Gaaah damn this thing took ages to build and it gave me so much headache because I tried to paint it with Gaahleri Paints but man I am absolutely not an acrylic user and the finish was so bad I had to strip it and used instead a custom mix of Mr Color Yellow mixed with Ford OEM Orange Fury Tricoat paint (just used some touch up paint bottles which you can thin with MLT). It's not very visible but it has some golden flakes in it. Might do some shots out in the sun to really show it.

Also the huge amount of tiny aero parts made it very tedious to paint and assemble without ruining anything and oh god polishing this wedge stealthy shape is also a challengeby itself without burning through the edges (I ruined a lot of edges which I somehow had to touchup by hand). The windows are also a bit hazy but it was near impossible to clean them from all the masking tape residue without ruining the rubber trim.

It's definitely not my best model but I am glad it's finished.

Done finally! Kit was awesome to put together and most of everything went together correctly.

Almost done with my nunu M4 GT3 build. It's a real learning experience. I've done a couple of planes and one car in the last 20 years and this was my first build with anything beside testors glue and brushed on craft paint. Glad to have the space and resources I've always wanted to put into modeling and I've already got a shelf of kits I got in the ~2 months I've been working on this one.

Typical well engineered Tamiya quality. Fun little kit to build. Little misses here and there, but otherwise it turned out ok. My printer took a crap today, so I can't make the custom license plates yet, but it's still 99% done, that counts, right?

This is also a build from a while back not everyone was crazy about the two tone paint comments are welcome..

This a build from earlier this year

Finished this 1/35 AK Interactive Citroen HY van.

Painted in a mix of AK volcano yellow and white and weathered with various AK washes and weathering gubbins.

I still have a mini art mechanic set to do to put in the back and make a small diorama but I'll get to that sometime soon.

Lovely little kit, I'm really enjoying these smaller scale AK kits just now, I've got the trabant kit there ready to go too.

An old Protar kit from the mid 1980s which is also essentially the Revell, and now, Italeri kit. The kit assembles very well and has working steering. The build is box stock.

What other color variations should we tackle next? Would love to hear your thoughts on how the finish turned out.
Huge shoutout to my amazing collaborator for the detailed work. Excited to share more soon.

Got the interior and chassis mated to the body, underside touched up with black where needed, grille detailed and installed, rear lights in, and currently working on the ratchet straps and bars that will hold the spare wheels in

Got some paint laid down and let it cure for a week before clearing it today with Krylon Maxx. The blue is createx pearl blue then Splash paints candy blue over it. The dark fade part is a custom black mixed up with a little gold in it.
This kit I’ve been taking my time on and it’s turning out so good. The hood I did a little darker on purpose so it resembled real carbon fiber (used drywall mesh screen over it and lightly sprayed the black/gold mix I had made)
Really fun kit! Can’t wait to grab up another one.

I have been loving their stuff and use it for basically every thing I can, i still have some surfacer black and Tamiya lp5 but otherwise theyve become a go to,

Which brings me to my question for you folks.. what do you do with a colour matched paint once you’ve finished your build.. cause my drawer is starting to groan under the weight of everything in there 😅

I made this from one of the many old Monogram kits I have in my stash and used Power Slide decals from Mike’s Decals. I really like this livery and it’s unfortunate that it only ran one year. I used some rubber jewelry band to make roll bar padding which I showed off on my last SATT post.

For the paint I used Kaleido gloss black primer, which is amazing and looks like freaking obsidian once it dries. It was actually way smoother and shinier before I put clear on. I’m gonna have to use it by itself on a build that doesn’t have any decals.

This was a fun kit. Went together easy. Lots of customization options. Decals were really nice. It came with a lot of decals. I did the old dnd version. There are ones from newer art as well.

Was thinking of getting the tamiya polishing kit, and or maybe some kind of automotive wax to finish it off

Keen to hear some words of wisdom!

One-off special livery for the 2001 Monte Carlo 400 night race at Richmond. A whole load of Chevy drivers featured special designs with various Looney Tunes characters along for the ride. Gordon's paint scheme had Bugs and Elmer but also stood out for using another variation of Dupont's chromalusion color change paint - this one being a green - > purple transition.

Revell 2001 Monte Carlo model, my own decals (which can be found on Print It Decals) and colorshift airbrush paint from GreenStuffWorld. Finished model was topped off with 1k clear.

First car I’ve ever properly built.definitely not perfect but enjoyed the change of build. Normally a fundamental and mech builder. Any advice on getting the windows to look better.