salvage yard Tamiya 1/24 "911 GT1" 1996
I paid $4 for this as a "built model'.... so I don't have to make all my mistakes on the kit I've been building for the last, oh, 13 years. Its nice to see what it all looks like together, even if its not exactly straight and the painting was haphazard. Whoever built it committed themselves, built the whole thing, leaving nothing off, sprayed the body with Orange because that's what they wanted. I admire them and I hope they enjoyed it. Glue splots on the windows and all. They took a shot at it. I intend to improve the kit and try my own ideas of for painting, but I give full credit to the original owner/builder. If you aren't having fun with this stuff, you're doing it wrong!
When I got it, the whole back end fiddly bits were painted 'steel' with a bit of 'aluminum'.Under tray and air intake were black , and firewall. All 'steel' other than that. What you see here is some quickly applied Polly Scale Flat Aluminum, a dark gray, white, off black and Model Master Acryl Engine Exhaust (the goldish exhaust pipes and brake calipers.)
Just to get an idea of what it might look like. Compared to everything 'steel' it looks pretty good, actually. Sure is a lot of globby looking paint there. I've subsequently done some carving, scraping and sanding stick and loose wet-dry paper sanding to make the structural tubes, exhaust pipes, axles, etc, look more beautiful.
Its very firmly glued together and I briefly considered using Testors 'ELO' Easy Lift Off paint remover to take it all back to basics. So far, I'm content with sanding, but might might happen.
My real purpose here is to get reasonable color coverage, try the specific colors I think are correct, and see what it looks like with metal and plastic simulated pipes and hoses. So I need to clean it up, then start drilling holes where the wire ends belong.
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salvage yard Tamiya 1/24 "911 GT1" 1996
I paid $4 for this as a "built model'.... so I don't have to make all my mistakes on the kit I've been building for the last, oh, 13 years. Its nice to see what it all looks like together, even if its not exactly straight and the painting was haphazard. Whoever built it committed themselves, built the whole thing, leaving nothing off, sprayed the body with Orange because that's what they wanted. I admire them and I hope they enjoyed it. Glue splots on the windows and all. They took a shot at it. I intend to improve the kit and try my own ideas of for painting, but I give full credit to the original owner/builder. If you aren't having fun with this stuff, you're doing it wrong!
When I got it, the whole back end fiddly bits were painted 'steel' with a bit of 'aluminum'.Under tray and air intake were black , and firewall. All 'steel' other than that. What you see here is some quickly applied Polly Scale Flat Aluminum, a dark gray, white, off black and Model Master Acryl Engine Exhaust (the goldish exhaust pipes and brake calipers.)
Just to get an idea of what it might look like. Compared to everything 'steel' it looks pretty good, actually. Sure is a lot of globby looking paint there. I've subsequently done some carving, scraping and sanding stick and loose wet-dry paper sanding to make the structural tubes, exhaust pipes, axles, etc, look more beautiful.
Its very firmly glued together and I briefly considered using Testors 'ELO' Easy Lift Off paint remover to take it all back to basics. So far, I'm content with sanding, but might might happen.
My real purpose here is to get reasonable color coverage, try the specific colors I think are correct, and see what it looks like with metal and plastic simulated pipes and hoses. So I need to clean it up, then start drilling holes where the wire ends belong.
IMG_5961