Post by treswright on May 16, 2010 20:13:42 GMT -6
I've got a thread on "Completed" that shows the Zingers I've been building lately. This is number 4 in the past month. This one is taking me a bit longer than the others, so I thought I'd post a progress shot of it:
Paint is Tamiya white primer, HOK Orion Silver base (2 coats), HOK Apple Red Candy (3 coats), one coat of clear with rainbow flakes added and 4 or 5 more clear coats over that. Then it was hand polished, the decals were added and 2 more clearcoats went on over that. Whew! The paint has a lot of movement in it which doesn't photograph well.
The decals are a nod to the Little Red Wagon drag car, it had at least three decoration schemes and this is loosely based on the below scheme:
I'm not trying to copy the real thing as the model isn't even the right year, so this is more of a tribute. The decals were run on my Alps printer. The sponsor decals are spoofs, they are actually Deal's Wheels decals. I used them because I had the artwork already from doing all the DW decal repops, plus I felt like they matched the cartoony theme of the car well.
All the other parts are painted and it's pretty much ready for final assembly, I should be putting it together this week and hopefully posting completed pics by the end of the week
Paint is Tamiya white primer, HOK Orion Silver base (2 coats), HOK Apple Red Candy (3 coats), one coat of clear with rainbow flakes added and 4 or 5 more clear coats over that. Then it was hand polished, the decals were added and 2 more clearcoats went on over that. Whew! The paint has a lot of movement in it which doesn't photograph well.
The decals are a nod to the Little Red Wagon drag car, it had at least three decoration schemes and this is loosely based on the below scheme:
I'm not trying to copy the real thing as the model isn't even the right year, so this is more of a tribute. The decals were run on my Alps printer. The sponsor decals are spoofs, they are actually Deal's Wheels decals. I used them because I had the artwork already from doing all the DW decal repops, plus I felt like they matched the cartoony theme of the car well.
All the other parts are painted and it's pretty much ready for final assembly, I should be putting it together this week and hopefully posting completed pics by the end of the week
This is one of the reasons it takes me so long to build stuff, I make changes during the build when I don't like something. Just on these Zingers I've been doing recently I've stripped and repainted bodies and motors because I didn't like the colors. I always -think- I have it worked out, but when I see it it's often not what was in my mind's eye 
At least it keeps me off the streets 
