206WRC progress thread (pics included)

[irupp33]

cool so far! Was the interior floor painted with the testors acrylic silver also?

[mel79]

Yes, interior floor is also painted with Testors acrylic silver (the kind that comes in those strange pouches).

-Mikko

[irupp33]

pouches?

[freakray]

Originally posted by irupp33
pouches?

There are a couple of brands of paint that come in a little pouch instead of a bottle or tin, they are pretty hard to describe.
The pouch is kind of like one of those drink pouches but it has a resealable valve at the top.
I would post a photo but I don't have any here, mine are all at my Dad's place.

Ray

[daggerlee]

Maybe the decal paper has distorted the color? I think they'll look fine off the paper.

Don't forget to clear the Tamiya acrylics with a nice lacquer before you polish

[Pug]

hey that looks great, the detail you have gone into suprises me how do you get the tinfoil to stick to the exhaust pipe? any help is great.

thanks

[Guido]

this thread is one for the bookmarks!

[RallyRaider]

Looking good Mikko, striking shade of yellow. The finish appears to be great already. Will you be using a clearcoat over the Tamiya acrylic?

[mel79]

Pug: I glued the tinfoil on the exhaust with Microscale Klear. I guess you can use almost any glue that is suitably sticky. Normal superglue (cyanoacrylate) may be a bit too fast for this purpose, but maybe the thick gel type would do.

Phil: I'm not sure about the clear coat yet. It would protect the decals nicely though, but I think I would have to use Tamiya acrylic clear and I think it yellows slightly in a couple of years I may just polish the paint and put on the decals and leave it without clear coat. I could put a coat of TS clear, but I don't know if it's safe to use TS clear on acrylic paint? Has anyone tried it? If there's any doubt about how these paints will react together then I'll pass the clear coat.

-Mikko

[flying finn]

I know, only english but: ONHAN SE PERKELEEN HIENO!!!!!

[max_speed]

WOW!!!!!!! Awesome work! the detail you add improve allot the car. Waiting for more progress pics.........

[Pug]

thanks for the help

[RallyRaider]

Originally posted by mel79
Phil: I'm not sure about the clear coat yet. It would protect the decals nicely though, but I think I would have to use Tamiya acrylic clear and I think it yellows slightly in a couple of years I may just polish the paint and put on the decals and leave it without clear coat. I could put a coat of TS clear, but I don't know if it's safe to use TS clear on acrylic paint? Has anyone tried it? If there's any doubt about how these paints will react together then I'll pass the clear coat.

-Mikko

Mikko I wouldn't try spraying Tamiya TS paints over any water based acrylic since the TS range are synthetic lacquer based. Lacquer over aqueous doesn't work! If you intend to clear coat then acrylic would be the way to go or maybe even future to get arround the yellowing problem you mentioned. If in doubt pass as you say, maybe a just a gentle wax would be enough to protect the decals. But I guess now is not the time to experiment, the techniques you used on your 037 worked well enough, just do more of the same!

[mel79]

Now I've polished the paint and all went very well. Unfortunately I can't take pictures because I managed to damage my camera and it's now being repaired. I'll give you some when I get it back.

Another unfortunate thing is that I found out that the radiator intake grille on the front bumper is wider on '99 Pug than it is on '02 Peugeot.. and I only got the etched parts for '02 because '99 parts seem to be hard to find these days (at least I couldn't find them from Mediamix or HLJ).

-Mikko

[mel79]

Got my camera back, here's some new progress pictures.

I finished the interior and rollcage. I made the map pouch on the co-drivers door by cutting a corner from the decal bag and made supports for it from two strips of thin graphic tape. The maps are just pieces of paper.



Test fitting the polished body. I noticed the windowpart doesn't need glue for attaching as the rollcage will push it against the body. That's nice, no trouble from glue smears.



Body with decals. The Renaissance decals went quite well on the body, although the red area on the front of the bonnet was a bit hard to get fit properly because the decal didn't want to go round the corners too well. Microsol and Microset didn't have a big effect on the decals, but still helped slightly on places.



The biggest works ahead are making the mudflaps and inside covers for the wheelarches. After that it should be just some detailing, assembling and finally a light weathering to give the car a dusty look.

-Mikko