Since most of you know 2 things about me i figured a page for those 2 things is needed so you can check up on things as they progress.
For those of you who don't know me:
1. I am a natural born tinkerer...even if the model/chassis works fine I'm always one to try something different.
2. I am an epic procrastinator! I've had some great ideas in my head for years....sooner or later I'll try them out. I have a bunch of ideas on the go and a couple new ones coming for me in the mail...with our summer racing season coming to a close I figured I'd make a go of getting some done.
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my first finally completed project is one I'd been thinking about for a year or so. When i finally got a drill press attachment for my Dremel i figured that would give me the steady drilling I needed to complete this task. It's a simple project but a good start for my pile of stuff I want to do...
I don't know if i'm the first to try it but I thought since I had a complete MR02 A-Arm sitting around doing nothing why not mount it to my MR015.
This bad boy will be asf (ra-22) in a couple weeks...it's going to be a short wheelbase racer and I hope it'll kill the competition.
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So I bought a tamiya airbrush kit about 6-7 years ago for my wife when she was making signature decorative chocolates. It got used once and she didn't like it....
Pulled it out today to start with my new color scheme for all my upcoming white bodies. No more plain white for me.
Thanks to my buddy Landon I'm going to try and reproduce his awesome work with my Repsol Honda HSV on all my racing fleet.
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That's one thing I wish I had, an airbrush. But then I'd need an air compressor and probably a garage to paint in. Wait a minute, that airbrush just got really expensive. Never mind, I'll stick with cans.
The one thing I'm going to have to work on is my taping skills. Areas that didn't get sealed quite enough have obvious colour flares.
I'll get some shots done by end of today...my practice 430SC body is up to its red layer so I imagine I can get close to finish tonight.
I'm hoping to get a compressor as well. The tamiya is a basic air pump and works fine but it'll take forever to do 10th scale bodies with it. I got a Badger dual stage siphon system from a friend in a huge RC gear purchase so I'll have that to use as well.
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The red is a bit more Ferrari Red than I'd like compared to the candy red Landon got on my Honda and the Orange when sprayed onto a primer comes out a bit more orange yet in the container has the golden hue I was hoping for. I hope when my next round attempt goes on my Mosler it'll look a bit more golden orange.
I'm going to let this cure a couple days and then wash it to remove the tape residue...then clearcoat and my first ever completed paintjob will be in the books.
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Tried some color mixing ideas to match the great color Landon used for my Repsol Honda...
A mixture of Orange, white, yellow and a bit of gold to get close:
Gold underlay with a clear orange topcoat:
I like both but I'm going to try a combination of the two mixes to get what i'm hoping to acheive...I'm hoping mixing a tiny bit of yellow in with gold will lighten it and then the clear orange top coat will hit the mark I want.
I was also able to get my favorite two part epoxy from a place in the city so I'll be starting a scratch cfrp chassis in the very near future. I just have to decide which of my many ideas I should start with...
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