Archive for the ‘How-To’ Category

Skyline the hardest work done?

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Over the last couple of days I di fit the body kit for the skyline so that the huge gaps in the body lines may disappear. It took quite some sanding and refitting to get where it is now:

Skyline Body left side

Skyline Body left side

Skyline Body right side

Skyline Body right side


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masking … a different approach.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Sometimes you need to mask of areas differently if you don’t manage by “just” applying strips of masking tape around the area you want to have masked. Here is a different approach, you apply the stripes all over the area and then use a scalpel (a sharp one so be careful!) to cut out the area you want to paint. Here the area are the 2 rear air scoops in the rear area of the Porsche.

Detail view of the masked area ...

Detail view of the masked area ...

... and the cut out area afterwards

... and the cut out area afterwards

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Masking and Spraying

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Last week I went to town wif Claudia, my wife. Actually I don’t like at all going to town, but as a “reward” I got myself some new propellant for the old airbrush. OK … I didn’t have the other 2 guns yet so I thought let’s go for it with the old one. I masked the right side of the Porsche 936-78 to give the air duct a bit of the old red colour that the LeMans Car of ’78 (Jacky Ickx , Henri Pescarolo, Jochen Mass) had. Additionally the rear wing gets some of that red as well.

View of my "Paint Booth" ...

View of my "Paint Booth" ...

Detail - Masked of Area of

Detail - Masked of Area of

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Creating a master for a lexan windshield – done!

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Remember, a couple of posts ago I promised a dutch reader that I would make a master for the Tamiya King Cobra wind screen. Finally I did it. I mixed up some CeranoFix (by Eberhard Faber) and pured it into the windscreen part I had.

The empty lexan wind screen

The empty lexan wind screen

The empty windscreen besides CeramoFix

The empty windscreen besides CeramoFix

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Creating a master for a lexan windshield

Monday, June 8th, 2009

In one of the posts about the Restoration of the Tamiya King Cobra I was asked by one of the readers where I got my windscreen replica. Since I bought it a couple of years ago from an Australian and don’t have the contact details any more, I suggested to my reader that I could create a master for a replica.

Tamiya King Cobra Lexan Windscreen

Tamiya King Cobra Lexan Windscreen - 1

Tamiya King Cobra Lexan Windscreen

Tamiya King Cobra Lexan Windscreen - 2

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Metal finish for model kits

Friday, May 8th, 2009

In quite a lot of model kits you have to deal with a metal finish of one sort or the other. Now, what options are there for the finishes?

  1. Paining with enamel
  2. Painting with acrylic
  3. Foiling

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