/r/ModelCars
This subreddit is the home of model cars, trucks and bikes. Feel free to share photos of your completed models, works in progress, tips and techniques.
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■ This subreddit is the home of model car, truck and bike construction from kits and scratch materials. These craftspeople take great pains and pride to create, photograph and share their masterpiece sources and techniques.
■ Feel free to share photos of your completed models, works in progress, tips and techniques.
■ If you have store-bought factory-made diecast cars and wish to display or have them evaluated, or, if you have questions about diecast, please post them to r/Diecast or r/DiecastCollectors or r/HotWheels. And also, give /r/DiecastCustoms a look.
■ For RC related mechanical posts, please post in r/radiocontrol, and r/crawling.
■ Please DO post your custom body builds in any material and your 3D printed body builds for whatever you are doing, slot car bodies, RC bodies and the usual static displays.
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Finishing my year off with these two!
Going to be making a replica of my dad’s Supra he use to drive when I was in grade school. This will be his Christmas gift! Then it’s Thanksgiving and a trip to Germany with my wife for vacation! Then I will be doing my first kitbash with this mini van. I want to create a Dodge version of the Ford Super Van or Renault Espace F1 van! Super stoked to continue this fun lifestyle!
18:43 UTC
Tamiya McLaren Senna - all parts layed out 😅
13:45 UTC
Help needed - paint colour
03:48 UTC
Clean windows?
I used Testors Clear Cement and Window Maker and things got, well, messy lol. What should I use to clean this up? Paint thinner? IPA? Something else?
22:31 UTC
Does it make sense to "stock up" on kits?
I'm relatively new to this hobby. I usually just finish a kit and then buy the next one.
But I've seen some of you guys' stashes and, my hat's off to you. It made me wonder if I should be doing the same.
Is it because of the fear that a certain kit might become unavailable in the future?
14:46 UTC
Revell Foxbody Mustang
Just sprayed the body with Tamiya XF7. Currently thinking of trying to do cherry red with it, but im not really sure how, any tips? Does the tamiya XF27 work?
12:26 UTC
Thoughts?
First kit. Just finished polishing by hand but see some slight orange peel. Next time will wet sand and polish base coat, not just the clear coat. And also may invest in rotary polishing attachments.
Anything else I should consider?
02:03 UTC
Kid's dream: initial D car kits to build for the next months...
Starting with Ryosuke's RX7. But fujimi doesn't have very good templates... Many plastic flaws to correct and gaps to fulfill with puty.
22:37 UTC
Quick question - How to paint you car body with a gloss finish
Ok so basically i want to know what is your go to routine to paint you car body. the biggest trouble i have is that when i pull my airbrush trigger to the max (to get that nice glossy coat) i ALWAYS have paint specks on my model. since I've changed of airbrush/compressor/paint/thinner i don't know where the issue is. maybe the way i do it ? What do you think ?
20:02 UTC
It's X18 day!
Anyone else dedicate a day to spraying, possibly THE most used color in 1:24th scale, automotive modeling, semi gloss black? 😆😆 I do, and I call it X18 day. Lol.
14:59 UTC
Super glossy finish?
I'm amazed at the super glossy paint jobs people can do here. I end up with orange peeling even when using an airbrush instead of rattlecans. Then I read about "polishing".
Is there a good youtube tutorial that shows how to do this?
03:34 UTC
0,2mm Leadwire as decorative stitching. I need to be way neather with the glueing but it looks ok'ish.
23:07 UTC