here's the body waiting for a coat of clear. after that, i'll slightly wetsand it to even out the paint, recoat the black (hand-painted tamiya acrylic x-18 but when the clear went over it, some white basecoat showed up), then i'll put in the decals and panel lines, then a final clearcoat. after the clearcoat, polish it and then add race weathering.
here's the body with the rest of the decals. some of them like the BP logos are from the original water-soaked decal sheet as the printed logo didn't color well once applied onto the yellow body (should've masked it off so that the bottom is white and the green logo body comes out looking okay). worse, the two BP logos on the rear wheelwell covers on the rear cowl and the two smaller BP logos on the inside of the rear wing's sides can't be seen since the background color is black. same goes for the newman logos on the rear cowl and wing - it isn't visible unless you look for it intently. i tried to use the old decal and while it worked, it reacted badly with bosny clearcoat and wrinkled:
But...DISASTER!
turns out, the white stripes running on the left side of the car should be from the upper right down to lower left and not the way i painted it (upper right down to lower right). so, on to a bath in IPA:
for some reason i decided to buy a laser sticker sheet along with a new pack of scopa decal sheets. when i got home, i found the reason why - i'll be using the sticker sheet as a masking template for the body. the decal on the left, the sticker sheet on the right:
so while it's taking an IPA bath, decided to put aluminum tape instead on the engine bay, cockpit and underchassis (goodbye OOB build, partly due as well to the opened vents, hehehe). used masking tape as templates then put them on the aluminum tape for trimming (other templates not shown):
so here's the underchassis (taken before i repainted the black engine bay vents):
engine bay:
cockpit:
