’s possible to see where I need to do more work. Feels like quite a lot of orange peel in some places. I’ll try to be as careful as I can and polish some more.
I also feel like I could use some really fine polish to finish it off with when I get that far.

This kit is set as a test kit for me to learn the skills so it’s okey if I fail, but I still want to try and make it as good as possible.


Ferrari 612 Scaglietti – Revell 1/24 – part 1

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I started building this kit as I was waiting for the clear cote on my Charger to dry properly.

My eldest son got it as gift many years ago, but he wasn’t really interested in building it.I asked if I could build it for him, and he approved of that.

I started prepping the body and started building parts of the engine.

As I’ve got myself a paint booth, I decided to try better colours than acrylics. The booth sits on the side of the desk right now, but needs to be placed in a better position as it takes too much space on the desk.

While trying to figure out the best location for it, I decided to start a bit with the interior.
After looking at pics I’m doing a mix of the instructions and how I wanted it based on the pics.

A lot of masking and painting, one colour at the time.

I’ve started touching up a few spots and doing some detail painting. Still got some more to do, and I plan to make belts for the rear seat.
I really do like the colour combination on the interior.

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.

1970 Dodge Charger – part 3

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The engine was painted and assembled, and then I painted details.

I masked the center console and painted chrome.

I also painted chrome on the side panels.

There’s still a few spots that needs some touching up.

After priming the body I realised there was a few mould lines to take care of.

Some sanding later and also some more primer.

I then tried some pink on a few parts.

Looked quite good to me.

Hood and body ready for paint.

The hood went quite well.

But for some reason disaster struck while painting the body.

I actually went to the paint store and bought some wet sanding pads in 3000 and 6000 grit.
Then I used the 3000 grit to remove as much as needed.

After that it was time for a new cote of paint.

This time it looked a lot better.

The hinges for the hood was glued in place and next I’ll paint primer on the inside and also on one more part for the engine room.

Next I’ll hopefully can paint a gloss varnish on all the pink parts.
I’ll also start assembling all the parts for the chassie that I’ve been painting but forgot to take pics of.

1970 Dodge Charger – part 2

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The colours I was missing arrived so I could continue with this build.
Several parts was painted black, and I also repainted the engine and air filter.

Some parts like the seats and other interior parts is supposed to have a semi-gloss look. It turns out I had no clear satin colour, so instead I used Vallejo’s gloss for metal finishes and painted a thin layer, thus achieving a satin look.

I gave the engine a little more paint to get a glossier look.

I need to mask the mid console and paint that semi gloss later as well.
Once everything is dry, I’ll mask the interior roof and paint white primer before painting it pink.
That way I can check for imperfections as well.

BMW R 1100 Roadster – Revell 1/9 – part 1

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I started building this kit on the weekend build meeting. As I understand it, it’s an old Protar kit in Revell re-boxing.

There’s quite a lot to sort and paint before any assembly can be done.

Here’s a pic of most of the parts. It wasn’t until I got home I could take another pic of what I had done.

I had bought this kit 2nd hand, and as it turned out, one part was missing. Not sure what to do about that. I decided to continue a bit further, until that part is needed.It’s the holder for the head light and turn signals that’s missing, and I’m not sure if I can scratch build something like that.

1970 Dodge Charger – Revell 1/25 – part 1

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On the weekend build meeting we had last weekend that we call plastkollo (plastic camp), I bought a kit from one of the members. I thought it could be a fun build.

The kit seems to be quite nice with good fit on the parts. As usual starting with the engine that should be mostly orange. I didn’t have any orange colour and my pink colour was messy with a big lump in the bottle. It ended up in the bin.

I borrowed orange colour from a friend and managed to paint it a little to wet. Then I decided to paint most of the interior and chassie parts black. Turns out there was very little black left in the bottle. I have to order new colours and a few other things that I need.
Anyway, this is how much I got done before it was time to wrap up the meeting and go home.

Pic taken at home though as I forgot to take a pic at the meeting!

Raider’s Coach – part 5

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Most of the chromed parts are glued in place and the hood got decals. Not perfect, but after a while it wasn’t possible to move them at all. I also failed with the decals for the front. I was hard to make them wrap around in a nice way, so I gave up.
Not much left to do. I need to touch up some chrome parts and do a clear coat on the hood.

Next update will be for the final reveal.