thinking about selling some of my model junkers.

[Mark Preus]

Badass

[4bangen]

Thanks for the advice. By the way did you ever find that fox lx bumper you told me about?

One more thing. When you are doing the show room type builds, or builds you want to have a good shine, Urethane clears are great. There is a learning curve with them, but they typically lay down very smooth since they are self leveling. It is the only clear that I use on any of my builds.

Here are a couple that got an omni urethane clear







Last but not least, the 1:12th camaro I will probably never finish

[black2002ls]

I haven't. I'm heading to my storage unit next week, I will see what I can find. I may have some junker bodies that would be good for some of your builds that we could work a deal on as well

[CRASH]

Don't know if this will help any, but my striping paint is an enamel and I use PPG DTR602 enamel reducer to thin the paint. It's a medium temp reducer and works great in all weather conditions.

I use mineral spirits to clean my brushes. I originally used it to reduce the paint but the actual enamel reducer seems to work better.

-Aaron

[2165 Turbo Rail]

damn that car shines!

[grove rat]

i hate all you motherfuckers with skills...

[4bangen]

Lol, thanks for all the input guys. All this thinning and mixing stuff is new to me. All my other stuff has been rattle canned. But I'm all about the air brush now. I've already discovered a few trick to making my junkers look more real. And black2002ls, let's talk deals.

[black2002ls]

damn that car shines!

That was back when I was still building a lot. The base is dupli color from the can, the clear is omni urethane clear. I got pretty proficient at laying it down and not needing much buffing/sanding. IIRC, after the clear cured on that car, it got polished with some zymol wax and sent on to its new owner. I forgot how awesome those headlights looked until I pulled up the pictures of it.

Lol, thanks for all the input guys. All this thinning and mixing stuff is new to me. All my other stuff has been rattle canned. But I'm all about the air brush now. I've already discovered a few trick to making my junkers look more real. And black2002ls, let's talk deals.

Sending you a PM. I found some of the fox body casts that I had left over. Most of them are crap, I found one good rear bumper. Maybe I will come across the molds one day soon. I did however, pull all of my large scale (1:12th) out of storage. Maybe I will get a bench built for my new house pretty soon and get back to building. I have one of the new 1:12th GT500 kits coming. The engine and various other parts will be used to finish my '65 mustang. I'm thinking with the remaining shell I will go full race and build a road race version with full tube chassis.....

[4bangen]

cool, I've thought about picking up the new cobra and making a cobra jet.

[76 Maverick]

I need to swing by and check out your airbrush setup matt. I am actually looking for a good setup for myself. I need to quit being lazy and finish up my current model and get started on the others i have on the shelf....

[4bangen]

talk to me before you buy anything.

[76 Maverick]

Will need all the help i can get.... i've never used anything but a rattle can so i know nothing about airbrushes.

[Rotortrash]

I need to swing by and check out your airbrush setup matt. I am actually looking for a good setup for myself. I need to quit being lazy and finish up my current model and get started on the others i have on the shelf....

Time to dust the house!

[black2002ls]

One thing I have learned on the large scale kits. If you are spraying a metallic type paint, it is very hard to not end up with tiger stripes on the large surface with a low volume air brush. I've considered a couple of times finding a small HVLP set-up to spray them with so that they come out even

[76 Maverick]

Time to dust the house!

Yep.... that corner gets pretty neglected....