Hum Hum - change in plans mkII
After last update, I decided to remove a little bit of orange peel. I sanded it down, put some more clear on and OUCH!!!
This was also all over the body.
At first I didn't have a clue what had happened, particularly that it just started happening as I was finishing up - all of a sudden my airbrush was spitting globs and leaving moon-like craters
I got some really helpful advice form a lot of people here but something someone said in passing set an alarm off in my head and I let the air out of the tank of my new compressor, unscrewed the drain screw an......the Mississippi flowed out!!!
Guess which idiot
consciously didn't fix a water trap to their compressor? Yep. I was really surpised at the amount of moisture that had collected in the system after only approx 10 re-fills. I now have a 10$ watertrap/filter and I also made a new, transparent air-hose (sort of visuaa "early warning" device, I hope).
I resanded the body with 1200, 2000 grit and 6000 micromesh and re-sprayed the clear and I am now calling this a save despite some minor flaws which are still present.
This is how it looks now (and stays
)
By this point (last night) I was pretty depressed about this build - no flames and painting hell.
The flames and colors were supposed to complemet each other and now I had a pretty boring Dark Blue Prowler.
Then I borrowed a trick from my Daytona. I had a nice dark, smooth and glossy grill, so I masked off and hit it with Alclad II Chrome just for the fun of it.
I think with the chrome bumpers (which were originally just for fun) and by leaving the (thick!!) glass covers off the lights (artistic license
) it will liven things up a bit..?? I think it even looks a bit "Demonic" and "Prowler-ish"
And a quick trial run with the tub attached.
There's a
Slim chance I might get this finished over the weekend