For my new project I will be building my first rally car, if it turns out good enough I hope to enter it in a local contest. I am planning on doing Marcus Gronholm's #1 car. This will be a pretty straight forward build, with racing harness and CF decals. By the way, If anyone can show me some interior as well as general pictures of this car I would very much appreciate it!
Anyway, here are what I have done so far:
The body was sanded with the mold lines removed and the panel lines deepened. Then I shot a coat of Duplicolor white primer, then cleaned up some more faults the primer has exposed.
I shot the body with a few coats of Duplicolor silver laquer. I try to use duplicolor whenever possible as it is much cheaper than Tamiya and in my opinion easier to work with. Afterwards I shot the body with a few coats of TS-13 to add some shine and to prepare a surface for polishing.
Here it is after it has been polished:
The blacklines on the roof is masked off and painted with an enamel marker.
While I was waiting for the paint to dry, I also worked on the chassis. The underbody was shot with the same color as the body, and I wrapped the exhaust with BMF and painted the "engine" per instruction.
By the way, are anyone else having problems with X-32 Titanium Silver? I'm finding it an extreme PITA to work with, as it wouldn't stay mixed for more than a few seconds before separating.
Anyway, the exhaust is lightly weathered, as well as the transmission. I pressed some kitchen foil over a mesh screen to replicate the textured heat shielding. I find it much easier to work with than cigarette foil, as that stuff has a paper backing which I find hard to conform to curves.
Finally, I have scratch built some dampers to replace the molded kit ones. They are not perfect, but I am happy with them, espcially for my first attempt.
Anyway, sorry for the repetitive pictures. I got a new camera and I'm still trying to figure out all the settings and features.
