Chevrolet Corvette 68

This project is for now stalled

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I´m hoping to get this one finished for the next years C4-Open.. soo that means that I got about 12 months to finish it.. hope I can make it :)

// Rickard

that paint looks like glass!!!!

I will take some better photos when the sun has come out.. The body I think looks great.. I just sanded it, primed it and sprayed the black on.. no clearcoat or anything.. really happy so far with it :) I like this bodystyle of the Corvettes :)

that paint looks like glass!!!!

I agree....wow looking forward to the outside pics..

surprise, surprise.. yesterday I opened the box and the paint had cracked.. When I took thoose pics that´s in the thread the model is dry and everything.. I don´t know why this happens.. same thing happened with the Ford Capri.. but that´s not as bad as the Corvette.. :S

Where do you store the car?

in my room, up on a closet and the temperature is about 20 C.

Sorry to hear about the paint, it looked gorgeous!
What kind of primer and paint did you use, drying time between the two etc.?

Niclas

about a day apart..and the primer was the same brand as the black.. Well I just have to strip it and try again.. But this time I´m gonna have a go for red instead.. it´s just how a Corvette should be you know :)

I have always heard that you should paint over primer as soon as it's dry enough to sand, if you don't get the paint on right away, you should wait atleast a week for it to cure, or pop it in a dehydrator overnight for a rapid cure then paint the following day.

maybe it's because the primer is still flexible enough when it hasn't fully cured, allowing the paint to be able to "pull" on the primer without hurting the surface.

otherwise when the primer has fully cured it's not going anywhere and the paint will stay where it lays and the primer isn't trying to gass out through the paint

What paints did you use?

I personally use matching base paints as much as possible. enamel base primer, paint clear. or laquer base primer, paint, clear. urithane, yadda, yadda