One of my future projects...

It's turning this:

http://www.bburago.it/DB_auto/41020.jpg

into this:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/818899dtmmb.jpg

It's the car that Michael Schumacher drove in DTM in 1991 :) I have already bought the bburago model (it doesn't even have the steering wheel!), but what I need is time (duh!), custom decals, and more pictures of the original Zakspeed MB. Hey, maybe anyone could help me with the last one?

Blimey! Rather you than me!

Mind you, I have just noticed you are from Estonia!!!:eek:

Can you get the sort of stuff we build there, stuff like Tamiya and Monogram/Revell?

Originally posted by Guiddy


Can you get the sort of stuff we build there, stuff like Tamiya and Monogram/Revell?

Why, of course! We are not really Zimbabwe... :lol2:

Originally posted by ales


Why, of course! We are not really Zimbabwe... :lol2:

Stop burdening yourself with over complex projects then and do something more readily available!!!:p

Well, actually I'm in the finishing stages of my first plastic car (1/24), but as I have no airbrush, it will suck. But it's first experience. I learned quite a bit from it (well, from mistake anyway :))

Originally posted by ales
Well, actually I'm in the finishing stages of my first plastic car (1/24), but as I have no airbrush, it will suck. But it's first experience. I learned quite a bit from it (well, from mistake anyway :))

Yep, been there done that!!!

Mind you, I only bought an airbrush last month! It's amazing what you can achieve with spray cans!

Originally posted by Guiddy


Yep, been there done that!!!

Mind you, I only bought an airbrush last month! It's amazing what you can achieve with spray cans!

BTW, I have a Debis Merc like that in1/24 scale!

Originally posted by Guiddy


BTW, I have a Debis Merc like that in1/24 scale!

Picture? Picture? picture??? Don't make me go into scooby mode :)

Originally posted by ales


Picture? Picture? picture??? Don't make me go into scooby mode :)

I haven't started the kit! It was a bit of a dissappointment actually as it was based around a road car!!!:mad:

Nice decals though!

So it's exactly the same as in the picture I posted?

Take pics of the kit anyway! :D :D :cool:

Originally posted by ales
So it's exactly the same as in the picture I posted?

Take pics of the kit anyway! :D :D :cool:

Oh I dunno! I'll go and have a look in the roof!!!

OK, here it is...
It seems to be an earlier version. You can have it if you want though, I won't make it!
http://www.Cyber-Showroom.com/pics/debis.jpg

Originally posted by Guiddy
OK, here it is...
It seems to be an earlier version. You can have it if you want though, I won't make it!


I can have it??? Really??? You'll give it to me??? :eek:

Originally posted by ales


I can have it??? Really??? You'll give it to me??? :eek:

Yeah, email me your address and I will send it over. Providing it isn't more than a few quid to post, otherwise I'll let you know and you can pay for the postage.
Shouldn't be too much though, it doesn't weigh much.
I'd rather someone completes it than it sits up in my loft!

You guys RULE! :D:flash: :sun: :silly2: :p :) :cool: :smoka: :smoker2: :licker:

S U R E ! ! !








Originally posted by Silver S2000
You guys RULE! :D:flash: :sun: :silly2: :p :) :cool: :smoka: :smoker2: :licker:

why do you say that? Well, we do :)
Why not make Guiddy another mod here?

BUGGER BUGGER BUGGER....Why the hell didn't i read this post a lot early on :( :( :(

Originally posted by ales
S U R E ! ! !


why do you say that? Well, we do :)
Why not make Guiddy another mod here?

A MOD? Come on guys, where would I find the time to do my models if you did!!!:rolleyes:

Unfortunately, even though my jobs pay well, they leave me little time to do what I really love!!! My models!!!:mad:

If I could buy time, I would!!!:D

I suggested because you're here online very often...

Originally posted by ales
I suggested because you're here online very often...

Thanks for the thought!

What would a mod do here?

I could tell you...


















...but you wouldn't be very impressed. ;)

Originally posted by Silver S2000
I could tell you...

...but you wouldn't be very impressed. ;)








So it wouldn't tempt me away from the WRX???:D

Alex, your kit is on it's way!!! I sent it this afternoon.

Originally posted by Guiddy
Alex, your kit is on it's way!!! I sent it this afternoon.

Thanks! I'm singing cheerful songs!

Here is a photo I couldn't help taking :)

Primered wheels in a heart-shaped box :) :) :)

BTW, I will be building Schumacher's car out of it ...

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/397113heart.jpg

Originally posted by ales
Here is a photo I couldn't help taking :)

Primered wheels in a heart-shaped box :) :) :)

BTW, I will be building Schumacher's car out of it ...

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/397113heart.jpg

Cool! I am getting much satisfaction out of watching someone build a model that was once mine!!!

Have you borrowed someone's digital camera? You may need to manually focus when doing such smale scale, as I do with mine!

Originally posted by Guiddy
Cool! I am getting much satisfaction out of watching someone build a model that was once mine!!!

Hey, no prob! Anytime! I can give youn that sort of satisfaction any day! Got any more? :) :) :) :D

Originally posted by Guiddy
Have you borrowed someone's digital camera? You may need to manually focus when doing such smale scale, as I do with mine!

It's a crappy Kodak camera, I will be giving it back today, and I don't think manual focus is possible with it.

Quck question, guys. Should I primer the metal body before I use putty on it, or should I apply putty to bare metal?

Originally posted by ales
Quck question, guys. Should I primer the metal body before I use putty on it, or should I apply putty to bare metal?

What are you trying to do? What sort of putty? Need to know it's chemical base!

Just automotive putty. I have no idea what's in there. But you have to mix components before use... Damn, am I a modelling monkey or what?:)

Originally posted by ales
But you have to mix components before use...Sounds like an epoxy. I don't know if that's good or bad. :)

OK, I will try it on bare metal. What I want to do are the "fat" wheelarches on the Merc (1:43). I'm confident it will work. Eventually...:)

I tried to paint the grille today, actually, add black ove the otherwise chrome grille. But the Humbrol enamel just melted the chrome paint! I guess I should have used Tamiya Acrylic, but guess what, the only model shop in town is out of most of Tamiya paints, as well as the masking tape and wax. The told me that they'd get the shipment this week... No they didn't. Never mind.

So am I right in assuming it was a bad Idea to try and paint with enamel over acrylic? Well, no biggie, just need confirmation that acrylic black will work

Yeah, Tamiya acrylic is really kind to anything, plus washes off really easy if you make a balls up!
Never heard of Humbrol enamel melting anything though!:confused:

Originally posted by Guiddy
Yeah, Tamiya acrylic is really kind to anything, plus washes off really easy if you make a balls up!


Will it harden eventually and be water proof?:confused: :confused:

P.S. Where do you get all those synonyms for "doing something wrong"?:lol2:

Originally posted by Guiddy
Never heard of Humbrol enamel melting anything though!:confused:

Well, one did have to find out sooner or later. It's not that the chrome paint was fresh or anything - it has been 2 weeks now since I sprayed it...:( :( :mad:

Originally posted by ales


Will it harden eventually and be water proof?:confused: :confused:



What the hell you gonna do with it??? Play with it in the bath!!!:confused:

Originally posted by Guiddy


What the hell you gonna do with it??? Play with it in the bath!!!:confused:

:lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::l ol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

No, I was thinking more about possibility of wet sanding...

Originally posted by ales


P.S. Where do you get all those synonyms for "doing something wrong"?:lol2:





English Language!:p

Originally posted by Guiddy


What the hell you gonna do with it??? Play with it in the bath!!!:confused:

:p :p