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Post by somatawichu on Jan 28, 2010 17:50:21 GMT -5
Ah...tiburon...such a girl's car. What's the theme going to be? I'm telling ya...need to do the Pontiac Aztek and build a Republic Gunship. You'd get much respect from this community! I'm making a Gunship out of a short bus. I think the Aztek is ugly but it would work too.
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Post by Red Two on Oct 11, 2010 1:29:16 GMT -5
So a whole lot of nothing has been going on with this design for some time. Now, the car is now nearly paid off and some further bumper damage has occurred since the initial side door; it has been up and down the hard streets of L.A.; and now near three years in, here's the current concept with what it looked like before this afternoon. As opposed to: I'm sticking to the basic concept of blue leader, but it might be Blue Two instead. As of today, the base panel colors are all there. There are streaks, drips, patches, bugs and bird nuts sprayed onto the body. But the basic panel layout is there. Each of the following vids is one weekends notes with this being the third weekend today. Next week i expect to get the front fender done and some possible tests on the airbrushing. This design will only snap together once the airburshed panel lines, marks, laser blasts and etc are done. Los Angeles air will do all the weathering by itself. I'm glad I may never need to pay for another car wash again. I am debating getting it sealed at a maaco or similar place. I think it can be done for ~$150, which is certainly reasonable for a baked-on coat of clear sealer. As opposed to me doing rattle can matte spray. MtFbwy
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Post by Red Two on Oct 11, 2010 1:29:54 GMT -5
MtFbwy
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Post by Red Two on Oct 23, 2010 22:49:32 GMT -5
Got the Fender and the Hood repainted. Second thing was starting the panel lines and scorch marks. It has a long way to go. Will see about getting some pix of it. Primarily I'm working with video. Much easier to deal with.
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Post by Red Two on Oct 29, 2010 12:35:18 GMT -5
Ok. So I've been thinking and while any die hard may know of Blue Squadron, the General Public ain't got a clue. Therefore, this girl's getting the red stripes of Red Squadron. I've got some photoshoppin' ta do, so watch for that coming up.
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Post by Red Two on Dec 3, 2010 22:53:39 GMT -5
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Post by Darth Marmalade on Dec 5, 2010 15:18:24 GMT -5
Looks great! I need to do something with my new car, but may have to wait until spring. I might be able to get a little painting in during the warm spell that Baltimore usually gets around the new year.
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Post by Red Two on Jan 1, 2011 0:50:47 GMT -5
Pix and more details to follow. I'm revamping the website now,
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Post by Red Two on Jan 14, 2011 23:30:49 GMT -5
I am very close to making the decision to add greeblies in the form of household blister pack plastic shapes to the car's surface. Any standard model part, sprue and misc that will fit, even considering styrene sheet across the body for real depth and surface.
I need to figure what glue. Blister pack doesn't respond to superglue. On the styrene, superglue would likely rip the car surface apart; and being able to pull it all off and refinish the surface would be nice if possible. Some kind of epoxy perhaps.
Being light plastic packaging, I guess I could get fined for littering if any fall off, but that should be about it. There's no way a piece flying off could cause damage to another driver.
A perch extension to house R2 Dome is a must. Getting the glass pulled and a professional back wall built and replaced, that would be the ideal. Getting sponsorship would do even better!
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Post by Red Two on Mar 7, 2011 0:33:47 GMT -5
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Post by Red Two on Mar 28, 2011 9:07:34 GMT -5
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Post by Red Two on Apr 5, 2011 22:51:59 GMT -5
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Post by Darth Marmalade on Apr 6, 2011 8:41:48 GMT -5
That is really looking awesome!
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Post by Red Two on May 23, 2011 8:02:12 GMT -5
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Post by Darth Marmalade on May 25, 2011 20:34:28 GMT -5
I love how you're not afraid to experiment on the car itself, and do something over if it's not working for you. The weather has probably been ok here for awhile for me to start painting my car, but I haven't got a design I'm happy with yet. I should just go start on some part of it.
How do you prepare the surface? On my last car, I had problems with the new paint not sticking, even though I thought I'd cleaned things pretty thoroughly. I'm looking at nail-polish remover, scouring powder, steel wool, and sandpaper to remove any wax and such that might be on my car now, but I don't know if any of them will be effective.
In any case, good work on yours! It looks great!
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