Delta plastics Shelby Cobra Daytona

[WickedFog]

Love it man. Gonna be another cool ass rig.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I am going for a rat rod race car thing. I am working on the blue.

 

[Iowa crawler]

Doing a doctor evil over here. I got the lasers set up.
I put two lasers across from each other and lined them up. Then moved the body to center the rear tail light and the point on the hood scoop. I will mark this and tape it off. Hopefully I can get the stripe
Straight.
I found a better inspirational piece.
But It has two narrow stripes and I am not sure about the white front fenders. I need to do some research on this particular car.
But I love the weathering.

Now that I have the white base down I need to let that dry for a couple days. Then tape off the stripe and do the white and salt. While that is still wet it gets black over it all. Once that dries the blue goes on. After that I scrub the whole thing and expose the paint chips. Then the weathering and clear.

 

[Iowa crawler]

Got the stripes on.
Then paint.

White then salt with white at the front and then black and salt on that. Then a can of ps49 over black. Now I let it dry and wet want it . Touch up and clear.

 

[Doom!]

Can't wait to see the salt removed. I always like that part.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I ran out of paint. I have to spray the bottom and give it one more coat.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I want to use my airbrush setup to spray on the panel lines and other details.
Is acetone used to clean up polycarbonate paint ?

 

[WickedFog]

I want to use my airbrush setup to spray on the panel lines and other details.
Is acetone used to clean up polycarbonate paint ?

What paint did you use?

 

[Iowa crawler]

What paint did you use?

Tamiya PS49.
I will spray some into a jar and put it through my airbrush. Then I need to clean the airbrush.

 

[WickedFog]

Tamiya PS49

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What's that label say? I see ether there, but what else?

 

[Iowa crawler]

I did not think to read the label.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I found out the hard way that acetone is what cleans up polycarbonate paint. I put the inside masked over the glass and painted the chrome. And for the outside I just cut the spray on mask. But somehow I pulled the mask off the rear window. So after painting , I pulled the front and side masks only to discover I painted the rear window.
The fix was to tape off the frame and clean off the paint. Lucky for me the body comes with rear window frame.
I used acetone to remove the paint and mothers to clear up the white haze. But it still needs a bunch of polishing to repair. Kinda looks like plexiglass so I can live with it. And I won’t cry as much when I skid it on the roof.
I can always buy another body.

 

[gragner66]

I found out the hard way that acetone is what cleans up polycarbonate paint. I put the inside masked over the glass and painted the chrome. And for the outside I just cut the spray on mask. But somehow I pulled the mask off the rear window. So after painting , I pulled the front and side masks only to discover I painted the rear window.
The fix was to tape off the frame and clean off the paint. Lucky for me the body comes with rear window frame.
I used acetone to remove the paint and mothers to clear up the white haze. But it still needs a bunch of polishing to repair. Kinda looks like plexiglass so I can live with it. And I won’t cry as much when I skid it on the roof.
I can always buy another body.

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Nice job well done

 

[johnnydmd]

Love it! Gotta pick me up one of those bodies one of these days.

 

[9x19]

It still looks great. Well done!

 

[WickedFog]

Maybe if you can't get the window to clear up, hit it with some clear paint. Car looks awesome man. Are you planning on adding the white on the fenders when you get more paint? I love it on the car in the sample photos, and I think it would look great on yours as well.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I added wiper marks and flattened the side windows and the rear. The clear paint helped the back window a lot. Enough to make it OK.

Now I need to stiffen the shock oil and get a 3 s battery.

 

[johnnydmd]

Wow, that detail is way cool!

 

[WickedFog]

Was just looking at the car you used for inspiration again. The tar speckles on the front of that car could be done by flicking the bristles of a dry brush at yours with black paint.

This is my favorite body you've done man. I'm kinda jealous because the Daytona has been one of my favorite cars since I was a kid. I actually got to see a couple of them at a Mustang Club of America meet in Brownsburg Indiana. It was about 1/4 mile from my house at what used to be called Indianapolis Raceway Park. We saw a Ford GT going down the road and followed him in there. Best car show I ever saw. Lots of really cool vintage racecars there.

 

[Iowa crawler]

Thanks for the kind words. This build was a little out of my wheel house. But I wanted to retire my SCT for next season and I found the body. If I was starting over I would use a 2WD associated short corse truck as it has the proper 325mm wheelbase and I could stagger the tire diameter.

But I really am happy with this rig and will race it this summer. Everything I have is 1/10 scale . And I am thinking bigger. Like an 8 s felony for top speed trials