Progress: Revell ITR Metallic Blue

After mucking up the paint on my GT-1 EVO i decided to take a break from that car... which i just finished sanding and prineming again =\.

Just painted the body, starting interior and everything else soon.
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/121949DC2angle-med.jpg
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/121949DC2top.jpg
you can actually read off of it! if you can read backwards =)
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how does it look? i think it needs 1 more coat of paint. thanks for looking!

It doesn't look like you've used primer. Just make sure to do some panel lines. So what's the rest of the plans?

pretty blue. who makes that paint?

Yeah, didnt use primer i ran out on the gt1, i hope the panel lines could fix that. The plans are a fairly stock box buildup. Black/blue interior, a drop, and blue carbon fiber hood and wing centerpeice. The paint is Saphire metalic blue from Testors, its good i geuss but a little too runny.

How do these rims look? i got the idea from jdmhotrod's supra. the chrome kinda bleeds through but i think its a cool effect.
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/121949chromelip.jpg

The paint is shiny, and doesn't look to have any orange peel, which is good. But primer is a must. It looks like you didn't lay down any mist coats first, either. Mist coats are espescially essential along panel lines, edges, or any other corcer. The mist coat will help prevent and cover the spots that a thick coat will pull away from. That's why you have the white edges along your panel lines and edges. It seems like your final coat technique is good, you just need to do the steps that come before the wet coat and you'll have a killer paint job.

Other than that, the color is great and the rims are cool. Good work.

yup your right, i didnt do any of those things. but im still happy with how it turned out. thanks for the tips!

next time you do your wheels strip the chrome off then primer then paint and then the chrome won't bleed though. looks good so far.

Robert

next time you do your wheels strip the chrome off then primer then paint and then the chrome won't bleed though. looks good so far.

Robert
I like that effect, but I'm not feeling the whole blue rim thing. Maybe, if you'd have brushed some metallic white over them, it'd look better. White rims always look good with a bright blue car.

I like the color of the paint. Really nice blue.
The rims are pretty cool too. Keep us posted.

carbon fiber hood well... at least what its gonna look like. i have to redo it since the edges are a little rough. and yeah its kinda not to scale but its looks good.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/121949DSC01685.jpg

carbon fiber hood well... at least what its gonna look like. i have to redo it since the edges are a little rough. and yeah its kinda not to scale but its looks good.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/121949DSC01685.jpg


uuuumm. you may wanna rethink that. that weave is huge, it looks like a epoxy covered blanket. why don't you just go with regular CF? :dunno:

by the way the paint job looks great all things considered. keep it up!

uuuumm. you may wanna rethink that. that weave is huge, it looks like a epoxy covered blanket. why don't you just go with regular CF? :dunno:
That might be all he has access to. I think it looks great. Another way to represent it is a deep gloss black.

or the mesh teqnigue...i wrote a tut for it but its not in the tut section...maybe i should make a revised version

yeah, forgot that one. I just honestly prefer the deep gloss black over the cf and mesh, and everything else, but that's just me anyway.

decided to just go body color hood, hehe. well heres the engine bay and interior. i want to start doing the engine and other crap but im too lazy! enjoy !

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nice shine :thumbsup:

nice exterior and interior work!!! I like blue CF hood. :iceslolan

the engine! yay

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/121949Untitled-11.jpg

thanks for the complements! =D

I'm guessing you brush painted the engine and the engine cover? Looks good, but just a little thick.

IF he did, it looks good to me, that's about how my engine covers look, when they're not chrome, and I brush paint them

yeah, its so thick cause i accidently brushed it with thinner.... then red paint again right after. but oh well..

Looks good to me dude. I am not the best modeler in the world, but I am sure not going to knock your work. Its great to see you take pride in your work regardless of people telling you what you should and shouldn't be doing. make it how you want, and as long as your happy with it and enjoyed making it, thats all that matters.

I also rather the gloss black hood. If you've ever saw a 1:1 car with a carbon fiber hood, most just look black from a far. Just something to think about. I always thought all model CF looked outof scale. Just me. Here's an example of blue with gloss hood if your wondering how itd look.

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/integra5.jpg

the underside. i put extra care into this cause well, who the hell see's the underside of a model. its just a fun idea to me...

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looks sweet so far