Friday, January 25, 2013

Waiting for things to dry

While I am waiting for the glue to dry, I started looking through my "stash" of kits yet to be built.
My favorite question comes up.....
 
What am I going to build next?
 


 
Some of them you can't even see, the bottom 4 rows are actually stacked 2 deep, so there's more hiding in there. Plus I have another 8 or so on another shelf that you can't see.
 
So many to build....
I can't say so little time.. because they don't go bad or anything.
But it I keep buying them, like I am prone to do, I may never get them all built.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Another Nismo 400R Update

Over the weekend found a little time, and motivation to work on the 400R.
Finally got a decent coat of paint, and clear coat on the body.

Next step was decals and starting on the trim.


Getting there, and starting to look more like a real car, and less like a big red shell of a car.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Nismo 400R Painted... sorta

Got a little bit of time over the holiday weeks, and decided that it might be a good time to paint the body shell.
Since I only had one vote for red, I decided to just go with it.


Unfortunately, I discovered quite quickly that I had done something wrong, though I am not sure what it was.
Painting can often be tricky. It may have been a temperature problem (too cold) where I was painting.
It could have been that the red paint I was using "didn't like" the primer that I used.
It could have just been bad paint....
Or I suppose it could have been something I did.... probably not....

So here is what I got...

Not what you want to see, and not something that the final gloss clear coat would cover.
So after a couple of days or curing, I was able to sand it down and get everything smooth, and ready for another color coat....

Hopefully it turns out a little better, and does't crinkle up on me this time....