Auto racing GB March 2007-2008

 Building the DBR's at the same time does sound like fun. Also if I need any questions answered Ill know were to turn. I also have the Hiroboy paint for the DBR. V-formed windshield is something Im not looking forward to messing with. Mine should be here thursday or friday cant wait.  Say have you found any or know of any place were i might find wiring and fitting for the cockpit of the car....  also looking for as many pictures of the cockpit I can find...

Nope, none built. (Tbh, I've not even done many MM kits at all.) But I've been a fan of their kits since I got my first one and have built up a bit of a "collection". The newer F1's... trust me, they will make your jaw drop!

Just took it out the box and glanced through. Resin looks superb, the engraving looks just rightto be perfect after paint. If I am confident, there's a couple of places I might drill through where they just have indents. The main thing I am apprehensive about, is the windows - seems all are of these vac-formed ones you have to cut out. But the best thing (please other manufacturers...) are the rubber-backed PE! I jump of joy every time I see that! Btw, will be using Hiroboy's Zero colour for the DBR9.

Was wondering whether to do this or a Jag XJR-9 with SMS PE and CF - maybe the DBR9 will be a great oppurtunity to learn together. If the rest won't find it boring.

Sea,

   I got the 2007 LM DBR9 should be here this week. However I ment to order the 2005 Sprint version that ran a Sliverstone. I made a mistake when ordering it..........oh well is still going to be my first MFH kit and i cant wait to get it.  Ive heard lots of good things about MFH. Have you built any Model Factory Hiro kits?

  End this one on April 15th and start endurance group build April 15th ?

   Endurance Racing GB......  Sounds like a great Idea. 

Although I like the idea of a LeMans GB-I've got the Sebring Stars & Stripes Corvette in the stash and found a set of NART decals online that would fit the bill-I was wondering if it could be opened up to, say, an Endurance Racing GB to include Dayton, Sebring, etc.  Just a thought.  Would give me reason to pickup the Accurate Miniatures Grand Sport Corvette...

I am fine with pushing the build end date out a bit.

A Le Mans GB.....hmmmm.... 

 Hey Guys,

  I hope all of you are doing well?  I was wondering if we might extend this group build a few months? Life has been getting in the way of my modeling and it looks like Im going to be able to start back up just cant finish kit by march. Let me know if anyone has a problem with pushing back the end date....

   Plus I was thinking about a Le Mans GB????  My MFH DBR9 will be here next week.  Thoughts?????

   Dustin 

I finally got up the nerve to drop the body of the Stratos into Superclean and strip off that paint.

I found out what I did wrong....I sprayed gloss white Testors enamel, then for the green sprayed Tamiya lacquer. I have an airbrush now so I don't have to use rattle cans anymore! Hurray!

I just sprayed the white, once that dries and sets I am going to mask and do the green. Probably have pics by the weekend

well i didnt forget you all just finished up another gb of the uss enterprise cvn 65. so here iswhat i am up to just started today . on the radiator there are two prominent injector pin marks which i left cause i was scared of losing detail. unfortunately the engine is gonna be covered up anyhow :(

so here it goes sorry about the first pics being blurry

Finally I got a paint job that I can live with.  Ended up using Tamiya primer & semi-gloss black & clear coat spray cans and Slixx decals.  Although there is some orange peel, I'm going to cut my losses and actually start gluing things together.  Most of the small parts have been painted and I should be able to finish before the listed end date.  One pleasant surprise was when I was looking for a paint that would look like the aluminium interior of most race cars.  I saw a can of Testors MM Chrome spray at my LHS as decided to give it a shot-I might tone it down a bit with some flat, but I'm happy with it.  Which is good since I had to strip the chome plating off of the injector scoop-three attachment points on the spruce and the plating was too heavy anyway.

My daughter gave me her Bill Elliott McDonalds Taurus. She considers it too daunting and prefers looking at cars to building them...now I know why she loves Snap-Tites!

So, tonight I took it out during the Super Bowl and got the engine mostly done. Monday or Tuesday night my son and I will be working on the Todd Bodine Tabasco Grand Prix.

If you count the Tabasco car, that's 14 builds I've got planned for this year. Ai chihuahua! Of course, only some of them have due dates, so I'll concentrate on those, including these race car builds.

Lovely! Any interesting problems with the FW11? Mine still to be built...

The Lotus 80 is nearing completion. Just (haha, yeah right... "just" ) the suspension to go> Plus the wheels, obviously. The Lotus 107B's engine is nearing completion. Remember me wondering whether I'll succumb to decalling rather than going for the hectic masking and painting option on this scheme? Well, as it turns out, I had no option. Some of the sponsorship logo's are on the coloured decals and not supplied seperately - so you have to decal! Thusfar the decals (touch wood) are really impressive. The go down superbly, fit well, no worries. I am doing them very very slowly so that I don't accidently move one whilst busy with another. Inbetween the engine grew, the 80 got some attention... no rush!

I am applying decals to the MP4/2. This includes some aftermarket TABU decals for the schmoookiiin' stuff. However, I was somewhat disappointed in this. The decals were made brilliantly, they apply like a dream, except for it being split to try and circumvent legal issues, thus causing you to have to allign the boro with the first part every time. But what bother me was that the sizing seems somewhat off. I have been rather carefull when painting to refer to pics and drawings to try to get the red lines right. Yet the sidepod decals run into the red! And the rear of the rear wing does not cover the whole of the width... Likewise the decals next to the driver seems a bit big on initial application. There's no way to correct it, so I'll just have to grin and bear with it.

Anybody else run across this before? Or is it just my bad luck - or was my markings off? Will post pics shortly...  

First off - best wishes for 2008 to all you guys! Hope there's lots of completed models, little lost parts and paint-stripping ahead!

The Lotus 80 is coming along. Painted and decalled the body, just starting on the interior. Just had one mishap on a decal that stuck in a not-so-straight position... It's what happens when it shifts ever-so-slightly when you add the micro sol and then you quickly have to attend to your daughter who could not get past the exercise ball she moved into her own way, then, a minute later (max!) when you turn around and want to move the decal, it's allready stuck!

Also started on a Lotus 107B I picked up for a bargain at my LHS. It will be an interesting exercise in decalling! And the MP4/2 for which I don't ever seem to have time, found some attention and I did the rear wing. I think that counts as a model on it's own! Now onto the rear suspension and some decalling. Think the Lotus build is helping that one along, since I now am anyways working with WM and PE parts, so "while I'm busy" I just do some stuff on the MP4/2 as well. That as well as the intimidation factor that's gone out the window, because whilst working on a 43rd kit, the 20th just seems so much easier! (At least you can see everything and can hold it in your finger, you don't need a tweaser to hold eg. a steering wheel whilst painting it!

Darn, that's not good!

The TS paints are the only rattlecans I use. I almost allways give it a basecoat, also Tamiya (and allways white for the "colours" - for a black the grey will do fine.) I used the gloss black on a R390 a while ago and it worked just fine.

The most important things are to heat the can in water first, it helps with the diluting of the paint, making the flow and mix better. Then obviously you need to shake it a bit - I prefer to "swirl" it rather than shake it. Then build up with a couple of mist layers, about 15 mins apart, plus a thicker wet layer. And I usually still add some clear to that as well. Overall, very easy to work with and you get some very consistent flow. Just remember to have a thoroughly clean part to work on! When I've had issues, it was mostly due to dirty/contaminated surface.

If you have an airbrush and want to get really good matching paint for some other projects, also try Hiroboy's range of Zero paints. He mixes it to create some good matching shades for esp difficult to find/match shades. Very usefull for race cars with different tinges of the same colours. But you'll have to wait a bit for that, should you want some. For the black, I'd be more than happy to advise the TS paints!

Good luck with the black, let me know how it goes.