/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.
■ 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.
■ Most importantly, please keep everything positive!
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Some more good details. Added bag brackets, working on links, and detailed the aftermarket seats and added door panels from a 51 Chevy bel air kit.
Here’s the primer on the body of the 1971 dodge demon. Next is to spray using tamiya red lacquer
Amazing selection of whatever you can think of. Even found a sealed C9!
I just sprayed on the first coat of tamiya grey primer and will add more later tonight. I will then start fully working on the model for the month of October
I just recently acquired around 20x half or 3/4 completed kits. Some kid ditched the hobby and I'm reaping the benefits. No crazy special kits, they're all run of the mill. Nonetheless, the kid did a good job all things considered. Aside from excessive glue globs and not painting the chassis.
Anyhow, how does this community feel about second hand kits? I like them because I can create my own abominations and they're cheap.
How do you guys feel about getting second hand kits that are half painted and glued?
Is there an easier way to mask seats? This is 2mm tape that I will continue laying out like this and then use an exacto knife to trim around the inner cushion.
I tried using a single large piece of tape to place over the entire seat and then cut around the inner cushion but it turned out terrible.
Any suggestions appreciated.
I wanted something quick and easy to throw together, so I pulled this from the stash. Putting on the last few parts while the clear on the rear spoiler bakes. The build should be done tomorrow.
The mustang fastback is complete
So, I've used Tamiya primers and Tamiya paints in cans exclusively together for a while and have had great results. However, I need some more primer and my local store only has Mr. Hobby surfacer. Has anyone had any experience using Mr. Surfacer primer with Tamia spray paints? Do you get the orange peel effect or notice that it has a reaction? I've used other primers in the past, like Rust-Oleum, and when using the Tamiya color sprays I get an orange peel effect or some type of chemical reaction that literally destroys it. Does anybody have any suggestions or have any experience with this? Thanks!